I have a complete black thumb. It's a running joke in my family that the only thing I can keep alive is my aloe plant. A friend gave me a vine-type house plant and I swore I would keep it alive. My mom has said multiple times it's almost impossible to kill. It's still alive! Barely... but only because my Roomba pulled it down and dragged it around the house one day. I can't be held completely accountable for what my Roomba did! There was dirt everywhere! It was like a plant murder scene!
I tried a vegetable garden a couple of times and never had anything survive. NEVER! The rabbits, the bugs, or me forgetting to water in the Oklahoma heat always got the better of it. I did keep a jalapeño plant alive once, but I think it was a fluke. Maybe they like to be ignored? Hard to tell. LOL.
So I finally convinced Micheal to let me get a Tower Garden, as long as he helped me. We bought it in the spring of 2020. He adds the nutrients and checks the pH. I prune and "talk" to the plants. It's working!
That spring and summer I had basil galore and probably about 20 tomatoes on one plant, and they kept coming as I picked them! The small tomato plants did way better than I expected. The larger ones had maybe 2 tomatoes each, so I will stick with small ones. We've eaten microgreens until our hearts were content, and a little spinach. We started harvesting many plants within a month of planting.
That fall I cleaned everything out and ordered seedlings. I kept the rosemary and one basil plant and they were still producing in January. It's so cool that it's freezing outside and my Tower Garden is sitting in the kitchen growing my produce!
The facts
- It takes a little work, but I'd rather do that than pull weeds in the summer heat any day. Plus, winter growing is just fun!
- There are two towers. The Home comes with lights and is smaller, so it's better for inside. The Flex has a bigger base so it won't blow over, and you can add lights to bring it inside.
- You have to maintain a good pH. The system comes with everything to help you do that.
- You have to keep it full of water. You wait until it's about half empty to refill, so it's not a constant job.
- It comes with a timer for the lights and water, so you can set it and forget it.
- Grow minerals come with the system and you can order more. Eight months in I still hadn't run out.
