Tower Garden

One of Cindy's favorite things to do is to visit other people's gardens, especially if they're vegetable gardeners, to see what they're growing and how they're doing it.

So we were especially happy yesterday to visit our friend and chiropractor, Colleen Murphy, who has a wonderful vegetable garden and also a flock of Americauna chickens.

Colleen and her sister have become local distributors for the Tower Garden, an aeroponic growing system that allows gardeners to grow an amazing amount of vegetation in a very small footprint.

The tower rests on a moveable base on top of a tub that contains water and plant nutrients; a submersible pump circulates the water through the tower to the plant roots.  The flat base swivels so that the tower can be turned easily to ensure that none of the plants are permanently shaded.

Colleen was growing several types of lettuce, arugula, basil, spinach, celery, cilantro, chives and even some quinoa.  All these plants were only about six weeks old, yet they looked fully mature.  You could also grow flowers or just about any plant except root vegetables in these towers, not just vegetables.  Just a thought.

With its small footprint and vertical growing space, this looks like an excellent solution to the problem of how to grow plants in a very small space.  It would also be helpful for people who can't kneel or bend or who just don't like grubbing around in the dirt.

These towers are not cheap, but given how fond Cindy is of salads and leafy greens, I suspect we will probably soon have one of these in our garden.

Contact info: https://cmurphy.towergarden.com.