SOUTH FLORIDA VEGGIE GARDENING

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DIY hydroponic garden. This is my vertical garden. Started with the idea of getting the most production out of a small space. By growing in the vertical styrofoam pots, you insulate the roots of the plant keeping them warm in winter and cool in the summer. By planting in coco coir, you have a completely nutreal media free of alkanlinity and PH; coco coir is necessary when using these virtical pots.

Currently, I have 120 Florida 91 tomato plants (please google Florida 91 to learn more about this remarkable heat and disease resistant tomato developed by the University of Florida). Each plant has produced almost 10 pound of tomatos since the end of December 2008 and are still producing tomatos expected to go through the summer. We have seedlings available to ship to you within the US only. Please email me at tomatogeek@gmail.com and let me know how many you want and I will send you a quote. Seeds are also available. You can go to ebay and bid or buy there or you can just email me at tomatogeek@gmail.com with the amount of seeds you would like; payment is accepted through paypal only at this time. If you want pots or coco coir, I can also send you a quote just let me know how many you would like again at tomatogeek@gmail.com ; this can be shipped worldwide.

Hydroponics is not a new development. Has been around almost since the beginning of history. That wonder of the ancient world known as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon was an exercise in hydroponics and rice has been grown hydroponically for centuries.

Today, hydroponics is used in a variety of settings. Whenever the soil is unavailable, hydroponic gardening seems to appear. Wildcatters offshore oilrigs grow their own tomatoes. Chefs of nuclear submarines hydroponically grow vegetables for use in the meals of the crew there. At present, the plants grown in space stations in orbit, without a single grain of soil.

This video is a summary of equipment and the necessary steps to build your own hydroponic garden. More info and DIY hydroponics instructions can be obtained by placing a comment and leaving your email address and we will contact you; thanks.

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[halleysmommy]

Love your videos... the music, the veggies. It's all just sooo great and really the next best thing to being outside in my garden (It's pouring rain outside now... lol).

I saw my first amazing hydroponic garden when I did a tour of Disney Worlds behind the scenes garden area @ Epicot of all places!!! But it blew my mind. Everything so neat and clean and no bending over to garden. Anyway, since then I've been hooked on the whole notion. :)

[artoliva]

@halleysmommy ; me to the Epcot thing just made me go nuts

[99minerkc]

Nice garden!! Did you go with hydroponics due to the dry conditions and sandy soil here(I live in North Port fl)? I just moved here and want to have a garden but need advice.

[artoliva]

yes; I love the hanging basket gardens; keeps the plants away from pests and are much cleaner and easier on the back..automated means little work; no weeding or guess work. regular nursery pots work well also for most veggie plants; unless you are in Belle Glade..most of the soil in South Florida is very difficult to work

[artoliva]

search seeds on google or other search engine tons of seed companies; your local home garden stores; tons of info on theinternet

[jastrebx]

Hello, I think your garden looks amazing!!!!(jealous here) :-)

I live in Orlando and started my own veggie garden a few months ago, and everything started going well until my tomatoes caught BLIGHT, so I have been dealing with that. However my comment to you, or question is what do you do in order to keep your BELL PEPPERS alive? I purchased 2 of each: green, yellow, orange and red peppers and have replaced them 3 times so far. They seem to just dry out (they get watered). Any suggestions? Thx

[artoliva]

my peppers have done ok; however the yellow and orange not very well; the green to red variety that I have has done well; they slow down in the summer; I gave them peters 20.20.20 fertilizer water soluble

[stephencarlsbad]

thats a dream garden right there!

[farmsteadgarden]

Nice video. What happened to the tomatoes?

[samljer]

that garden is smexy

[ItripledogdareU]

We're not suppose to have a chicken coop, but we built one near our shed underneath some trees then painted it green to blend in with nature. We have a total of 10 chickens and make sure we share our fresh eggs with our neighbors.