Veggies for free, growing at home, without soil, without sun, and with hardly any human intervention. You don’t need to drive to Whole Foods or the local farmers’ market to pick up ingredients for a salad, and you sure as hell don’t need to pay nearly 4 bucks for a bag of kale, or 6 dollars for cherry tomatoes. All you need to do is walk to your kitchen, and the Indoor Hydroponic Tower provides for you. I’m not saying this as a blogger, I’m saying this as someone who’s grown his own hydroponic veggies in his own home.
Last year I splurged for a hydroponic kit, and although it did feel like a bit of a learning curve adjusting from soil-based plants to hydro-based ones, I managed to grow Italian basil and spinach in a month, and my own San Marzano tomatoes in 2 months. In fact, I harvested my own habaneros on Monday. The cost of all this? Practically nothing – I saved seeds and planted them in my hydroponic tower. A month later, free produce that I would otherwise pay big bucks for. While my hydroponic kit is fairly basic (it needs sunlight), this one from TGTOWFC handles everything from seed to soil, and from sunlight to water. All you do is ‘load’ a seed into a biodegradable sponge, place it in a pod in the planter, and you’re set. The 48L combined tank gives your plant just the right amount of water, while a sunlight-mimicking LED array imitates the outdoors, giving you a lush kitchen garden inside your own house.
Designer: TGTOWFC
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A few key aspects make this Indoor Hydroponic Tower different. For starters, most towers are designed with a certain template in mind – a light, a tray, and a water reservoir. Everything’s either controlled by a timer, or an advanced computer that adjusts based on your plants and your environment. The TGTOWFC tower has a few key differences. For starters, the entire tower boasts a vertical design that has multiple stacked layers that let you grow as many as 48 plants in 1 single tower. That essentially means 8 plants divided across 6 platforms. Each platform has its own dedicated light and draws water from the main reservoir. In essence, each of the 6 trays is essentially its own hydroponic setup. The entire setup is also built with wheels, so you can move the tower around pretty easily, keeping it in the living room for the foliage, and moving it to the kitchen for access to your greens.
The ability to grow 48 plants means you can basically turn a small 3 sq.ft. space on your floor into an entire produce aisle. The tower supports veggies, leafy greans, herbs, or even decorative and flowering plants. If you’d like to turn the tower into a facade of flowers for your home, this device totally can, although as someone who’s successfully grown his own spinach, basil, and tomatoes, there’s an entirely separate kind of joy simply plucking leaves and veggies from your own plant setup. Food could literally not get fresher! And when you see the food right in front of your eyes, you’re more likely to eat healthier because it’s as easy as opening the fridge to pick out that packet of half-eaten Doritos.
So how do you ‘grow’ your own veggies? The short answer is that you don’t. The tower handles practically everything for you. Full-spectrum LED lighting handles your plants’ sunrise to sunset requirements, mimicking exactly the sun’s intensity level throughout the day. An independent 24L water reservoir at the bottom holds enough water for all your plants, but each individual tray has 4L of water storing capacity too, bringing the total to a whopping 48L. That’s enough to leave your plants for weeks without any maintenance and have the tower handle growth itself. a 5.6″ display gives you all the info you need, and an optional smartphone app can also pass that information to your phone (along with a bit of control), so you know when the water is too much or too little, allowing you to adjust accordingly. The tower handles the rest, distributing water and sunlight accordingly to each individual tray.
This process, for the uninitiated, has some fairly impressive merits. For starters, no soil means drastically reduced chances of pests and infections. The soil-free approach is less messy too, and makes the entire setup lightweight because 90% of any planter’s weight is usually its soil. Here, the water is what gives the tower its equilibrium, and the plants their nutrition. As someone who’s simultaneously tried to grow spinach the regular and hydroponic way, the latter is nearly 2x as fast, giving you foolproof results in weeks instead of months. Once the plant’s had its run, simply ditch the pod and replace it with a new one. While certain plants like tomatoes and basil can grow indefinitely, lettuce, coriander, and spinach sort of have a shelf life, and can only be consumed up to a certain plant stage.
The LCD color display shows you a variety of metrics, from water level and pH level to pump status, light brightness, ambient temperature, time of the day, and even a day-count so you can see how long it’s taken to go from seed to sapling to a proper fruit/veggie-bearing plant. Each tray also sits on a height-adjustable column, and for plants that require support, a snap-on guardrail ensures your tomato vines have a support structure, or your iceberg lettuce doesn’t spill over the tray and potentially fall out of the designated pod.
The Indoor Hydroponic Tower comes in two variants – a 4-tier one that starts at $379 (offering space for 32 plant pods), and a 6-tier one for $449 (with space for 48 pods). The biodegradable sponges cost $10 for 48 pieces (you can keep buying more ones as the sponges get used up), and the plant nutrition (which comes in liquid form) costs another $6, although you can pretty much buy any hydroponic plant food online. My tip is to choose a food that works for both leafy and flowering/fruiting plants, since only a leaf-friendly nutrient won’t promote fruit growth and vice versa. A balance is healthy, and should turn your portable tower into your own patch of greenery so you don’t have to shell out big bucks for veggies in this economy! The towers ship globally starting December 2025, so you can kickstart your new year with healthy eating and reduced grocery bills. You’ll thank me later.
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