Compact 3-Plant Airlift in Gothenburg/Sweden

8:18 pm in Completed Window Farms, posts with pitcures! by Taxlaeder

Hi fellow farmers,

the space on my windowsill became crowded, so I decided to build a Window Farm in order to use the previously fallow vertical space. The requirements were, that it should not take up much horizontal space and not be too ugly to have as a permanent solution.

Here is a quick walk-through:

Airlift made of 2 T-Pieces

The airlift is made of 2 T-pieces joined by 10mm tube. The upper T-piece is crammed into a 9mm tube. The ends of the air tubes are taped to enlarge their diameter. An air pump for 150-400 L aquariums is to be found at the other end. This construction pumps up to 2 meters if submerged deeply enough.

The water tank is a 600×170 mm Vase from a plant shop. It saves precious horizontal space while ensuring a decent depth for the airlift. And it can stand in a central place in my apartment without insulting the onlooker’s eye too much.

PET-bottles server as plant holders, although no plants have moved in yet (volunteers can be seen to the left of the farm in the image below). The entire construction is strapped and taped to an extensible shower curtain rod which is stuffed vertically into the corner of the window. The rod is behind the bottles on the picture below and not visible to the untrained eye.

The entire construction can be admired below:

WindowFarm ready for action

There are still some problems that the construction spills water, especially the second bottle. I will fix this by cutting holes into a  cap and screwing it on the first bottle, so that the water is directed into the bottle.

Please feel free to leave comments, questions, inspirations!

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