Last week, Daily Candy posted an article about the Windowfarms Urban Gardens movement. Wow, Daily Candy – typically a site associated with style, shopping, and fashion – has posted an environmentally-conscious article about growing food in your own urban apartment window. Seems very interesting… though on further delving, the PDF download on the Windowfarms site, which gives recommendations on how to create your own window farm, was broken. Disappointing, but worth checking back on.
That being said, I already have a window garden of sorts. It isn’t cool-looking and vertical and hanging in space like the ones shown on the Windowfarms Urban Gardens website, it’s just a series of pots sitting on the window sill, like the kind of window garden in most apartments I’ve seen…
*Note: a pile of saved, used batteries that I’m trying to find a safe way to dispose of (any ideas?)
Anyhow, a hanging version of my little herb-and-cactus garden would be interesting to try out, though I do worry about the leaching of plastics from the recycled plastic into the foodstuffs themselves. Because the PDF download wasn’t available, I’m not sure if the Windowfarms site addresses this in their materials. However, after some (relatively cursory) web-based research, it seems like it’s probably okay to use recycle plastics to grow plants in, as long as they’re #2, #4, or #5 plastic types. I’m not a doctor or a research scientist, so cannot validate any of these claims. If there are easy-to-understand materials out there about chemical leaching, please feel free to send along.
Happy gardening!
