Create your own hydroponic window farm
Jul 12, 2010 cheap, hydroponics, recycle
If I didn’t have a big house blocking my southern exposed window, otherwise I would have completely tried this myself. The basic idea is to take come recycled plastic bottles, use an air pump and some tubing to create an air water pump to push the nutrients to the top and gravity takes care of the rest.
The great part of this is that it is an open design community making and sharing new innovations as they are discovered. Here are the complete instructions of the most recent (version 3) of their system. They also offer a complete kit, you just have to provide the recycled bottles.
Via LifeHacker [via Window Farms]
July 13th, 2010 at 2:18 PM
I came across this website a few months ago and LOVED the idea! Even though we have cold-frames I thinking of trying it out just because it looks so cool.
July 15th, 2010 at 10:20 PM
This is cool, but I so don’t have the room for this!
July 19th, 2010 at 6:12 PM
This is an amazing idea. I am about to move to a house where I will have full access to sunny windows and plenty of garage space for trying out some of your other indoor growing projects. Thanks for the site
November 30th, 2010 at 1:00 PM
[...] you can network with other “window farmers” as you learn to grow your own. You can also build your own window farm hydroponic system from recycled plastic [...]
July 10th, 2011 at 1:10 PM
I would like to read your instructions for the hydroponic window garden, however the top of the instructions are blocked by the green title sections at the top of all the pages.
July 15th, 2011 at 12:21 AM
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November 28th, 2011 at 7:07 AM
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December 5th, 2011 at 6:33 AM
This is a brilliant idea, might have to attempt it myself one day
December 10th, 2011 at 2:38 PM
[...] Via LifeHacker [via Window Farms ] The great part of this is that it is an open design community making and sharing new innovations as they are discovered. Here are the complete instructions of the most recent (version 3) of their system. They also offer a complete kit , you just have to provide the recycled bottles. If I didn’t have a big house blocking my southern exposed window, otherwise I would have completely tried this myself. The basic idea is to take come recycled plastic bottles, use an air pump and some tubing to create an air water pump to push the nutrients to the top and gravity takes care of the rest. Create your own hydroponic window farm [...]
January 2nd, 2012 at 2:16 PM
Hey guys – epic stuff – ideal for our conservatory here in sunny (not) Scotland. Thanks for sharing – OneLovexx