Can tomatoes or other heavy crops be grown in the Floating Gardens?
For the Vegetable Garden Kit the answer is “Yes”. The Floating Garden Kitchen Garden Kit doesn’t have the reservoir capacity to make tomato growing feasible. However as an experiment, we have successfully grow dwarf determinate tomatoes in the Kitchen Garden Kit. Without providing supplementary vine support, the Floating Garden Vegetable Hydroponic Garden kit should primarily be used to grow annual plants that don’t have heavy stems and leaf systems (i.e. lettuce, chards, basil, thyme, oregano, chili peppers, etc.). For these types of plants the plant bed will quite adequately support the plants during their growth cycle. We make an add-on vine support stand for the Vegetable Hydroponic Garden Kit which enables you to support the vines and produce for vegetables such as tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers and gourds, (for example). Before we designed our vine support stand, we grew tomatoes by tieing the plants to an overhead patio pergola using flexible plant tape. One of our Vegetable Hydr
