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Learn To Make A Recycled Pop Bottle Garden Tower

Grow an easy to construct vertical garden tower on your balcony or small space! You can grow an abundance of food vertically using this recycled 2L pop bottle technique. Quickly make these towers with very little prep. All you need (per tower) is: 3 - 10 recycled pop bottles (2 Litre size) 1 utility knife 1 pair of scissors potting soil compost 1 handful of gravel/stones per bottle (optional) 3 - 10 seedlings (use shallow rooted vegetables like lettuce, choi, strawberries, nasturtiums, baby kale, baby beet greens, herbs like sage, mint, basil, cilantro, dill, thyme, chives etc. Don't use root crops like carrots, onions, beets.) Water Sun 1 or 2 bungee cords per tower (optional but recommended) Your tower can potentially stand up by itself if it's standing upright in the corner of a balcony for example. In this video I have a perfect alley scavenged plant shelf but there are many things to attach your tower to. In the thumbnail photos I have used "grid wall" against the side of my building which I got from a shop fittings store in Vancouver called Eddie's Hangups. You can attach your tower to pallets, tree trunks, fences, and like I said if it's a safe spot you can just prop it up against a corner wall. I use bungee cords to secure it against something. You can also use rope, elastics and zip ties although we don't endorse the use of single use plastic. If you have any questions please feel free to comment or contact us at https://refarmers.org Thank you!!! Marie-Pierre Bilodeau Somebody raised a concern about BPA or other toxins leaching into the soil from the plastic. These are made from PETE 1 food safe plastic because they are pop bottles which is BPA free. There are other chemicals in that plastic though and it's still plastic. Also, this plastic is not meant to be exposed to extreme heat (mainly hot liquids poured inside). I prefer using environmentally friendly materials but this is a method for reducing waste using a closed loop system. It demonstrates how we can extend the life of these single use plastics and when we are done with the pop bottle garden, the bottles can be washed and recycled. I didn't feel like leaching was happening and I monitored frequently because I was also concerned about this. In the climate where I grow food, the bottles never get extremely hot. I feel totally safe growing food in the bottles. I have researched other people's experiences growing food in this type of plastic and there have been no formal studies done so no confirmed evidence of toxins in soil due to leaching. If you are worried about it though you should not grow food in this way as stress and worry is what is most detrimental to one's health. *Also, the way I learned to do this was with another two bottles at the top to form a drip irrigation system. I like to keep things as quick and simple as possible so I opted out of the drip irrigation but that makes it quite cool. You can find other resources for the drip irrigation funnel system online.