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Today we're going to talk about easy and affordable gardening, growing vertical. And we're going to do that with my power towers. Now, ironically, this one doesn't have power, but my first ones did. And in the near future, I'm going to build some that have a fountain pump and it recirculates the water and that.
But to get started, I just want to do these simple ones. They're off grid, no power. And, this is basically for beginners, all the new people, and so everyone can get started. Because this is one of the simplest ways I've found to grow food, and it works for a lot of different things, and it's really easy to set up, and it's really easy to maintain.
Now, if you've got six, eight hundred, a thousand dollars to go out and buy the commercial units, that's cool. Uh, they work good, they're readily available, they're easy to put together, and they grow lots of food. But me, myself, I don't want to spend that much money when I know I can do it myself. So it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're growing your own food.
Now, this is going to be more of a quick start guide. So all the new people can get up to speed and everybody can get out there and get a couple of these towers built and get started growing your own food. Because once you get into the system that I'm going to teach you as far as growing microgreens and baby greens and bigger leafy greens and that, once you get doing that over and over, you're going to get hooked.
And then once you do that, you're going to be looking for more containers and more stuff to build towers out of. So if you're new and you need more detailed instructions on each one of these subjects, I'll be making future videos about it. And if you're not into plastic, you want more non plastic hydroponics, I've got a playlist for that too.
But right here, this is to get everybody up to speed to learn how to put one of these towers together. Now, I love using the five gallon bucket. You don't have to use 5 gallon, you can use 3 gallon, 1 gallon, whatever. That's, it's so versatile, that's what makes it amazing. But, I like the 5 gallon because it's a size that you can handle.
You put 3 1/2 gallons in, it only comes over to a little over 25 pounds. So, it's not that hard to lift up and stack on top of each other. And the added volume that can fit in there, as opposed to like a smaller, cracky container. Makes the water stay cool longer. It's like, if you have a glass of water, and you set it in the sun, something this small heats up really fast, right?
But then the swimming pool takes a lot longer for it to heat up. So, same concept, you've got more liquid, and it's gonna take longer to heat up, and it's gonna keep your roots happier. That's why I like doing it in the morning sun. where it gets a lot of sun in the morning and as it gets hotter in the afternoon you give it shade and That way that added volume will keep it cool in the morning And then when it starts to get hot make sure you got it shaded a little bit So basically you get the buckets and the reason why I went with the buckets too is there's a couple of reasons It doesn't matter what comes in a bucket.
They were designed to stack If restaurants were ordering a bunch of frosting or mayo or pickles or whatever, or, you know, painters and drywall compound everything, these buckets were designed so they could stack up in warehouses. So now we want to take some containers and stack them up. This is the perfect thing.
It was meant to be filled up and stacked so high. Now I want to stack it to heaven. I go three, maybe four at the most with mine, but they'll at least get up that high and not be any problem because that's what they were made for. Now you get the buckets. There's only a couple of things you have to do is drill a couple of holes and it gets you a couple of things to hold your plants.