First salad From Vegetable Tower Grown in 2 Months From Seed !!

New York Restaurant Uses Towers To feed Customers

Red and yellow watermelons, ripe strawberries, squash blossoms, heads of romaine and Bibb lettuces and fresh chickpeas are among the crops being lowered, using a pulley system, from the rooftop garden on a building in Greenwich Village. 

These will supply the kitchen of Bell Book & Candle, a restaurant opening in a month or so on the building’s ground floor. 

John Mooney, above, the chef, and his partner, Mick O’Sullivan, are growing more than 70 varieties of herbs, vegetables and fruits using a hydroponic automatic watering system of vertically planted structures, like little towers studded with openings for the plants. 

The pulley system is an alternative to hauling produce down six flights of stairs (there’s no elevator). 

The partners are sharing their harvest with neighborhood restaurants, but once they open, Mr. O’Sullivan estimates they will grow about 60 percent of their own restaurant’s produce.

Bromeliad Hydroponic Tower 10' High and Happy

Looking Good and Growing !!

What Makes Growing Vegetables in the Tower SO GOOD !!

Click on Tower to See How Water Flows

One Hydroponic Plant Tower can Feed a Family !!

Just took this picture ..on just this one tower I have growing 4 types of Lettuce  ..two different types of Tomatoes..Vietnamese Herbs..Purple Cauliflower..Cucumbers..mint and Spearmint .. Black Basile ,Swiss Chard and Greek Oregano..They are all growing happily close together with the same hydroponic nutrition soaking their roots...and the tower,including the water tank below is only 2 and 1/2 feet diameter..and has wheels  to move it around easily . 

Big Beautiful Hydroponic Bromeliad Tower ... 12 feet high !

Bao installs the baskets in the Tower

HE WORKS FOR WATER !!

Large Basin Planter