The Planning Stage

After my reflection yesterday, my husband and I started our planning stage of how we can maximise our very limit space. And the thing we defiantly agree on is growing upwards. ( no wonder why people have to learn about planting and gardening for years and years) ...

We researched some amazing ideas. Vertical gardening, hydroponics, lots of big words that I don't know what they mean. And we decided to do some WINDOW FARMING! Well a version of window farming. You say "window farming, what's that??" or "windows don't have soil!" . ... Well I'll tell you Allllll about it!

Window farming is a way to farm in small spaces with exceedingly limited space. What happens is you use recycled 1.5 liter water bottles, some sponge, and dirt to grow your veggies. You have several bottles connected together, top to bottom together (with holes so water can be runed from the top to the bottom). With a bottle on the bottom to collect all the extra water. This way has been proven to grow lots of leafy greens. Each column can be as many bottles long as you want (or have space for!) and you can have as many columns as you want. We are starting our first column soon. . . We will be growing lettuce hopefully lots of it with red and green and extra yummy.

On a side note, we also have decided to grow a few other things, that can't be grown with the window farming system. We have decided to grow peppers and tomatos. Which I have planted today. I really hope I don't become a plant killer again.

And one last style of planing we have decided to do, to really maximise our space, is upside down hanging plants. I'm going to start my first one tomorrow, BASIL! It's going to be really exciting.

I've found thinking, growing, and just getting my hands dirty a real way to connect to God. Here I am just growing a little tomato here, lettuce there, basil up there, and He planned and organised the entire world! Forget just plants, He did it all! It's just amazing and wonderful. And because of His wonderfulness we get to do cool things like window farming!

I really hope to show you all what this will all look like when we are done!

Blessings