This is our new project. We both garden. I grow the vegetables in raised beds and Cindy has many flowers mostly in pots on our deck. Some of of our projects such as my hydroponic indoor garden have an educational component and there is always something new to learn when you raise plants.
Our newest project involves a garden tower (see above). This is great for small areas and as you can see it is appropriate for many different kinds of plants (mostly herbs and shorter plants such as lettuce and basil, but some other plants can be grown on the top such as cucumbers and tomatoes).
The tower is intended to be largely a closed system. It is a column of dirt you plant and then water from the top. The water moves down and some collects in a tub at the bottom (you can see the drawer than can be removed to pour water that reaches the bottom back in the top).
In the middle of the garden is a hollow tube for creating compost that feeds the plants in the tower, but can also be removed (using the drawer) for other uses. The composting process makes use of vermiculture (worms) which break down the material added to the tube. You continually added alternating portions of brown material (e.g., leaves, cardboard) with green material (kitchen scraps, etc.) to this tube. Once the organics begin to break down you add worms (red wigglers). We just added 400 worms. The worms used in composting are smaller than the worms you might find in your own garden and prefer a different food source.
The worms speed up the process of composting.
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