Gwen O’Neill’s Tower Garden: Spring 2013
Gardening involves endless cycles — too much rain, not enough rain — too much sun, not enough sun — one crop finishing up, planning ahead to be ready with new plants. Read more
Posts from the ‘Gwen’s Growth Diary’ Category
Apr 17
Green and purple beans almost ready for the tower!
Spring is in the air and the green and purple beans are almost ready for the tower! As the days are getting longer, people are dreaming of sweet, vine-ripened tomatoes and fresh cucumbers. Picking a few stalks of parsley without losing the rest of the bunch as it lays unused in the refrigerator, is a benefit of growing veggies with a tower garden. Read more
Sensational Easy Gardening with Tower Garden
The Tower Garden makes growing your own produce so easy. It’s sustainable, uses less water and takes so much less time than a traditional garden. Click on the link below for a slide show about my garden growth over the past year.
Sensational gardening with Tower Garden
Gwen O’Neill has been a gardener for over 40 years and has always been a passionate cook. Her own health challenges led her to experiencing a variety of healing modalities. After finding that her health improved with eating more whole food and improving her nutrition, she is committed to sharing this experience with others.
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Tower Garden and Healthy Roots
One of my new distributors was so excited that I thought I would share with you. She said, “I had to move it because it’s a heavy one and it was already drooping…but I was shocked to see how long the roots are!”
Cucumbers in My Tower Garden in the Fall
Fall is in the air here in the Bay Area. My cucumber plants stopped producing new flowers during the very hot weeks of August so I decided to see if I could get a few more before the cool weather set in. Read more
Do you want to grow tomatoes? Lots of tomatoes?
I’ve been experimenting with pruning the cherry tomatoes in my tower garden — I discovered in early June that the two cherry tomato plants would absolutely take over the tower if they were not seriously pruned. Read more
Aleta’s Tower Garden Cucumbers
Aleta Pritzo was one of my first customers to have a tower garden delivered in April, 2012. She’s been working on “cleaning up” her diet with more healthy foods. Because she was buying a lot of organic produce, Aleta was anxious to start growing some of her own. Read more
My Tower Garden Tomatoes are Growing So Fast!
Look at it now!
The cherry tomatoes seem to be growing 2 or more inches every day. I’m going to rig something up on the top of the tomato cage to give them support so they don’t bend over. Read more
Tomatoes Looking Good in My Tower Garden
It’s exciting to see how quickly the tomatoes are growing now that the weather is consistently warm. I expect the heritage cherry tomatoes pictured here will begin ripening very soon and there are plenty of them on this plant.
One of the frequent questions I hear is, what can I grow in a tower garden? Read more
Tomatoes in the Tower Garden
Last July when I put together my first tower garden, I had five different kinds of tomatoes in my traditional garden. This is my first summer with tomatoes in the tower. Read more
