Tower Planter Growth Arrangement and Method

A high tower planter growth arrangement in combination with growing media and apparatus providing drip-to-excess water and nutrient to the growing media, that employs less water, less nutrient, and less acreage per plant than in-ground field cultivation and can be used in commercial applications to grow plants and crops in an elevated position above the ground with yields of some plants and crops that are commercially competitive with those obtained via in-ground field cultivation thereof, said high tower planter growth arrangement characterized by:

• a plurality of strong, rigid, and vertically-extending tower supports each having a diameter dimension, a top end, and a bottom end, each said tower support also having a multiple-part swaged construction;
• a plurality of strong and lightweight growing pots each made from high-density expanded foam having a minimum material density of approximately 2.7 pounds per cubic foot and also having minimum wall and bottom thickness dimensions of approximately three-fourths-inches, each said growing pot also having a square top configuration with four top corners and a large square top opening, a tapering top-to-bottom configuration allowing compact nesting before and after plant growing use, a bottom surface with a central hole approximately one-fourth-inch larger than said diameter dimension of said tower support, eight drain holes arranged in an octagonal pattern around said center hole, said drain holes also each positioned between said center hole and the perimeter of said bottom surface with its spaced-apart distance from said center hole at least twice that of its spaced-apart distance from the closest perimeter of said bottom surface, said drain holes also having a minimum diameter dimension of approximately one-fourth-of-an-inch and said drain holes that are adjacent to the same perimeter of said bottom surface having a spaced-apart distance from one another of approximately one-inch, each said growing pot also having a smooth interior surface configured to reduce root penetration from crops and plants grown therein, a beveled top edge configured to reduce plant stem breakage, four tapered grooves cut in said top edge with each said tapered groove positioned centrally between a different pair of said top corners, and a square bottom configuration with bottom corners shaped and dimensioned for secure positioning within one of said central grooves of a lower one of said growing pots when a maximum of approximately twelve of said growing pots are stacked one upon the other in a vertically-stacked arrangement with all of their center holes aligned and adjacent ones of said growing pots rotated approximately 45-degrees from one another, and each said growing pot also having side indentations configured to assist seedling growth in the next lower one of said growing pots in said vertically-stacked arrangement;
• with said tower support inserted through all said aligned center holes;
• a plurality of rotation plates each having an octagonal perimeter configuration that is smaller than in width dimension than that of said octagonal pattern of drain holes in said growing pots and a central hole approximately one-fourth-inch larger than said diameter dimension of said tower support, with at least one of said rotation plates selected and positioned beneath the bottom one of said growing pots in said vertically-stacked arrangement so as not to block said drain holes in said bottom growing pot, said central hole in each said selected rotation plate aligned with said center holes in said growing pots in said vertically-stacked arrangement, with said tower support also inserted through said central hole in each said selected rotation plate;
• an inner support associated with each said tower support both above and below ground level;
• a plurality of strong and rigid risers collectively having various length dimensions and each having an inside diameter dimension larger than said diameter dimension of said tower supports, said risers also each having an upper end and a lower end, with the one of said risers selected for use with said tower support inserted through said vertically-stacked arrangement having a length dimension complementary to the number of said growing pots in said vertically-stacked arrangement so that the topmost one of said growing pots in said vertically-stacked arrangement becomes positioned at a pre-selected height below said top end of said tower support, said selected riser positioned around the portion of said tower support under said rotation plate, with said rotation plate remaining in close association with said upper end of said riser;
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• a plurality of ground pots configured for growing bonus plants and crops under said vertically-stacked arrangement, with a selected one said ground pots associated with each said tower support, each said ground pot also having a center bottom hole approximately one-fourth-inch larger than said diameter dimension of said tower supports, and said bottom end of said tower supports positioned below said ground pot selected for use therewith, wherein drip-to-excess water and nutrient applied to growing media placed in each of said growing pots in said vertically-stacked arrangement promptly flows from said drain holes in an upper one of said growing pots into growing media in an adjacent one of said bottom corners in the next lower one of said growing pots until all growing media in all said growing pots in said vertically-stacked arrangement become fluid-saturated with little or no water and nutrient flowing into the next lower one of said growing pots via said center holes, and then excess water and nutrient flows into said associated ground pot from said drain holes in the bottom one of said growing pots in said vertically-stacked arrangement.