I come from Ireland and the beens are divided into broad, french and runner beans there.

Here in Canada, the divisions are a bit different. Runner beans, the much bigger tastier heavier producing ones are much less popular here  than in England and in Ireland.

I am curious about how well they grow in hydroponics.  They are quite different from french beans. For instance the runner beans have huge root nodules for their nitrogen fixing bacteria. (The french beans have much smaller nodules.) French bean is Phaseolus vulgaris and runner bean is Phaseolus coccineus

Runner beans also have almost a tuber underneath (which is edible although I have never eaten it.  There are dwarf varieties as well as really tall ones. In theory they should do great in hydroponics because the nitrogen fixing bacteria need lots of oxygen and the nodules are exposed to the air instead of hidden in the ground.

Anyway, if anyone has grown them, I would love to know.

I’m thinking about doing the vertical window garden, as I already have a large floor window garden.  Can anyone say if they have to rotate their bottles to help keep the plants growing straight?

I rotate my floor pots or else they all start leaning  towards the window and it also seems like I get a better plant when I do this.

Plants below are all window grown dirt-based.  Thai basil, Italian basil, queen basil, and the bottom pic is of a pineapple i’m growing indoors. ( never thought I could do this)

I am new to gardening and hydroponics. I was excited last summer when my snap peas grew outside with gusto. Now indoors I’m trying again.

My leaves are curling up and wilting, even the stems are wilting. I’m not sure where to start. Could I be overwatering the beans? (15m on, 15m off).

Thanks!!

I have roots that have started coming out of the bottles into the bottle below them. What is the best way to deal with this?

I have some small starts of parsley growing out of rock-wool, but I’m wondering when I should actually put them in the farm?

Hello. I am just starting off. I just heard about it and I am planning on building the contraption within the next few days. I live in Vic, Catalunya (Spain) it’s at 500 meters of altitude, quite colder at this time of year. I was wondering if anyone could recommend something that would grow well at this time of year. The window gets 4 hours of direct sunlight a day. Thank you.

Sacha

Okay! So I saw a link to a windowfarms video two days ago, and now I have a working windowfarm in my kitchen! It was really inspiring to make it
Here are som pics Feel free to Leave a comment! Currently I’m only having a tiny problem getting the same ammount of water to all the plants.

Might have to do with the nozzle piece maybe not letting enough water trough…

So Anyways! Pictures follow!

Video comming soon.

It has been awhile and I have been busy outside, but I did something interesting with my strawberries.  One of them put out a runner so I planted it.  I actually had runners last summer, but just cut them off at the time.  The original strawberries are getting old and I will replace one of them in the WF with this baby.  The three on the right have all been in the window farm for a year and a half.  The one on the left is the baby and the other three started off just like it and 1.5 years ago.   As you can see the crowns have really grown tall and have divided a number of times.

After deciding to plant it, my jalepenos and strawberries had to get cozy for a couple of weeks.  The runner was only about 18 inches long so they had to be really close.  I have a jalepeno growing in a three plant WF and the top two positions are empty so I planted it in a net pot in the middle position and waited for the roots to take hold.  I held it in place in the net pot with a paper clip.   So a few weeks later, we cut the cord on the new baby.

http://our.windowfarms.org/2011/07/23/jalapeno-spider-mites/

Baby Strawberry

http://our.windowfarms.org/2011/02/13/strawberries-11-monthes-still-flowering/

My plants rot. What am I doing wrong? Does anyone have the same experience?

/Simon, Sweden

Hello again from portugal.

This was my first post: http://our.windowfarms.org/2011/06/17/starting-my-first-window-farm-some-questions/

Thanks for all the replies. (Hardware Junkie, Greenkeeper78 and BionicMel)

Now i’m having some problems with some leaves. I dont know why this is happening, maybe overwatering? pumping water 15 minutes and then 30 minutes without water. Until now i thought all was working fine. The ph is around 6,5. I’m using ghe flora series pack for the nutrients.

Any ideas?

The gallery have the wilted leaves (1st photo) and the evolution of the plants from the begining…

POST UPDATE (4-8.2011):

The last 5 pics are an update of my WF. Things are looking great I changed the water frequency, at night i have 15 minutes with water ( 3 drops per second) and then 45 minutes with no water. During the day 15 minutes with water and 30 minutes without water. at the hot hours ( 30º C) i have 15 miutes with water and 15 without.