Tower Garden Love
Okay… so I don’t know if you know this, but I am not a good gardener. Let me rephrase that - trying to be positive… my gardening skills are improving. 😂 I have tried so many times to start my own garden - even taking care of the plants in the house is a challenge. I have tried to be a great plant mom, and the fact of the matter is that I am actively working on getting better. I can do the ones that are hard to kill - the plants that don’t want you to look at them, breathe around them or interact with them at all, I can do those. They thrive.
So when I decided I was going to start growing our own food, my husband looked at me with raised eyebrows. I looked at myself like that too. HA.
Enter THE TOWER GARDEN.
I thought it would be a LOT more complicated than it actually is. You basically pick what seeds you want set up the tower and let it grow (in my Elsa voice) - my tower came with seeds already!
Pick what you want to grow - basically anything that grows vertically
Set up your tower - add water and nutrients with the seedling starter kit
Put those seeds into rock wool cubes until they start to sprout
Put those cubes into the holders - and put those holders into the tower.
DONE. Watch your vertical garden grow!
Y’all when I tell you it is so much fun watching things grow and not having to do the extra work, especially when you are a busy mama and have a toddler running around and work full time! I simply don’t have time to leisurely water a garden, plant seeds, trim, dig, etc. I wish I had the time to learn about growing food in the ground, but right now I just don’t have the time (or energy most days). I still want to grow food for my family and this is how I can do just that! What is also fun and surprising is watching my little one pick spinach or collards right out of the tower and eat it - then say “mmmm” and want more. WHAT toddler likes spinach you ask? Mine does - more to come on baby eats in my next post!
Listen, the tower garden is WORTH it 1000%! Why? Let me share some fun facts with you!
The aeroponic system increases yields up to 30% and grows 3x faster than conventional gardening.
Locally sourced! YOU! You know exactly what you’re getting because you’re the gardener!
You’re also saving water! You’re using 2% of what you’d be using for traditional growing.
Now you know I am going to be real, it does seem expensive BUT there is an option to pay for it over time monthly which I LOVE. Also when you think about it, I would be spending so much more $$ trying to buy the fruits, veggies, herbs and berries, then trying to eat them before they go bad. I can GROW on my own effortlessly. They are also not organic… they’re better than organic and you know exactly what is (and isn’t) going in and on your food.
To me it is worth every penny AND gives me peace of mind. I don’t have to be worried about what chemicals are on the food that I am putting in my body and giving to my daughter. Added benefit? We can hang out as a family while harvesting food from the tower together. Priceless.
Check out the tower here!