Quarantine Project: Garden Tower

[IdeaMakers]

Hey all, been awhile since the last meeting so I was wondering what projects people are working on. Here's my garden project.

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The Garden Tower




Basically just a 5 inch square by 8 foot vinyl fence post that I cut 2 dozen half circles in. Would have been a lot easier on the 8 foot CNC table. Then using a heat gun and a wine bottle ( ) I shaped the openings so a 3 inch basket would sit at an angle.



We started the lettuce in a tray for about a week and these have been in the tower for two weeks so three weeks old.



The fun part is of course a solar powered pump. The 12 volt pump pushes water up a tube inside of the post which drains down the inside of the post into the 5 gallon bucket, Aquaponics. I mounted a 40 watt solar panel in a spot where it gets the most sunlight in our shady backyard (7 am - 4pm). Then ran the power to a 12 volt regulator (seen mounted to the siding in a plastic box) and on to the pump. Pretty happy with it so far and the 2 gallon per minute pump can probably run water for 3 of these towers or six dozen pots.

Hope everyone is doing well, John