Episode 5 - Greenhouse and Hydroponic Towers - Project Update

In this video we will take a look at the greenhouse which is more like a giant propagator....
It was built by Sekura Windows from Newcastle: https://www.sekurawindows.co.uk/
The vast majority of the food I'm growing has been from seed and I'm going for heritage varieties so I can keep harvesting seed to grow new crops the following year.
Toward the end of the year I will be starting to grow cold climate varieties of tomatoes, lettuce etc. which I've sourced from Eastern Europe, Russia, Canada and Alaska as I would like to grow food all year at minimal cost and maximum yield.

I will do a specific video on the growing towers as I can imagine that many viewers will be interested to gain more information on how they were made. This is the sort of system which has a tiny footprint but a huge potential to produce food very cheaply.
The lights used in the towers system are 6500K / 2200lm daylight tubes and are only 20W each so a combined total of 80W per system will be cheap to run - mine basically cost nothing to run since they are powered by the 12.4kW solar system. They can be found here: https://geni.us/7AApcMP
I've go some red/blue grow lights to fit in the Winter for when I switch the plant species to tomatoes (red light is better for fruiting plants) and I will show them in a future video. They can be found here: https://ebay.us/VUc4w7 and here: https://geni.us/wws9c0
The tank used for water storage: https://ebay.us/lI9yhH
The whole system can be easily stripped down for relocation if necessary.

A few items from previous videos:
Rotating compost maker (Ebay): https://ebay.us/ssQcyc
Rotating compost maker (Amazon): https://geni.us/cgVLS
The price has gone insane since I bought mine in early 2020....I paid around £90 then. Next year it will probably be over £200 if the hyper-inflation continues.
The mesh I used for the crop protection can be found here: https://ebay.us/jb9FlJ
and the woven landscape fabric used in the raised beds can be found here: https://ebay.us/T6xJTz
Other versions of protection mesh and landscape fabric are available but I chose these types as I know they last. No point wasting credits in the bank on stuff which doesn't last....

Most of the materials used to create the gardens and growing systems have gone way up in price since I bought them as I got most of the parts together in late 2019 early 2020 before the 'nonsense' kicked off. There are alternatives at a lower price for sure but the products listed are what I used.
I saved up over a long time to be able to buy the necessary parts to create the food production facilities and what happened in early 2020 was the kick I needed to make it happen. Millions of others have done the same so I'm loving the fact that so many people are waking up.

If you have eyes to see now is the time to save up and take action to be self-reliant and more self-sufficient. As I am not blind to what goes on behind the headlines I've had the luxury of being able to save up over a few years for these projects but nothing is more important than self-reliance and learning new skills since skills are (or soon will be) the new currency.
Money well spent. Fake 'money' exchanged for something of real value - that's a great deal.