Picture Outside The Box

Last night I was trying to describe in words the new and revised GP Home Model box in the sunroom. This picture of outside the box should help. The 8’ by 2’ box is filled with compost, worms and castings. Above the box will hang two fluorescent grow lights to add light for 12 hours a day. After I add more castings to the box, seeds, mostly of salad greens, will be put in the box to grow. The bottom of box has holes so that water put in the box can drain down to the slanted black tray below as tea. The tea will flow left and drop into the wood tray in the shelf below. In the tray that is tilted to the right will be planters with holes in the bottom to grow more salad greens. The plants on the bottom shelf will take up some of the tea from the bottom and the rest of it will flow into the basin on the right side, ready to be placed back into the system as fertilized water. It is a self-contained system that just needs a little extra water at times, and sun or light.

With the AIR insulation system on the windows in the sunroom the room will stay at a comfortable growing temperature for salad greens in the winter. This is the fourth season for the GP Home Model Box and I can picture it as being the best. Time and the picture outside the box will tell.

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