Urgent!
These heirloom tomato plants in pop bottle planters are growing fast and need to go outdoors into the sunlight as soon as possible. The heirloom tomato and pepper seedlings in the trays need to be potted up into pop bottle planters. I also have more heirloom vegetable seeds to start but I need help.
My plan is to donate these plants to educational, religious and charitable institutions here in my Bay Ridge, Brooklyn neighborhood. We can use them to help launch EarthBox, sub-irrigated box and bucket vegetable gardens.
Volunteer help and transportation is all that is needed. I will provide free consulting and starter plants. Volunteers can find more 2 and 3 liter pop/soda bottles and food-grade buckets. There are plenty of them out there.
All that is needed is people to collect them. I will teach how to make the planters.
This is an opportunity to do some good for the community. I know of no institution here in the New York City area that is teaching these modern methods of urban food production. This includes our botanic gardens and that is a sad commentary.
These methods teach recycling, plant science, water conservation and most important, how to grow fresh vegetables in the city without tillable land.
Please contact me (or tell a friend) if you represent an institution and are interested in starting an urban food production program or learning more about how to do it.
Bob Hyland
urbangreenscaper [AT] gmail.com
That's a nice setup! I have the same rack in my basement with a light I made out of 3 100-Watt equivalent Compact Florescent's and a reflector of bent sheet aluminum. The tomato's keep hitting the lights and I'm out of room to raise them!
Posted by: anomynous | April 14, 2009 at 10:42 PM