Experimenting with growing food indoors

[Justanotherguy]

Our "Garden if Eat'n" provides us with an abundance that we store for the 8 months we cant grow outdoors but I want to expand our growing season but reduce te space it will take up indoors so Ive been developing my own Areoponic Towers. I get the buckets for free from the Grocery store and I designed and 3D printed the ports/holders for the net cups. Then I sources a low cost and low energy usage pump. This is what it looks like so far in early testing.

 

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[Justanotherguy]

Ive built 3 of these towers now. For indoor use, I will use grow lights.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Wow! Just wow! I like the idea of being able to grow something inside. I'm not handy like that - but maybe I can learn. I have done microgreens indoors and they're simple enough. I even put together a small aquaponic set up a couple years ago and grew a couple of tiny tomato plants in it. It wasn't much more than a fun experiment, but it wouldn't be that hard to expand it.

 

[CLSranch]

The most I do is keeping 3 or 4 tomatoes in pots with cages so they're portable and I can bring them with me in the camper from job to job. 4 packs the tub pretty tight 3 is easier to separate the vines when pulling them back out of the tub. Also good for a frost. I've lost plants in 1 early frost a week before heading 12 hrs south, with another month or for the frost down there.

 

[CLSranch]

For indoor use, I will use grow lights.

I was wondering about lighting on the 5 bucket system at over 7' tall.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

The most I do is keeping 3 or 4 tomatoes in pots with cages so they're portable and I can bring them with me in the camper from job to job. 4 packs the tub pretty tight 3 is easier to separate the vines when pulling them back out of the tub. Also good for a frost. I've lost plants in 1 early frost a week before heading 12 hrs south, with another month or for the frost down there.

I bet those are some confused tomato plants!