Horticulture Room

Hello all,

Today I wanted to talk about my experience working to clean and revamp our school’s horticulture room.

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We have been working for the past few months to restore and breathe new life into the room, growing our own plants using grow towers and conventional potting. The first few weeks was spent taking out old trash and cleaning the room in general. After that, we ordered some grow towers to experiment with, which took another few weeks to assemble. After that, we started the slow process of seeding and growing. The grow towers are almost completely self sufficient; we need to add more water every now and then but in general they take care of themselves. Our other plants get watered every couple of days. We have also been experimenting with different types of fertilizers.

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In my group’s tower, we planted rainbow chard and some different types of lettuce. We also used some vegetable specific fertilizer and mineral blend to help nourish the plants. The first couple weeks of using the grow tower was quite slow – the plants were not really growing and we didn’t know why. So we started trying to change different variables to help them grow. We started by using a different pump flow rate, and then we changed our pH, and then we added some more fertilizer, and changed our watering schedule. The combination of all of these things vastly improved the grow rate and now our plants are taking off. We are now working on an outdoor planter setup, building framework and starting to move some plants outside.

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It has been a great experience of renovating the horticulture room and learning the various steps on good plant growth.

See you next time!

-Graham