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 Greenvalley
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 Windowfarm 
#15526563 - 12/16/11 04:37 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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If this is the wrong forum feel free to move it.
So here it is, my makeshift windowfarm
With some free empty milk cartons from work
Cut the top off, poke 8 holes on the sides(one near the top one near the bottom of each corner)
then thread some hemp through four holes on the bottom of the carton for drainage.
repeat until you fill your window.
do this for as many milk cartons as you wish and here is your finished product.
 
now all that's left is a water pump(optional), dirt, and whatever plant you want.
Thank you http://our.windowfarms.org/tag/officialhow-tos/ for the inspiration
some examples of others
A ted talk by the lady that started it
http://www.ted.com/talks/britta_riley_a_garden_in_my_apartment.html
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Greenvalley
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ill post some updates when I get to planting something in it 
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audiophoenix
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I just started some goji berries in planters similar to that a few months back.
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 p_walter
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That's pretty badass, I've never seen that kind of set-up before. Are you planning on using dirt and watering manually?
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Nice man, I was thinking of planting some HBWR on the top so the vines could wrap around the strings as it grows.
Im not going to hook up any water pump with my current living situation it would be too many wires and too much hassle so its all going to be manual, which is what I want so im more active in my hobby's. But in the future I plan on having these things line my windows with fully automatic watering.
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DrCrumbs
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Woah that looks so cool I wanna make a set of those!
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When I was in Costa Rica many years ago, there was a guy taking the large plastic soda bottles and cutting holes in the sides for plants. He would then spray them with lacquer or some adhesive and roll them in sand. They would come out looking like old jugs covered in sand.
He would then hang them with jute and fill them up with soil and put plants in them..
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Greenvalley
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golfin_ernie said:
When I was in Costa Rica many years ago, there was a guy taking the large plastic soda bottles and cutting holes in the sides for plants. He would then spray them with lacquer or some adhesive and roll them in sand. They would come out looking like old jugs covered in sand.
He would then hang them with jute and fill them up with soil and put plants in them..
what a great idea, I was wondering how to make them more decorative that just painting and drawing on them, im going to braid the hemp on the next ones I make
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Beefy1
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I've seen these growing strawberries hydroponically.
If I had a window that didn't face north I'd set one up myself.
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Wise Toad
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 Re: Windowfarm [Re: Beefy1]
#15576108 - 12/27/11 01:02 AM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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very cool
Im curious to see what all you can grow with this, HBWR would be really cool, I wonder if this would work for salvia
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im going to use one of them for ethnobotanicals, HBWR and such. and one just for pepers or cherry tomatoes.
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mirrors...
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Re: Windowfarm [Re: trigger]
#15742619 - 01/31/12 02:46 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Just germinated some HBWR seeds so im gonna be planting soon with my spent mushroom compost trays as the soil.
Updates to come
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Updates?
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Re: Windowfarm [Re: Pilgrim]
#15847163 - 02/22/12 02:05 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Well I got 5 out of the 8 seeds to sprout but I left for a week leaving my room mate in charge of watering, which he neglected to do so im frantically watching to see if any of them will even slightly recover.
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Beanhead
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I'm going to try this out 
I wish I could afford the cost of lamps so I could grow all year around...
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Les femmes.
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Et mon sourire noyé par les pleurs
Je danse mais j'hésite encore...
Des larmes.
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Greenvalley
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the newly germinated HBWR are sprouting and looking beautiful! and just the other day I noticed some little shroom pins in the plnaters because I used a spend tray as potting soil.
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