Window Hydroponic Gardens

By Vanessa Richins

It’s likely that you’ve heard about hydroponic gardens.

These allow people to grow plants without soil.

However, you might have thought that would be difficult to implement as an urban gardener.

Today, though, I discovered some pretty impressive plans for making your own hydroponic garden inside a sunny window. I found it on LifeHacker, who gave a link to the creators, WindowFarms. Their website announces that “Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials.”

I declare: Window Farms are awesome.

As I opened the PDF instructions that were available on their site, the first thing I noticed were all of the plastic bottles. The how-to calls for 1.5 liter water bottles. What a fantastic way to Read the rest of this entry »