Vertical Gardening Made Easy

[HowToDrillAWell]

@nemerabengals The information is available through the website, EasiestGarden(dot)com :)

[joepipe101]

Like the concept.

[GrowSomethingGreen]

Thats pretty cool

[Keyspoet27]

If you added a fish tank to the mix, your system would be even more productive and there would be no need for additional chemicals or nutrients. Aquaponics; not hydroponics.

If you added media such as expanded shale or clay balls into your vertical tubes, then added earthworms to further aerate and keep any anaerobic pockets from forming, it would be more productive still, and 100% organic.

It is simply amazing how productive these systems can be despite the small space used for growing..

[kakumah]

Me encanta!!!! :D

[1000Classics]

What is the success and sustainability for this 'vertical garden'?

[HowToDrillAWell]

@1000Classics Not sure I understand the question; success rate, if you follow the instructions, is 100%. As for sustainability, well, once you build it you don't have to do anything to it except plant it and change fertilizers. If you're looking for something with a smaller footprint and recycled materials, you should check out the barrel garden or container garden in my other videos.

[ImDaveCrazy]

Can someone please explain why you would spend so much money on hydroponics when you can just plant in the ground?? Sorry for being naive, i just don't understand the expense!

[leloodallasmultipass]

@ImDaveCrazy apartment.

[HowToDrillAWell]

@ImDaveCrazy Not everyone has access to soil that is fertile; people who live in apartments don't have the option of just "planting in the ground". And hydroponics is not that expensive, and hydroponic crops produce much faster than soil crops as a rule, with less overall space required.

[nemerabengals]

@HowToDrillAWell soil is great for starting out tho even in small spaces, i could make a vertical garden with 1 gallon soil pots. and reuse the soil if your clean and have fungi and benni additives in the soil. it would be way cheaper and a great start for a new indoor gardener

[HowToDrillAWell]

@nemerabengals Soil is not necessarily cheaper than hydroponics; especially not good quality organic soil.

[albertguti23]

@ImDaveCrazy cos, dont you kno how much is ground ??

[ImDaveCrazy]

@albertguti23 With the cost of setup and running costs you could rent some land... Over here in the UK we have what they call allotments which are government/parish council owned land which is leased to a horticultural society and then subdivided up for individuals. Each plot is around 100ft x 20ft and costs around £30-£60/year (about half a days wage) that includes water and a cost price allotment shop on site and also the social aspect of allotment gardening.. Is this available where you are?

[knowledge88caddy]

@ImDaveCrazy because after the initial cost then it is almost work free besides checking lines and harvesting crops. If a person wants to grow crops with nutrients then you can just plant in the same spot every year without depleting the natural nutrients thus having to by fertilizers and things like that for the soil. No pesticides or things like that or bug worries. Its a win...the nutrients I buy are in concentrate and last for years. Much lusher veggies if you know how to run your system.

[ImDaveCrazy]

@knowledge88caddy thanks for the reply, im learning fast. Its just not mainstream here in the UK yet. thanks again

[nemerabengals]

@ImDaveCrazy hydroponics is cleaner and easyer to manage, dont let anyone tell you other wise. for example what happends ifyou over fert? o there goes a week of time your plants could be growing strrong in hydro.... which could be fixed in like 2 minutes in hydro. and soil has to go somewhere. besides hydro yeilds are 20 to 30 percent more.

[castklearr]

@nemerabengals Taste over maxing the plant for quanity ...thats why tomatoes were found growing in soil......soil is best! don't let any educated idiot tell you different!

[castklearr]

@nemerabengals Like fine wine, a taster can define the elements it grows in and is fertilized with..... hydroponics always taste like chemicals......SOIL IS BEST!

[datzfast]

@castklearr a chicken farmer can stick his finger upa butt hole and tell what county the bird is from

[datzfast]

@ImDaveCrazy in the city dogs and cats shit on the food in the yards or your neighbor that lives down the street will steal your harvest while you are at work. but you didnt think of that? are you a retard.

[ImDaveCrazy]

@datzfast Amazingly I'm not a retard, I just live in a decent place where people don't steal another persons veg. You attitude clearly shows you are the ignorant one, try to stop yourself being despondent and you might see that the world has more in it than your lamentable existence! Oh and it's called a fence, it stops people and animals getting in to "shit" and pillage your crop!! But you didn't think of that!

[TheSoilandGreen]

Dude your head is huge , you must be fn smart.Grow looks great thanks for ideas

[HowToDrillAWell]

The process is outlined in detail on the video available from EasiestGarden (dot) com - Check it out!

[juanelmasguay]

muy bueno



[fondateurgaia]

we can do it with bamboo (free & ecologic) because map of bamboo = map of hunger... all informations about Gaïa Machine on Google !!!

[lovingmygarden]

Great setup! You certainly have a fantastic hydroponics system there! I hope you can post a step-by-step process on how you built your vertical garden. I am awed on how you were able to grow different types of crops with such small space. The vegetables looked really healthy and the flowers are all beautiful. Great job!

[HowToDrillAWell]

@lovingmygarden Thanks :) The step-by-step instructions are available on my website, EasiestGarden (dot) com. Check it out.

[ashtweth]

Hello my friends is this organic like the bio algae vertical farming is or does this use hydroponics am interested in your DVD's

[HowToDrillAWell]

@ashtweth No, this is not organic; it does use chemical fertilizer. Organic hydroponics is considerably more challenging than organic soil-based systems. You can see in my other video two organic soil-based systems that apply easily to growing in a small space with little work.

[ashtweth]

@HowToDrillAWell Hi, that is good news this means you can use a non chemical fertilizer to make it organic is this correct? This could be made into an aquaponics system too very innovative

[HowToDrillAWell]

@ashtweth Yes to both questions; however, I haven't done it so I can't offer much detailed advice :(

[ashtweth]

@HowToDrillAWell your answer is very helpful thanks mate

[beezkneez]

@HowToDrillAWell

Organic hydroponics is not "more challenging" than organic soil based systems. Just because your growing with 100% organic nutes for a hydro system does not mean its harder than using chemical nutes. Preference.. If anything argue that using liquid nutes rather than solid is "harder" lols...

[HowToDrillAWell]

@beezkneez I'm all for using organics if possible, but the ones I tried in my hydroponic systems were significantly more complicated than conventional methods. If you have a brand that's easy to use in a constant flow system, feel free to recommend it. All my soil-based growing systems are organic.

[HiWay69s]

u need to grow vertical protein to eat

[Newell8]

Nice Idea and system. I have a similar concept here on youtube.



[kwakedesigns]

@HowToDrillAWell

touche

[pivotpeeps79]

Very nice set up and design, Pvc, pex, and polly can all be used for water supply depending on application for those that don't know and is safe for growing plants.

Great work

[userss00]

@HowToDrillAWell well said.

[lslavychecker]

I can see future in it special for herbs...

[rcacad]

Im starting an investment group to build neighboorhood house/buildings to do this. Its all a non tiered investment and all profits are % shared by those who= bought into the plan after all the cost analysis was done. The food would be sold at the local farmers market OR out of an old shutdown business. Any takers? Ive seen some incredible terraced indoor hydroponic piping grow rooms that people say allows them to never buy food. What about the whole house or designed new building? is it do able?

[noaa2337]

it would be better if you included a pic of full grown crops. Don't see how this would work for corn and the like.

[HowToDrillAWell]

@noaa2337 It doesn't work for corn or any crops that require a large root system; just lettuce, herbs, flowers, strawberries, etc. If you want to grow those, you're better off with our self-watering container garden system, which you can see in my other videos. That's how I grow mine.

[ItsTime2WakeUp]

Very interesting idea's!!! Thank you for putting this video out there. Some times people who have nothing keeping them busy feel the need to nit pick at everyone else and their ideas.  Very creative!

[smoketweed09]

@HowToDrillAWell lol..and we all know what type of chemicals they put in our drinking water such as sodium fluoride.... and i think you'll find that most modern underground water pipes are not pvc but nylon

[dalirocked]

@mizzruble, you either can't run a hydropinc set up or you just weren't that good at it because you seem to just be bagging out hydroponics, hydropinics is more effective and efficient, and the failure of a crop is the fault of the grower, not the environment, and more to the point, with the way the world is going, hydroponics will be the only way to garden in the future due to soil degredation, pollution and temperature, don't bag something out just because you can't do it.

[wallnatura]

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[boxa888]

@HowToDrillAWell hahah good one!!!!

[geosyntheticsworld]

nice application

[mizzrubble]

looks all like fake plastic plants. haha. soil not hydro is what is truly green. these systems require to much water and chemical nutes. electric pumps temp control. just plant some seeds in the dirt man. and then eat the tasty fruits of your labor. have you ever tasted a hydro strawberry. it tastes like h20.

jah guide

[HowToDrillAWell]

@mizzrubble Planting in the dirt is a fine idea, if you happen to be fortunate enough to have enough dirt to grow in, and dirt that is good enough quality to grow good food in - and the majority of the population doesn't have either one. I have eaten hydroponic strawberries, yes, and ones that were excellent in flavor. Bad produce can be grown in soil or hydroponically, all it takes is unbalanced nutrients and/or not enough of them.

[boxa888]

@HowToDrillAWell u know what, costco the huge conglomerate store claims organic strawberries and they are all grown hydroponically! so gizzelbuble is totally wrong. probabaly works for monsanto! thansk alot howtodrill for giving free information.

[FishyMoe]

@HowToDrillAWell try Aquaponics - its the same but with fish instead of chemicals.

[sewcow]

LOL , leopluridean I work for a company that drills water wells for homes, pvc is the only material used by any well driller I know for the casing of the well! Big 12" irrigation wells are the only application of steel casing I know of these days. Check it out!!

[megarouge2001]

Wow, it's like the Jetsons' garden!

[Espeon1962]

Question for you. For growing strawberries, and perhaps other small root plants (there are many that could be grown in this system) - how are you dealing with pollenation if indoors?

[elitesoldier55]

If its a small operation you can using a artificial pollination using a cotton ball. Larger scale operations can use fans to blow the pollination around. I've even seen a startup that is going to use robotics to pollinate.

[vivotopsis]

@Espeon1962 use a feather. That is what Mendel used.

[HowToDrillAWell]

We don't do anything special. We have our greenhouse open a lot and so bugs find their way in, plus we have a fan on that blows the blossoms around. Tomatoes don't grow in this system, (but do in our other video, self-watering container garden) And for those you just shake the vine. Root crops, and greens need no pollination.

[Dave7689]

hes growing flowers vertically, hydroponically, but still flowers.

[HowToDrillAWell]

Yes, strawberries, flowers, and lettuce grow best in these systems because of their small root systems. For larger rooted plants we have barrel garden video that will be released shortly, and our container garden system which is already released works well for all the larger rooted plants.

[magprob]

By the way, look at my videos and you will see that I am really into hydroponics now.

I have expanded a bit since I bought these plans! Once you get hooked, you will never be the same!

I know it is the best way to grow food. Especially in the winter up here in the great white north.

[magprob]

I bought these plans a year or two back. Great plans that are easy to follow. Every step in detail. I use one of these systems outside in the summer with a solar powered pond pump. Costs zero run except for nutes and seeds. The best thing is that the lettuce is really clean and delicious!

These plans gave me ideas and knowledge for other systems of my own design. Well worth the price. Thank you HowToDrillAWell.

[useopenstupid]

which method does this employ? is it ebb & flow or aeroponic / fogger?? thanks

[HowToDrillAWell]

Neither, it is a constant flow system. A pump runs water past the plants at all times. Some customers have set it up on a timer to run every fifteen minutes, and that works fine too.

[DominickBlack]

PCV is poison. Poison is getting into your food via it I assure you.

[HowToDrillAWell]

Just about every water company in every city in every country in the world runs water through PVC pipe. Miles, perhaps hundreds of miles, of PVC pipe separate you from your water supply. Many homes run all their water through PVC lines. So if it's poison... you're bathing, washing your clothes and probably drinking hundreds of times more of it than could possibly be absorbed through the plant.

[copperwrap]

@HowToDrillAWell

PVC is used for drain, waste and vent not for potable water. The plastic line used for potable water is CPVC and PEX tubing. PVC does leach chloride into the water. Hence the abbreviation PolyVinyl chloride (over 57% chloride). It is also bad for the environment having the highest density of hydrocarbon polymers than other plastics. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[HowToDrillAWell]

Sorry, but I've plumbed many houses and I know that the public water company runs 2" PVC pipe to carry all the water to houses in this area. The CPVC stands for "Chlorinated Poly-Vinyl-Chloride" and so if CPVC is acceptable, so is PVC.

The only difference being that CPVC handles heat better and so it is used for hot water. Type in "PVC" and "potable water" into Google and you'll see it is approved for potable water everywhere.

[HowToDrillAWell]

From Wikipedia "In the United States and Canada, PVC pipes account for the largest majority of pipe materials used in buried municipal applications for DRINKING WATER distribution and wastewater mains."

[datzfast]

funny you should say that because befor the water gets to you CPVC and PEX it spent days getting there in PVC asshole.

[leopluridean]

Not necessarily true or false. Some of us have wells and don't rely on city water.

[beachnative420]

What have you been smoking? The only reason PVC is used over metal or clay is it's durability. Copper in your house does have some antimicrobial abilities but in todays water plants it's not needed. The romans used silver coins in their baths to help do the same thing...What do you thing colodial silver is? Silver suspended in water. Silver and copper kill viruses by not allowing the absorbtion of oxygen in the DNA.

PVC is safe and has been for years!

[MsKatieKats]

That's cool Magog1138.

[magog1138]

I wish I had been as wealthy as Carnegie, except instead of giving it away to charities and dying penniless as he did (and it's very noble that he did do that) today I would invest all the billions and billions into vertical farming (enormous, towering skyscrapers of food) and solar islands (enormous solar cells in the middle of the ocean providing abundant, cheap energy worldwide) it would benefit the poor, and everyone world wide for generations.

[gumby511]

How would you get the power from the middle of the ocean to the people?

[aetherflow]

@gumby511 you would get it with wireless power transmission. search" nikola tesla wardenclyffe tower"

[hablerz]

@magog1138 If u gave away free food and electricity u would probably die in a mysterious car accident.

[SniperViper1000]

@magog1138 If your planning to put solar plants in the middle of an ocean IT WILL NOT BE CHEAP!

Getting it is free, however transporting it down a building is expensive as it is.

[alexdc84]

@SniperViper1000 You are retarded, solar cells in the middle of the ocean are used for harnessing energy within the current, not growing plants. Use some common sense people..

[3rdFS]

@magog1138 You don't need the ocean (too much cost)..Deserts are more than enough , free solar energy for all humanity..But the question is why haven't they done it yet? My opinion : CAUSE our leaders don't give a damn about free food or free energy..They only want absolute control of the product called human resources throught their vital needs(food-water-energy)..sad but true

[SusanFlemingZack]

@magog1138 Carnegie was a terrible boss, a greedy guilt ridden man who gave away only a portion of his money. If you read the history of Carnegies Steel Mill ie: Pittsburgh/Braddock PA those men worked 7 days a week 12 hours per day for little pay living in Carnegies housing eating Carnegies grub and he charged them outrageous rent for horrible living conditions and the food sources in the area were also under his control. Do the great Labor strikes mean nothing to you! All against Carnegie!

[gumby511]

@magog1138 You can build all the solar islands you want in the middle of the ocean but it would be useless because you cant transport the energy to the cities. 

[TOSViolator]

@magog1138

Solar panels in the ocean? How are you going to get it to the mainland? I don't think you are Tesla, who could transmit energy worldwide with minimal loss.

[777ech]

@magog1138 Listen, prol, just you try it and I'll put you in prison or even kill you. Thank you, Big Brother

[MrIzzyDizzy]

@magog1138 very zeitgeist movement like of you -

[AMilitantAgnostic]

@magog1138 See the Gates foundation... maybe not the causes you want but still doing some very good things.

[VictorLepanto]

@magog1138: There is nothing cheap about solar energy. Solar power will never be economically viable. Solar power is only a viable energy option in space, b/c the Earth atmosphere & electormagnetic field diverts most of the Sun's energy. Good thing for us as we'd all get cancer ottherwise, but it makes solar energy on the Earth impractical. If some means of gathering solar energy in space & then transmitting it to the ground were possible, that might work.

[leloodallasmultipass]

@VictorLepanto there are several new, more efficient converters of solar energy that will be released in the next couple of years. not sure where you get the "never" attitude, but do you really think we have reached the pinnacle of technology already? and do you also think we have arrived at the highest price that oil will ever reach? has it occurred to you what would happen if oil ended up costing more than solar, even if solar prices never went down? and coal, is it getting ever cheaper?

[VictorLepanto]

@leloodallasmultipass: I get never from a little something we call the laws of physics. It is impossible to get more out of a system then you put in. That is leaving aside the problem of cloud cover. The atmosphere & electromagnetic field around the Earth stops most of the Sun's energy from even reaching the surface. Unless we can get a cost effecive system of solar collectors in orbit, solar energy will always be a political pretense

[leloodallasmultipass]

@VictorLepanto NO ONE has ever said that solar power was based on extracting the SAME level of energy that comes from the sun and converting it (with no loss) to electricity. according to someone on the internet, we receive more energy in one hour from the sun than we use in a year. 8765 hours in a year. see if you can do that math... we don't need 1:1 efficiency AT ALL. We don't even need 1% efficiency! jesus dude, what the hell do you think the question is, anyway?

[dj4monie]

@leloodallasmultipass There is almost no point in arguing with people like this, they don't want to share the earth with you, bottom line. Current edge panels are 18% efficiency, that's 4% higher than most high quality panels. This was shown YESTERDAY on This New House on HGTV. So many people are afraid of living in an economy that based on sharing the knowledge, technology and resources of the earth, it would be much harder to use class and racism to get ahead...

[dj4monie]

@VictorLepanto Geo-Thermal is the most efficient form of renewable energy, look it up on Wikipedia. Done correctly it could provide all the power for the entire earth two times over. Solar Power is not cheap, but its still within range of most people if they stop buying more house than they need and cars to impress their neighbors with. For the price of a 2011 C-Class Benz, most people can get enough solar power to give them all the power they would need on a daily basis.

[VictorLepanto]

@dj4monie: Solar power makes absolutely no sense economically. & it is arrogant to talk about more house then someone needs. If it makes no sense economically it makes no sense environmentally as it would necessarily require more energy.

[dj4monie]

@VictorLepanto So we half agree. I live in Southern California, its sunny most of the time, no reason not to take advantage of it. Right now Natural Gas is cheap because there's so much of it. That said, when demand foe NG goes up, so will the price. For heating water, dyer and burners its fine. To run other stuff? Not practical and I plan on building a home no more than 1500sq ft will make all its own power, reasonable cost.

[ProtoBleph]

@VictorLepanto There are these awesome things called batteries.

Big huge 120 lb batteries, 12 of them will last a week with no input in the average house and they charge while you're at work. In the event of a blizzard or other horrid weather, most controllers accept generators to charge the batteries, some can even turn the generator on without you have to go out in the cold. That generator may be gasoline, diesel (rare), or propane.

Many options and configurations. Absolutely == fallacy.

[VictorLepanto]

@ProtoBleph: I can see you've never worked w/ battery powered vehicles. If you had you'd never have posted such a thing. People who know anything about batteries thinks they make any sense economically. The illusion of "green energy" is just a self indulgence for those who have enough money to waste on such do-good fantasies. Batteries are toxic. They are inefficient & far more energy must be put into them then can ever be gotten out of them. They lose efficiency over time & must be replaced.

[ProtoBleph]

@VictorLepanto A vehicle is a system of continue use. A home is not, other than phantom loads (clocks).

The perk to batteries is ... yes ecologically they're not beneficial ... but where are the batteries made? Not here. I'm a prick, I can afford the battery, it's cheaper than the elec. bill over time, and someone else suffers the industrial consequences.

It's a matter of approach. Allegorically (maybe literally), I would rather kill a man and take his food, than forage for my own. PHA study?

[VictorLepanto]

@ProtoBleph: A battery is only useful for putting out energy. In any context, their deficiencies remain the same. The warehouse where I worked was enclosed & so battery powered forklifts were preferable b/c of no exhaust. Otherwise they're a nuisance. As the old song has it, we are the world. As John Donne said, "No man is an island." industrial waste affects the whole world, & as batteries are inefficient @ storing energy they increase costs.

[dj4monie]

@magog1138 Is this already in the planning stages in many large cities around the world. When fuel is $9 gallon as it is in many parts of Europe and since it takes to long to build public transportation, you'll need an affordable source of food that's cheap to transport. In California most fruits and veggies travels about 100-150 to get to Los Angeles. In the future that won't be profitable, it will have to be closer.

[ugotpimp]

I love charity and voluntering but this very bright man with great ideas deserves MONEY for his awesome work.

Trust me, if you follow these plans thru, your initial investment will be offset by your future bounty of wonderful organic fruits and vegetables.

[B3T0516]

i wonder if were at a slight tilt (10-15 degrees) , it might allow more direct sunlight to the lower plants. i live in venezuela so even if it were facing south, the sun might not be at the best possible angle.

[HowToDrillAWell]

Good idea; but for that sort of application, I'd just go all the way horizontal like the lettuce garden is, if you have the space. It's more efficient that way.

[ki09ki8998ik]

you are smart

you deserve a million customers

[GetMeThere1]

Looks like a REALLY COOL idea!

[jes166]

GREAT WORK!!!!!

[thwangy]

Just being honest here, you should think about the humanity of selling a system that could possibly save a lot of peoples lives! For instance, there is a gentleman who created a ionic water purification system, who opted to give the technology to non profit and third worlds. This is similar in the same sense. Maybe you could offer the Schematics for free and then charge for the DVD? I don't know, I was just bummed to see you only offering it for "SALE"!

[HowToDrillAWell]

I do work with non-profit groups to provide them with instructions at times, and recently have been in discussions with a company to go to Senegal, Africa, and demonstrate and instruct in the gardening systems we have. That said, we have a lot of time and many mistakes invested in developing these ideas into viable systems, and I'm sure you understand we must make a living :)

[serpensphile]

Dude.....let this guy get the money he deserves for his hard work, his idea, his time and all the money he put into this. Why don't you work for free?

[amandaa741258]

Coolest idea. May I suggest a "contact us" spot on the webshop. I'm interested to know what you can go with the vertical garden.

[kracker740]

that's rad, i designed something like that in my head, but i'm novice with pumps. :(