![]() Filling with Soilįilling with soil was a little more difficult than the setup, because I was using more cost-efficient, 50-quart bags of Miracle-Gro. It only takes up a footprint of four square feet. ![]() It stands 43″ high, just at my chest level. The resulting tower, sans soil, was sturdy and rotated easily. An older child could set this up with adult help. It was easily a one-person job and could be completed in three to five minutes. (This probably could have been avoided all together with better tube design.) The compost tube is fitted with a cap that can only be put on one way. I just cut it and was able to adjust it correctly with the remaining five zip ties. You are provided with zip ties to steady the tube before pouring in the soil, but that also caused some headaches, because I tightened the first zip tie a little too much, which made the tube crooked. I feel these molded pieces could have been better designed to fit together – some of them semi-collapsed into each other, requiring me to take the tube apart and refit it. However, the separate cylindrical pieces that form the compost tube did give me some trouble, since there’s only one way they can be snapped in. The drawer is separated from a compost tube by a plastic screen so the nutrient water (the excess water that drips from watering through the compost) is separated from the resulting mulch. In the center is a composting tube that allows you to discard brown and green scraps to further feed your plants, as well as a nutrient water and mulch collection drawer on the bottom. The tower is made of BPA- and PVE-free food-grade plastic, which can be recycled later when necessary, and is UV-resistant for durability. (But as anyone with IKEA furniture knows, that’s not always the best strategy – so I read the directions.) This box will make an excellent rocket ship later. ![]() ![]() The setup was easy and intuitive – it was actually simple enough to figure out without reading the directions. The tower arrived disassembled in an octagonal box with a set of instructions. I finally received The Garden Tower Project’s Garden Tower 2 this past week and had the opportunity to set it up. The Frazzled may earn a commission if you purchase any items through these links at no cost to you. ![]()
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