Update 7/20/2014 - Mittleider Garden and Backyard Homestead

Chicken Diapers

Here are some benefits of having chicken diapers:

• Easy Clean Up!
• You chickens become house pets, that's pretty neat!
• You can watch chicken YouTube"s with your favorite poultry friend. "Probably not the slaughter house one's"
• Find eggs around the house instead of in the coop

The above video explains how the chicken diaper works. enjoy:)

Learn how to build a Grow Tower

Products used in these videos:

• 1 inch thin wall pvc pipe
• 3/4 inch pvc pipe
• 1/2 inch conduit (Optional, This adds rigidness to the structure from wind)
• Styrofoam buckets (Walmart's Styrofoam coolers will work fine)
• Coco Fiber (Growing Media)
• Metal Electrical Box
• Metal washer (This rests on the 1 inch thin wall pvc pipe. The first bucket rests on this washer.)

Grow Tower Construction Video:

Benefits of Grow Towers:

• The tower keeps the plants off the ground (protects from disease and some bugs).
• Grow more produce per sqfoot.
• Less water usage, Install 1 drip line into the top bucket and the water drips through all the buckets below.
• No weeds.
• Quick setup and tear down.
• Fruit hangs from the buckets and does not lay on the ground. Prevents early stage fruit rot.

Grow Tower Tear Down Video: