Hey, what's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of the epic gardening

podcast. My name's Kevin and today I'm going to do a bit of a free-form riff on

vertical hydroponics. So I did a live stream a couple days ago on my Instagram about my experiences growing in a tower garden and if you don't know what a tower garden is it's basically a fancy vertical hydroponic system that you grow in a vertical column and

water is pumped up through the middle of that column and then it drips back down into the reservoir

below.

So it's a single column system

and it has anywhere from 24 to 32 different grow zones

where you can grow a specific plant.

So if you wanted, you could grow 32 basal plants if you wanted to.

But that would be a bit of a waste.

So I kind of want to talk about my approach to growing

vertically in a hydroponic system so my approach is basically this I want to grow things

number one that I would eat makes no point to grow anything that I

wouldn't eat right second I want to grow things that have the highest value as

compared to buying them at the grocery store so things that jump off the top of my head right now are herbs.

Herbs are exceptionally expensive and they come in these stupid little plastic packages at

the grocery store, but if you grow them hydroponically, or really in in any way but hydroponically especially because they grow quickly

you're getting an incredible return so you can buy a couple

leaves of lettuce or a few branches of lettuce at a grocery store for

399 in a little plastic package or like me you can grow pounds of it in a

hydroponic system basically automatically month after month.

So which one makes the most sense to you?

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