Hi everyone!
Just recently I stumbled upon this website www.windowfarms.org, and was instantly taken with them due to my lack of growing area and living in a apartment in a colder climate. The website has a DIY section where they tell you what materials you'll need and you can build your own Windowfarm from recycled materials. To try it out I made a smaller version of a Windowfarm, a 1 column version using 16.9 FL OZ bottles of water to use for my herbs and such. The Windowfarm is great and is working awesomely
Just recently the site announced they'd be making a much more official looking Windowfarms (what you see on the first page of the site now) and it will be funded very soon so anyone can purchase the Windowfarm you see on that page. The Windowfarms they have displayed show different plants growing in them, and 2 of the plants are pepper plants!
So my question is, has anyone seen this site yet, has used a Windowfarm, and has tried it to produce pepper plants?
I realize if you did grow peppers this way you'll have very small plants and it probably wont do well for some varieties, but this could be a really great thing for new pepper growers who would like to get their hands a bit into hydroponics and are intimidated by them or for people who have a very busy lifestyle where it's hard for them to constantly look after their plants.
I'm hoping to soon get a official Windowfarm myself and I'll definitely be trying to grow some pepper plants in it and if there hasn't been any experience with them on here yet I'll create a report on how well they'll work... but that won't be until March of 2012 when they send out the new Windowfarms I think this could potentially be a great idea for peppers, what do you guys think?
Just recently I stumbled upon this website www.windowfarms.org, and was instantly taken with them due to my lack of growing area and living in a apartment in a colder climate. The website has a DIY section where they tell you what materials you'll need and you can build your own Windowfarm from recycled materials. To try it out I made a smaller version of a Windowfarm, a 1 column version using 16.9 FL OZ bottles of water to use for my herbs and such. The Windowfarm is great and is working awesomely
Just recently the site announced they'd be making a much more official looking Windowfarms (what you see on the first page of the site now) and it will be funded very soon so anyone can purchase the Windowfarm you see on that page. The Windowfarms they have displayed show different plants growing in them, and 2 of the plants are pepper plants!
So my question is, has anyone seen this site yet, has used a Windowfarm, and has tried it to produce pepper plants?
I realize if you did grow peppers this way you'll have very small plants and it probably wont do well for some varieties, but this could be a really great thing for new pepper growers who would like to get their hands a bit into hydroponics and are intimidated by them or for people who have a very busy lifestyle where it's hard for them to constantly look after their plants.
I'm hoping to soon get a official Windowfarm myself and I'll definitely be trying to grow some pepper plants in it and if there hasn't been any experience with them on here yet I'll create a report on how well they'll work... but that won't be until March of 2012 when they send out the new Windowfarms I think this could potentially be a great idea for peppers, what do you guys think?