Our office is located at 650 Cumberland Street, Cornwall, Ontario. K6J 4J5.

We have two fulfillment centers in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada and Laramie, Wyoming, USA.

Hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. Instead, you add nutrients directly into the water supply. Liquid nutrients enable the plants to spend less time getting food from the soil and more time growing leavest. 

Hydroponics is also an answer to two of the world’s growing concerns: diminishing soil quality, and water scarcity.

Also, food safety concerns attached to traditional agriculture, such as high pesticide use and metal contaminants in the soil, are significantly more manageable if not entirely erased in a hydroponics production system.

Many types of crops are perfect matches for the ZipGrow™Towers. Herbs like basil, mint, and rosemary are perfect matches for growing vertically. We’ve also had great success with leafy greens such as lettuce, kale, and arugula. With a little extra planning and preparation, you can also successfully grow fruiting plants such as strawberries. You can read our Quick Crops Guide here. 

– Please note: strawberries and other fruiting plants can take a lot of work and use different nutrient ratios than greens and herbs.

In any size ZipGrow™ Towers you will space your plants 4-6″ crop dependent.

Larger statured crops will require 6″ spacing while smaller statured crops will require 4″ spacing.

For most of the crops we grow in our ZipGrow™ Towers – largely nutrient dense greens and herbs – we stick to about a 4-6 inch spacing. This inch spacing helps us grow 8-10 basil plants in a single 5′ ZipGrow Tower. Many of our farmers have reported they are able to grow:

10-12 lettuce-sized plants per 5 foot tower and 16-20 lettuce sized plants per 8 foot tower.

Other types of plants will require more specific measurements:

Mint, for example, grows like a weed and spreads throughout the entire Tower. This differs from most of your greens like lettuce and kale that tend to grow more centralized and gain the majority of their weight in one spot.  Chives can also be planted closely together therefore allowing you to grow a lot more plants per tower.

A ZipGrow™ Farm Wall can be mounted on any south facing wall or fence in the Northern hemisphere or a north facing wall or fence in the Southern hemisphere. You can also mount your FarmWall indoor with a light kit for year round production.

With the purchases of either of these two systems, we recommend purchasing the Beginner Bundle. You can get approximately 6 months of consumables with the beginner bundle. You will also need to source your own seeds.

Our ZipGrow™ Towers are manufactured in North America and made of virgin food grade PVC. Our Matrix Media™ is made from recycled BPA free water bottles that is coated with a proprietary material to prevent leeching.

ZipGrow Towers™, two PVC gutters, a drip irrigation system, a submersible pump, a media pulling hook, a bottle of nutrient solution, wicking strips, Matrix Media™ and miscellaneous hardware.

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