Hydro Harvest

Hydro Harvest Farms, located at 1101 Shell Point Rd East in Ruskin Florida, is a beautiful U-Pick farm and Hydroponic Sales Center. You can visit us and pick out the garden that is right for you and see how our gardens grow. Or, our on-line store offers many choices. We ship our gardens all over the United States including Alaska and Puerto Rico! Our gardens are on the roof of the Florida Aquarium, in Busch Gardens, at Epcot and Schools and Businesses all over the country. We are featured in Vertical Gardening by Author Derek Fell of Rodale Institutes. There is no place too hot or too cold to grow using our vertical hydroponic gardens. All of our gardens come with the parts and accessories you need to put a garden in your back yard. It is so easy to put one together and we have videos, instructions and free classes if you would like to learn more. The prices for the gardens include options, such as new or gently used vertical pots. If you choose gently used you will save money and you will never be able to tell the difference. While our stock of used pots lasts, the savings is great. The on-line and store prices do not include the Nutrient Tank. We have these tanks at the store, or you can simply use a large rubber trash can with the lid. The choice is yours. Also when shipping the gardens, if you choose this method, will not include the 5 ft pole. The cost of this pole is very low and can be purchased at a local hardware store. To ship it would be very expensive and we want to save you money. If you pick the garden up at the farm it comes with the pole(s).

We custom build the gardens too. Just email john@hydroharvestfarms.com to arrange a quote. There is no extra charge for this, we want you to have the garden you need, and it is easy to accomplish this.

Our Automatic gardens are the most popular; in fact we highly recommend you choose this. It comes with a submersible pump and a digital timer that regulates the amount of nutrient and feeds your plants when they need it. It also affords you the chance to go away and your garden takes care of itself. Also, stress is the main cause of poor plant performance, just like us, and when the plant receives the right amount of water and nutrient it is much healthier.

The Manual Gardens do not include the parts and accessories needed to automatically feed your plants. You will receive nutrient and you manually feed the nutrient into the top vertical pot.

All of our Nutrient and Organic Controls are listed at the bottom of this page.

Please do not hesitate to call (941-915-7208) or email us john@hydroharvestfarms.com if you have any questions.

We also sell all of the parts including nutrients, media, timers, pumps, organic pest controls, vertical and ground pots and more.

Sweet Sixteen Auto

Our most popular garden is our Sweet Sixteen automatic feeding system. This garden grows just about everything a family could need. It has up to 120 growing spaces and takes up about 36 square feet (12x3). If you had planted this many plants in the ground, you would need about a 20 X 20 square foot garden depending on what you are growing. Choose all new (vertical and ground pots) or gently used (vertical pots are used, but you can’t tell. The ground pots are new). Pick up and pay at the farm eliminates the shipping costs.

Please email john@hydroharvestfarms.com if you wish to purchase 2 or more gardens at one time. Shipping charges will be prorated accordingly. Save money!

Towering Twelve (3 Tower Vertical Garden)

This garden is our second most popular for the family backyard. It has everything the Sweet Sixteen has except just one less tower and ground pot. Remember all of our gardens are made to easily expand. So, if you want to save a little money now, then perhaps this is your best choice.

Please email john@hydroharvestfarms.com if you wish to purchase 2 or more gardens at one time. Shipping charges will be prorated accordingly. Save money!

Twin Tower Garden

If you are looking for a small garden that grows approximately 50 plants, then this is a good choice. It takes up a very small amount of space and don’t forget you can purchase the patio plates and set it on your patio or pool deck. Just walk outside in the evening and pick your salad, herbs and vegetables. As with all of our gardens this is easily expandable.

Please email john@hydroharvestfarms.com if you wish to purchase 2 or more gardens at one time. Shipping charges will be prorated accordingly. Save money!

Green Thumb Garden

Great starter Garden! Many people buy this for specific garden goodies, like herbs or lettuce. One thing we can promise you is about 90% of the folks that start out with this, come back to add to it. It is so easy to add to all of our gardens. If you are walking the fence on buying a garden, then this is a great one to start with.

Also, when we have free garden giveaways to our email subscribers, this is the one you can win! So sign up for my great email newsletter and maybe you can win this!

Nutrients and More.

Click here for Vegetable MD On-Line. Helpful link from our friends at Cornell University.

Organic Controls based on Family of Plant

Information from Cornell Resource Guide for Organics

Use the information to assist you on the organic control that best describes the condition of your plants. You can purchase these controls below FREE SHIPPING, or at the farm. If you are not sure of the issue with your plants, send a picture of the condition to john@hydroharvestfarms.com or bring a sample to us, at the farm.

Our goal is to use every Organic and IPM management control available to care for any diseases or other abnormal conditions of your plants. If you need something we don't stock, let us know, we can get it for you.

Plant Families-Click on Names for more information

Brassica Family

Brassica plants belong to the mustard family, Brassicaceae. They are also called crucifers and cole crops. This diverse family, whose members have various edible plant parts such as roots of radish and turnips, stems of kohlrabi, leaves of cabbage and other leafy brassicas, and seeds of mustard and rape are consumed as fresh, cooked or processed vegetables. Other members of this family include broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, collards, kale, rape and rutabaga. Many weed species are also in this family and can harbor insect and disease pests.