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I started working on this one several months ago, before the airlift system edged in with it’s sleek design and lower price point, but ended up moving house in the meantime and having to scrap my original plans. Luckily I moved to a place with great windows, so here is my old skool WF.

It’s still [...]

Okay, as requested by Britta, here’s the introduction to a piece of equipment that may provide a cheap solution to a problem that those of us who chose to use a setup featuring a comparatively powerful aquarium pump have:
How to reduce the interval to a minimum when it’s not about a steady drip, but quick [...]

This video was taken more recently on March 30th, 2010:
silox – 1st Week Progress and 2nd Vertical Plant Tower w/ New Plants – March 30th, 2010
This is an update after the 1st week of growing in the 1st vertical plant tower and after building/planting in the 2nd vertical tower of our hydroponic window farm.
We have [...]

To avoid confusion, this video was taken on Sunday, March 21st, 2010 and was just now uploaded.
silox – Initial Setup and 1st Vertical Plant Tower – March 21st, 2010
The initial setup and after planting in the 1st vertical tower of our hydroponic window farm. Our hydroponic window farm is located in our apartment sliding glass [...]

We are almost there on kits, Folks. We would love your input on a couple of things.
For more about why we are making kits, read this.

Here’s how kits are looking.
You will choose between a 2-column or 4-column windowfarm. You WILL have to be able to screw at least 4 screws into your upper [...]

I started my WindowFarm about a month ago, working on it in my spare time. I wanted to interface it with a microcontroller for automation and used the ATMega168 (same as on the Arduino) to control a windshield wiper pump to move water through the system for 4 seconds every 10 minutes.
The construction of the [...]

The relationship between the amount of time your pump is turned on by the timer and the gallons per minute flow of your pump dictates a minimum amount of water in your system and, therefore, a minimum size for a sewer pipe reservoir.

Hello.  I’m about to begin my window farm, but I had a quick question.  In the Reservoir System instructions , the minimum width for the reservoir is 47″.  Is there any reason that it must be that long?  If I only wanted three columns (instead of four in the diagram), could my reservoir be ~36″?  [...]

This is from Jackson’s blog at Superforest.
I found my way into the vertical garden/hydroponics section of youtube, and there I feasted like a wild wildebeast.
I gorged on gallons per minute tables, pvc piping comparisons, and silicone sealant. I learned about pump volume ratios and outflow units and bleeder valves and plastic tubing.
And in the [...]

The pump – purchased from MoPar – an autoparts store, for about $20.00. This is a standard windshield pump. Others can be found online for next to nothing. The supply voltage is supposed to be 12V – This is the same as a car’s standard voltage.
What HAS to be known is that at 12V, this [...]