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0:00 intro
2:00 Growing Tomatoes and Peppers in Off Grid Garden Tower
3:00 Growing Plants in Plastic Containers from Target
3:50 Growing plants in Mylar Food Bags
6:40 Growing Plants in 5 Gallon Buckets with Mylar Food Bags
8:40 Green Onions In Hydroponic Container
9:35 Hydroponic Nursery Table
11:13 Growing Kale in Dollar Tree Container, Hydroponics
11:55 Passive Hydroponic Cooler for Hydroponics
15:45 $1 WalMart Buckets Painted and Stacked for Hydroponics
16:50 Walk Around My Garden (Quick Tour)
18:20 Growing Plants Vertical in 1 Gallon Mylar Food Bags
21:48 $2 Tower Garden to Grow Food
23:00 Outro
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39 Comments
You rock!
You could drive an Everbilt metal fence stake from Home Depot into the ground to secure the buckets in a high tower. They only cost about $10. It also has notches to latch wire fencing onto, so you could tie the bucket handles tightly to the post with a little wire.
Do you make "tea" from your compost and use that for nutrients ?
I like your approach: growing what you need. I have a 36 sq ft balcony garden in zone 11. It's hard to grow just the right amount of lettuce, cucumber, and tomatoes for a single person.
I have 4 gallon buckets in a DWG system. Grape determinate tomatoes in DWG grew much faster than tomatoes in potting mix, same kind of buckets. But DWG containers had bad root rot, I think from heat. Do you think throwing some ice in nutrient solution, or placing packs of frozen plastic containers will prevent root rot? It's not algae, It's dark brown root rot. Hydrogen peroxide 3% 50 ml for 2 days turned roots white again. What simple, cheap thing could I do to grow sufficient lettuce, cucumbers, and tomatoes in DWG system without root rot? Should I give up hydroponics and do soil only?
Love the content, hate the vertical format.
Experimenting is the way to finding out what works for your situation..I love all your ideas. It has inspired me to think outside the box for starting my peas in different vessels. ❤️
I have a concern about wet feet and yellowing. I started my journey last month and have decent lettuce, but the pak choy and red kale have 'yellowed'…in your experience is this from too much root in water? My nutrients are on point…concerned in NE Fla…(love what you're doing for ppl!)
Mylar bags, I can't wait to see how this comes out. Won't let in light, so great thinking!
Have you tried using geothermal and burying some of the containers to keep them cooler? I'm even thinking you could mulch around the outside of the container to keep the soil around the container cooler too 🤔
Thanks.
I'm wondering if you heated a knife to seal end, cut the mylar bags in half to double growing space would work?
Mike, this is PHENOMENAL, as I think it's just what I needed!!! I want to use the Kratky method outdoors, although I really need something light weight and easy to clean up (& dispose of) in the fall, and I think the idea of using Mylar (&/or recycling sturdy type shipping) 'bags' is potentially perfect. I also love the 'terracotta towers' look and would like to see some in a 'tan-beige' colored clay look as well, (for those who have 'tan-beige' colored siding, etc.). I'm looking forward to seeing 'step by step how to' videoS ASAP PLEASE!!!
Thanks! LOVE the creativity !!! Odd question but here goes. Is there a way to "make" nutrients from like chicken poo or whatever in a SHTF kind of situation? Like when the "virus" hit, shelves were empty of a lot of things.
Looking good Mike! Love your brilliant ideas!!
With the sealed mylar bags, is there going to be a problem with the plant getting enough oxygen from the air-roots?
Very interested in the mylar bag setup
You are amazing! We're still getting snowing days, but hoping soon for that 24hr sunshine. These methods will be excellent and once season is over and the cold comes we'll be able to cut it down to small indoor setup with grow lights. Greens are VERY expensive up here. No Tagets and our Walmart doesn't carry these containers but we can order online (wish we had your pricing) but all's possible if you try!!! thank you for all you do ❤
Hi. I’m still new to your channel. I love everything you do! I’m just looking at all of your different areas, and I’m thinking: he must not live in an earthquake prone area😂
Plus we get A LOT of winds.
For beginners with hydroponics: is there a playlist?
Dirt is expensive, wood is expensive, so I like the idea. Just not sure if it’s going to work in Alaska. Very short growing season. And I can’t grow anything indoors. But I’m always willing to learn.
I really like the terra-cotta painted buckets. A totem pole would be great.
Thanks for taking us along
Interesting concept. I'm curious to see how it handles the heat, I'm in Florida, too. The heat + humidity is wicked, the pool gets up to 90 on its own.
Mike you are a practical creative genius!!
Mike , Mylar use is brilliant because it blocks UV rays keeping roots cool.
I too prefer the wider screen shots instead of the narrow screen shots. Just my preference. I am just blown away from all your experiments. I think that is so smart of you to do. And then to share what you are learning is a great service to mankind. You are a better source of information than many college courses. You really are. My son has a Masters Degree in Agronomy and he is totally in awe by what you are doing. So glad you gave us the whole tour of your place so that we can be motivated to start small ourselves in our own backyards. And front yards! Glad you mentioned the mosquitos and how to avoid them. I was just wondering if that was a problem especially since you are down there in Florida. I think you are such a natural presenter in your videos. Pleasant voice and lots of enthusiasm. I keep going back and watching all your old videos. So much information. Thanks for going into so much detail for us older folks that might be a little slower in getting what you are doing.
I've been watching awhile. I have a very small patio but gardening anyway. Thanks for inspiration.
I bought a bunch of 5 gallon buckets to do the towers you did. But I really like the Mylar bag idea! Thanks for another great video!
Awesome!
Love this mylar idea going to try that out
Great video! The downside I see with the 5 gallon bucket and mylar is stacking. I'd rather go up than out in a small area.
Hello,. Crazy question, is it possible to grow mini roses from the buckets?? Also, I bought a "living"lettuce at my grocery store and once it was gone I put the roots in some water,( without fertilizer for now) hoping it'll grow. Keep the videos coming, I love you and your wife's ideas!! Love and respect from Texas!!
Really brilliant technique… need some help to grow hydro …
I buy 10litre water, it comes in a bag in a box, so that mylar setup caught my eye, wanna see what u did with it
I plan on trying the stacking Buckets on an apartment patio. I don't have much room but I'm going to try growing tomatoes and peppers. Thanks for the info and hopefully it goes well.
How do you deal with high winds?
Thank you for all your informational videos. We started a week ago and are excited. True Leaf Market seed came a couple days ago, so we started those yesterday. Keep teaching Mr. Mike. Thanks!
How did you make the X home for the noodle spout?
Excited to follow along and see how all the experiments work out 🤞🏻😁 I really like the terracotta look on the buckets! For my buckets this year I'm going with a rose gold-copper color 🤗 I got really excited at the thought of customizing colors (can't exactly do anything like that with my cinder block raised bed)
Thank you for all of the Awesome info. I'm just starting out. I'm greatful. I wish I could attorney to join. 🤞 Maybe soon
I cant wait to get my baby plants outside into the sun!
The Mylar bags looks like a great idea👍! Keep us posted!
Just wanted to say, thanks for making these amazing videos. Before I came across your channel, I was dead set on making a hydroponic tower out of PVC pipe and a more complicated setup. When you made bucket tower setup, I couldn't believe how simple it was! I had come across a huge collection of empty buckets for storing food, but after I moved, I didn't have space for them in the house… so they sat outside, empty without a purpose. The setup you proposed seems like a perfect use for them (and saves me the PVC pipe I have).
I am curious as well, could spray painting your buckets a light or dark color do something for temperature control? Say, you've got a cheap greenhouse and plants in those buckets you're trying to overwinter… could a dark bucket maintain a warm enough temperature to keep the greenhouse at a survivable level to overwinter them? Likewise, would lighter colored buckets be a better idea for hotter climates so the plants don't overheat? Just a thought! Thanks for the videos!
Edit: Also, something I noticed when buying seeds lately. Most places selling seeds are really expensive for some reason… but Dollar Tree sells packets for dirt cheap right now. Seeds keep if stored right, so just something I wanted to pass along to anyone interested =)