Growing a Greener World Episode 1205 - New Ways of Growing Our Favorite Vegetables

[@drcorson]

Thank you for this beautiful episode. Our family started growing with Tower Gardens 12 years ago - Wonderful! 💚

[@ggwtv]

Wonderful! So glad you liked it. Thank you.

[@truthbetold8915]

Brie you're so awesome. Thank you for your passion of growing and propagating more plants for the world.

[@takejuice]

I totally agree!! Every home should have a Tower Garden! I love, love, love mine!!

[@annryals7285]

Absolutely loved this video. Love Brie's innovation. A lot f great information.

[@Jo-xf4nt]

Hey, I have a 100 gal pond with gold fish that are too big for the bull frogs also living here. I have a backup solar in case I lose electricity again so I don't lose my fish. Because of this video I will now try growing vegetables as well. Thank you for your insight.

[@YayaHortus]

Soo much to learn about gardening, I love it! Thank you for sharing this.. Brie is a superwoman, I didn’t know anything about planting until I started following her, ( and this show of course) she’s fun to watch when it comes to gardening.

[@nonnoziccardy4353]

Interesting video, after surviving cancer 8 years ago I started growing hydroponically. I have used the Dutch bucket system, NFT system, Kratky, and Tower Garden. All work really well, however I don’t like the synthetic growing! Aquaponics is a good system, however is very dependent on using an organic fish food,otherwise you will be eating vegetables that are not clean. I now have sold all of my systems and grow exclusively in soil. I think a market garden style is best and can be adapted to many situations. Raised garden beds too make for a successful garden. Bottom line is soil and organic matter is what nature intended. There is a place for hydroponics, I suggest if you have the opportunity to grow in soil, then grow in soil! Thank you again for a professional video and alternative growing methods. Looking forward to the next video!

[@aprilm9551]

I agree, soil is the best, and what nature intended.

[@JH-ms3ny]

Hydroponics needs not to be the sole method of growing, but merely another tool in the arsenal. I maintain multiple in-ground garden beds here in my native clay soil here, but I also utilize hydroponics as necessary. I grow peppers in both Kratky and Dutch bucket setups with much better success than I ever had in my garden, Alpine strawberries in Kratky buckets on my porch, and leafy greens (lettuce, spinach, arugula, and kale) indoors in my basement using a Kratky tote, for easy salads year-round. Both have their advantages, and I would never want to be limited to just one growing method.

[@Redandranger]

Nature didn't intend anything --- certainly not most of what we're growing for food in our gardens. Don't agree? Leave your garden alone and see how it ends up ...... no watering or weeding etc "as nature intended".

[@olgabykov2630]

Amen to that!

[@TheThriftedPlanter]

I like all of these system options

[@annwright1453]

Is there a way to do hydroponics without plastic. I would love to utilize this system of growing, however, we try not to ever grow plants for consumption in plastic.

[@JH-ms3ny]

If you have access to stainless steel buckets, that would be a great vessel. I would avoid galvanized steel for the reasons stated in the video. Food grade plastic buckets (and other vessels) are widely available and work well for hydroponics. The environmental impact of plastic is severely lessened when reusing the same plastic vessels year after year.

[@rollandjoeseph]

In short, probably not

[@krisbaker9427]

Thanks for this video, very interesting.

[@charlesbale8376]

Fascinating, loved the information. Thanks for sharing.

[@nachig4754]

Great info, thank you so much to both of you. Cheers

[@maramorrison3144]

I would love to find out what she does with all the tomatoes. Great episode on expanding our minds to include experimental gardening methods.

[@andreahorsch286]

This seems like an infomercial for this product.

[@charliezicolillo]

Nothing beats growing in the soil.

[@JH-ms3ny]

@@charliezicolillo That's highly dependent on your location and what you are trying to grow. Certainly not a blanket statement.

[@Redandranger]

@@charliezicolillo Lots of things beat growing in soil.

[@loriwestern9103]

These ideas seem so wonderful, but being connected to the grid could pose problems if for whatever reason the grid goes down

[@pobo6113]

I absolutely loved this video. I totally want to try these systems at my house thank you very much 👍🏻

[@Katydidit]

Fascinating! I have been following a few channels w these methods, and also a local friend. You have no pest pressure there? I would assume that healthier plants fare better, however here in Texas this is difficult to fathom!!

[@angelaanderson5360]

How does Brie stake her tomatoes in the tower?

[@milkweed7678]

Great video! I want to buy the sound tract to Joe's videos. Love the background music in his videos!

[@JH-ms3ny]

I feel that the more variety of growing methods we can incorporate, the better. There are many plants I grow in my garden beds that would be difficult - if not impossible - to grow hydroponically. But, hydroponics also allows me to grow things that would not do well in my native soil, and to grow in places where I normally would not be able to with soil. Hydroponics need not be fancy, nor expensive. I grow many pounds of various peppers every year in Kratky hydroponic buckets, no electricity required. I can also grow various leafy greens indoors year-round, and have fresh salads all the time. No one should limit themselves to just one growing method.

[@michaelanger1392]

Whats the cost of that tower garden?

[@rollandjoeseph]

Style

[@renatehaeckler9843]

Our power goes out about once a year. I wonder which of those systems could survive several hours without power. It seems the aeroponics one would be the most susceptible to all the plants dying if it lost power, tho fish in overcrowded conditions would also die pretty quickly if the pump failed. I'd like to see her try wicking beds and those DIY wicking buckets, I've had very good luck with them but didn't factor in the need to prevent mosquitoes breeding in the reservoir.

[@renedean4232]

I had an opportunity to train challenged students in a hydroponic garden within a Fiesta near Houston many yrs ago. Unfortunately, it was abandoned apparently, after contamination entered the sterile area. This seems more user friendly!

[@charliehoos9773]

I use water from my fish tank in the house to water house plants. They grow beautifully, but I need to stop over watering. 😂

[@Katydidit]

Just now coming to the end of this video... maybe try the mosquito fish and also a turtle? You can almost always adopt some red-eared slider sold ( unfortunately) as a pet at some local shelter!!

[@charlesmccullough2386]

The hydroponic pond would be a concern for me.In the summer snakes love those places plus fish to eat!

[@Redandranger]

Snakes would make the pond even more awesome.

[@legauxmc]

Change of subject, what app can I use that can identify both my vegetables and plants/trees? I tried to use a few and was useless.

[@olgabykov2630]

Take pictures and videos and head over to your nearest nursery

[@jenniferedgell4101]

Did I miss something? What was the name tower that she got?

[@Interglacial_optimist]

My mosquito fish have to survive the frogs... Put in stones... I feed my frogs to the largemouth bass in the main pond. Try an ibc tote for 150 gallon tanks

[@sharonhaas8503]

💝💝💝

[@swissmissy3804]

How much electric does hydroponics cost?

[@rollandjoeseph]

Enough to not be a green product, let's not even go there with the question of " how much water?"🙄

[@hollyrice4028]

Wooow! 🤩

[@beverlyboyce1041]

Try wicking tubs, so easy. Check out Gardening with leon

[@HippocratesGarden]

I'm sorry, but anything method or technique that seeks to eliminate soil life and the entire soil food web, of which we as humans are but a minuscule piece as far as I'm concerned. yes there may be some kind of extreme situation where one of these techniques might be the -only- method available for a short term, but, so far, any possible such situation is something we have caused or exacerbated by the current non-life industrial agricultural methods. If we grew healthy food, in healthy soils and valued this food and the efforts of the gardeners and farmers, there would be no worry about shortages.

[@Redandranger]

Some places don't have the best or even decent soil and amending it to make it good is unreasonable. I don't know why someone opposed to the methods Brie used would waste their time watching the video about those methods except to come pontificate in the comments.

[@preppingonabudget8229]

Hey, Annette here from Appletree Urban Homestead in Perth Australia. We are in the process of turning our Aussie backyard into our dream urban homestead and I am documenting our journey to self sufficiency on my KZbin channel

[@atefbasha1809]

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[@rollandjoeseph]

Ehh. I'm a traditionalist, I'd rather have my hands in soil (aka earth) them artificial feeding solution personally..besides , all that water one has to use isn't very "green" in the first place and the tall white plastic "air-oponics" tower is rather ugly and stale looking imho

[@atefbasha1809]

Hallo

[@atefbasha1809]

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[@charliezicolillo]

Hydroponics,Aeroponics and Aquaponics what a waste.Lose electric they die.

[@beverlyboyce1041]

I'm doing wicking tubs and water barrel hydroponics....no electricity needed

[@JH-ms3ny]

Not true. Not all hydroponics systems require electricity, and many that do have adapted a solar backup for running a very small pump. Though I do have multiple in-ground garden beds myself, growing in soil uses a lot more water than hydroponics in growing similar plants - for considering "waste." There are advantages and disadvantages to both methods.

[@rollandjoeseph]

The vast "sterile" amount of water with the "synthetic " water based "food" is the real concern

[@Redandranger]

How do you water when your electricity goes out? City water?

[@charliezicolillo]

@@Redandranger rainwater

[@lucypearlmorgan3115]

This is not a new episode...

[@ninastone9054]

So what?