Anyone can create a green oasis and grow a dream garden. Gardening offers a variety of health benefits- it helps to boost your moods and lower the risks of mental illness. In addition, owning a small garden will provide you nutritious veggies and herbs for your dinner table and beautiful flowers to decorate it.

This hibred of strawberry is causing a stir. Known as a Pineberry and often called a Hula berry, is white fruit known for its exotic pineapple flavor While they resemble a strawberry on the outside, Pineberry’s actually smell and taste like a pineapple.

They’re totally natural. The hula berry is a descendant of the red strawberries native to North America, Fragaria virginiana, and white strawberries native to Chile, Fragaria chiloensis.

They are not genetically modified, nor are they a hybrid of a pineapple and a strawberry. Instead, the hula berry grows naturally when cross-pollinated with a regular strawberry plant.

Seeds or even baby plants are available for purchase.

To grow your own hula berries make sure they cross-pollinate, by planting them in a 3:1 ratio with three hula berry plants for every one red strawberry plant.

Plant them all together in a sunny area with rich soil, preferably where bees frequently visit, or provide a position where there a strong breeze. This will help encourage natural cross-pollination between plants!

Plant around May June and expect some fruiting as soon as July! Some of them turn up entirely red which is a normal result of the cross-pollination process.

Much like regular strawberries, pineberry hula berries taste totally delicious on their own, providing a healthy snack even for kids.

Sugar Baby watermelon seeds grow to about 8 to 10lb watermelons, from seed to harvest in about six to eight weeks! These “Ice Box watermelons” are perfect for home gardeners who have limited space but still want to enjoy the flavors of a traditional watermelon.

Heirloom seeds are open-pollinated, meaning they can be saved and replanted year after year, preserving the traits that make them special. Sugar Baby watermelons are known for their deep red flesh, crisp texture, and high sugar content, making them a favorite choice for sweet summer treats.

Easy to grow and have a high yield, meaning you’ll have plenty of sweet and juicy watermelons to enjoy all season long. Organic and Non GMO, these top quality seeds are available at Back To Nature American Seed Company.

Knowing how high the pump will need to pump the water up from the reservoir is a very important aspect of picking a pump. The higher up the pump needs to pump the water, the lower the gph it actually puts out will be, which is referred to as “Head Height.”

GPH stands for Gallons Per Hour, and all the pumps will have the maximum gph listed in easy sight on the package. If the pump gives a range like 300-500 gph, it’s usually because it has two different size adapters.

Water pumps used for hydroponics are just simply submersible fountain and pond pumps that you can get at most home improvement stores. With back pressure and elevation in mind, it’s a good idea to figure out how many GPH you need, your budget, and choose the pump with the tallest head height.

Once you know how many GPH you need circulating in your hydroponic system, the water pump is the simple part.

Agrowtronics provide examples and simple calculations on how much GPH you need

Click Here for the “free tutorial on sizing hydroponic tanks”

This DIY hydroponic grow tower might be the first step to becoming self reliant.

This does not grow twice as many vegetables in half the space, it grows way more than that in a very tiny space!

By comparison, in a 4 x 8 raised garden bed being 32 feet, expect to grow 32 plants in it. This tower is 5 square feet and provides enough space for 52 plants. Thats 5 times the amount of food in half the space.  Ten times the amount of food in the same space

Watch the video by Haxman on how to build a tower using pvc pipe and an inexpensive water pump that provided sufficient power to hydro two towers.