Please be sure to subscribe to Naztazia’s channel! This is a how-to video on growing fruits and vegetables in containers and planters instead of a traditional in-ground garden. Also known as container gardens, container gardening and urban gardening. These types of gardens work great for those with limited space or have no yard. Grow your vegetables, fruits and herbs on your balcony, patio or driveway.
John from www.growingyourgreens.com goes on a field trip to the Chicago O’hare Airport to share with you the World’s First Aeroponic Vegetable Garden at an Airport. In this episode, you will learn how ORD airport is taking a leadership approach in sustainability as well as learn how they are feeding 10000+ people a year when growing 1100 crops at one time in their Vertical Tower Aeroponic Garden. After watching this eposide, hopefully you realize, if they can grow food in the 2nd busiest airport in the USA, you can easily grow food at home.
Somehow I? missed this comment you made over a year ago! Yep you are right – it was 98 degrees the day I filmed this. That is what you meant, right ?
Sorry for? the delay in response! That’s great – raised beds are also wonderful for gardening. Helps keeps those rabbits somewhat out of the garden
Thanks for letting us know about your channel too!
That’s an awesome idea!!! You are recycling and reusing… and planting your own food. Doesn’t get much better than that?
thanks for this donna. i have started my own container garden. but i’m getting my containers for free. i got mine from wendy’s. they have white 5 gallon containers for pickles that? they just throw away after using the pickles.
hey, i just started growing veggies in my backyard in raised beds and pots. It works great. I was amazed at the harvest from so? few plants. please take a look at my channel and please subscribe. thanks!
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Im gonna? start gardening so excited!
That is? what I do to the tubs for my garden. everytime i get a new tub, cut small holes on the sides close to the bottom for drainage
i really? like this. good recommendations.
I like plants, thanks? for the recommendation..
Thanks so much, great video, I usually use miracle gro as well, great for? lettuce especially!
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I completely agree with you – they are one of the best sizes to do? container gardening in for many plants. Thanks for stopping by!
I like your video, a lot of nice tips, But man, you put Miracle grow potting soil in the container. Monsanto from Marysville,? Ohio makes that crap. As much as people may like it and plants grow superb in it , I would think a nice mix of regular dirt and compost / or just straight compost would be better than the Miracle grow stuff.
I’m not really keen on GM foods/organisms. ? In my own garden I try to use heirloom seeds and plants that have been passed down through the generations from my local farmers and family. For example the garlic bulbs given to me from my uncle come from plants that can trace their lineage to over 80+ years. Realistically in the supermarket though, we can’t be sure what’s GMO vs. not. Probably why I like growing food in my own garden
Hmmm? How do you feel about GMO’s?
donna is? cute
Better boy and Jet star are my 2 fav tomato varieties
I plant 2 plants per container & they grow about 4-5 ft tall (including the container). I use those wire cages to support them and keep them straight as they grow. I average 20-30 tomatoes per plant (40-60 per pot). I pick the tomatoes off as soon as they turn red and are still firm and not overripe – regardless if it’s just 1 or 15 at a time. I position the container in my yard that gets maximum view of the sun -? 6-7 hours.
How many hours of direct sunlight do they need to grow? have you grown better boy tomatoes? If you have, how tall did they grow? And are you supposed to harvest all the tomatoes on a plant at once or only a few at a time? There was an article saying if you harvest a few tomatoes at a time they will produce more. on average, how many tomatoes per plant did you get?? would 10 tomatoes per plant be realistic?
How many hours of direct sunlight do they need to grow? have you grown better boy tomatoes? If you have, how tall did they grow? And are you supposed to harvest all the tomatoes on a plant at once or only a few at a time? There was an article saying if you harvest? a few tomatoes at a time they will produce more. on average, how many tomatoes per plant did you get? would 10 tomatoes per plant be realistic?
I can only speak for ones native to my area (PA). They produce fruit 60 days after transplant regardless of light cycle. I plant end of May (after frost) & they’ll produce fruit beg of Aug. They like direct sunlight, but we had a cloudy rainy summer one time, and I still got nice fruit. The blooms don’t like temp extremes (cold nites/scorching hot days), but they do love companion plants? next to them like marigolds, onions and basil. But once frost hits in Oct, the plant dies.
do tamatoes bloom on their own? or does it require a change in the light cycle? for example, some plants have vegatative growth in the spring and summer during the long days of sun, then? they bloom in the fall when the days are shorter. (longer dark cycle triggers some plants to bloom)
mmmmm potting mix. I eats potting mix? for breakfast with a glass of orange juice,keeps me goin all day.
wow ,, I would never imagined you could grow plants? in pots ,,thank you so much !!!!
they should just hang the bulbs verticly w/o the hoods at like 5ft high (or half the height of those towers)? ,
right? and lights being 10(?)ft away from the plants at the very bottom? and using hps for leafy greens? hps are better for flowering plants, they should b using metal halide, i think just a regular raised beds with? a lot less lamps would give better results but hey, its a start, its something cool for people to c and get educated a little
I agree, BUT, it is a positive step in? the right direction. Thousands of people walk through this airport daily. It is at least, educating people and showing that Aquaculture/permaculture is finally becoming main stream.
since they spent thousands? they could have used leds.
why not just? put green houses on the roof of the air port and use the sun light and you can plant wayyyy more
the airport has so much space. It can? easily grow these salad greens outside without consuming so much electricity.
YOU HAVE? ON MAKEUP?
I have three of these towers and they are grown outside using the sun. The towers are designed to be used outside. They do have a small pump that runs on very little? electricity (as much as a string of Christmas lights). They use 5% of the water of a traditional ground garden. As for the taste–absolutely fantastic!! The nutrients are organic earth based minerals. There’s a greenhouse in Eustis, FL that uses these towers and grows thousands of plants.
Hi John … do you think you can taste a difference? between food grown outside in the ground, or in barrels or hydroponically ? So you know if they used the right nutrient mix if they could duplicate organic home gardening on a massive level like this or not?
Something just bugs me about so much energy being used like this. If the world was to get used to doing this and had to expand we would surely either need to pump more oil or use nuclear and I’m not sure that is good.
Seems like a good idea if it were powered by a renewable, less energy, resource & financially consumptive method. But it seems likely the energy use of the? lights is more polluting, financially costly & resource draining than is ecologically healthy or profitable financally either.?
what about the aleged chem trails then ,wots the story a great careing airport great image looking after the people?
The amount of energy taken to run all those HPS lights is highly inefficient. To run all those lights off solar would take hundreds of panels. All of that energy to get a few salad greens? There is nothing “green” or environmentally friendly about this setup.
But it does look cool.?
Ah, I see what you mean. My system is much less high tech. I have my towers outside (in the sun) and the? electricity is just used to run the pump. I would love to show my set-up. Click on my name and you’ll see a video of my towers.
I cannot debate you on your energy usage because I do not know of your setup.
The? setup that I responded to looked to be using 400w-1000w HPS lights, at least 10 of them. Even on the low end, that would be one big XMAS tree.
If you are using less than 500w for your tower, that would be semi-efficient.
Care to show your setup? Because I am interested in building a homemade tower for indoor growing.
I have three of these towers on my back porch and I feed my family with the produce that I grow? in a 5′x10′ space! I have 88 plants. Click my name to see a video of my garden
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My towers use the same amount of electricity as a string of Christmas lights and 5=10% of the water of? a ground garden!
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This? is certainly the way a sustainable future will go! More please!
Mechanicalbull…how do u figure. The water that i use can be re-used. So my only requirements are ferts and an air pump. If ur going off grid u can get solar panels that will last years. So in 1/4 the space i can grow the same amount as soil with? less water usage.
Very, very? cool looking but uses too much energy!
Hi John, thanks for all the videos, I have a quick question. I am a strong believer of rock dust and trace minerals but? I am a beginner, what is the soil to rock dust ratio you use?
When I saw the words ‘tower garden’ and ‘airport,’ I immediately assumed that they were growing a? humongous garden vertically around one of the air traffic control towers. Wouldn’t that be AWESOME?
very? interesting
Hey John check out my? self watering grow barrels.