How to Set Up Your Tower Garden HOME

The Tower Garden HOME is an amazing learning tool for young scientists! We can’t wait to see what you grow! Photo credit: Angelica Robertson

💚Ready to set you your Tower Garden HOME? Let the fun begin!

Locate your Tower Garden Set Up & Growing Guide

First things first: unpack everything and lay it out. Locate your Tower Garden Set Up & Growing Guide.

Your growing guide is a booklet packed with your Tower Garden HOME. If you purchased a bundle, it will be in one of the boxes—probably the last box you look in, of course!

It is available on the Tower Garden website if you've lost your guide.

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Open the guide and take a minute to familiarize yourself with the basics of assembling your Tower Garden.

TIP: Locate the green bag that contains your hardware!

TIP: The net pots are needed for the large spots only. The 'baby spots' don't need net pots.

TIP: Use 1/2 strength nutrients when setting up your Tower Garden HOME! 130ml of A and 130ml of B

Healthy seedlings

What about seedlings?

The easiest way to grow seedlings for your Tower Garden HOME is by 'direct seeding'. Read this post to find out more!

You can also start your seedlings in The Germinator. It's so easy to start seeds with the Germinator!

Beware of bringing outdoor seedlings inside! Seedlings grown outside can have hitchhikers that can multiply quickly indoors. Aphids, for example, will quickly take over indoors since their predators don't live indoors.

To determine the amount of pH UP or pH DOWN that you need every time you fill up your Tower Garden, follow these steps when you first set up your Tower Garden HOME:

1. Fill the Tower Garden basin with water. Use non-softened, chlorine, and chloramine-free water.

2. Add 130 ml of A. Stir. Add 130ml of B. (130ml is the proper amount for seedlings)

3. Plug your pump in to circulate the water. Wait a few hours for the pH to adjust.

4. Test your pH. Add a small amount of pH down or pH up if needed. I use the cap to 'measure,' but you can also use a tsp or tablespoon.

5. Test again. If needed, repeat #4 until your pH is 5.5.

6. Make a note of how much pH down or pH up you needed to add to reach a pH of 5.5.

The number you get (for example, 2 capfuls) is the number you need to add every time you fill up your Tower Garden.

If your Tower Garden is half empty, then you'll add half as much water. Add half as much pH down or up. A full Tower Garden HOME holds 13 gallons of water.

If your Tower Garden is 1/4 empty, then add 1/4 as much pH down or up.

Going forward, you will test the pH if you observe a problem in the color of your plant leaves. The leaves should be the same color as the veins.

As long as the veins in the leaves and the leaf is the same color, you're doing fine. If your veins and leaf are the same color, you don't even need to test your pH.

JUST ASSUME IT'S GOOD.

What can you grow in the Tower Garden HOME? Check this post to see!