Well have moved into my new home, still unpacking though. Currently trying to decide how I want to do my hrdroponic system. Since the room I originally planned to use (the northwest dinning room) gets very little to mostly low lighting due to direction facing and large oaks blocking light, I am thinking of doing something small in there first with shade loving plants like peas, beans, spinach, and lettuce. I am also thinking of a shade loving herb garden of mints, sage, lemon balm, and some others herbs for tea/cooking. I will save the sun loving plants for when I finish organizing the craft room which gets a lot of southern eastern/western light. I am impatient to start and have been slowly gathering recycled supplies. My latest recycled find was a 3 gallon water bottle from someone throwing away their filtered water device. My only current problem is I cannot make up my mind if I want to use it as a water resevoir or try and find a cap/top for it to use in soda making or homebrew as it is the perfect size to fit in my fridge. It’s a case of when hobbies collide. ^_^*

I’ve never managed to successfully grow anything other than a bit of lucky bamboo and pothos. Looking forward to trying my hand at my own little garden where I don’t have to spend hours digging in the dirt in the sun. I’m a pale skinned Florida girl, I don’t tan, I burn!

Hey, guys, I’m just an old Hippie from St. Pete trying to get some feed-back from other Florida window farmers. Anyone care to share what they’ve learned/experienced so far?

Hello Florida Windowfarmers! I will be moving into my first home soon and look forward to trying my hand at a windowfarming. I was wondering how to make use of a southeast facing kitchen window for gardening and have been curious to try my hand at hydroponics for a while. After reading ”Your Farm in the City” by Lisa Taylor and learning about this website I look forward to doing my first hydroponic garden. I can make use of my waterbottles (other than as seed starting containers) and now have plans for what to do with a window that I wanted to do a garden in anyhow. I look forward to learning from this website and the members insight.

Hi Florida windowfarmers. I am new to this, and not really good at blogging and such…I have a tendency to lose replies and such, but I am really excited about starting a window farm, am NOT much of an engineer or builder and REALLY need pretty specific plans on how to build something. (AM pretty good about following directions), but I cannot find specific plans, or I am not looking in the right spots or cant figure out how to get to where I need to go. Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions? I would LOVE to get started on this project as florida is such a difficult place to grow vegetables, with the heat, fungus’s,bugs and other hungry critters, I see very little of my crop. I have started SIPS but they are still exposed to the vagarities of central florida weather weirdities. Thanks