Sunday, January 10, 2010

And a wholesome Happy New Year. followers and visitors! This is the only thing growing here for me. There is around 3 foot of snow outside now. I've taken the jump into hydroponics a little more deeper. The two silver things are what they call DWC (Deep Water Culture). Basically they are generic Aerogardens. Instead of pumping water - they pump air in the water to produce a "mist" on the growing net which allows the other medium called hydroton which wicks the water up to the plant. The other plants in the photo include 4 types of peppers (Bhut, Cherry, Peter, Cayenne) and two types of tomato.
The fall harvest went VERY quick. We took ALOT of green cherry/grape type tomatoes off the vine and brought them inside for ripening. This is the first time ever we have ripened tomatoes inside. We used bananas for this.
The large leftover tomatoes didn't last, they basically rotted since we never allowed them air flow (Lesson learned).
We also have a current cucumber plant (actually 6) growing in another room.

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