(HARLINGEN) – Texas State Technical College Agricultural Technology students were able to use a $2,000 donation gifted to their department by the Harlingen Cotton Committee to create and maintain vegetable tower gardens in the program’s greenhouse.

As part of the Horticulture course in the associate degree track, students use the towers to grow cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, cilantro and jalapenos without soil, using only air and water in a method called hydroponics.

Harlingen Cotton Committee members pictured with the TSTC Agricultural Technology students are Brady Taubert, chairman; Sally Ross, committee member; and Steve Krenek, former chairman.