How is your hydroponic garden doing?

oh my, i forgot to post about it. maybe i will create an album here? we look like a jungle. we have figured out all of the mistakes we made this year (and there were many) and next year it will be double the jungle.

the amazing thing is nothing can keep these plants down. the vandals tried but most came back to life. it slowed them but we actually have to walk from one side to the other on the outside of the structure. there are many many cucumbers of both the pickling and seedless varieties, we have picked several sweet type peppers (cubanella seems to be a favorite) and it looks like the jalapeno plant is about to lose its first pepper to my greedy hands. the string beans have been wonderful. i will be cooking our fourth pot full for dinner tonight.

the tomatoes are interesting. we have some very unusual cherry tomato plant that looks more like an asian mini tree than tomatoes and the others that survived the vandals, which are all roma, probably have more than 500 green tomatoes on them that should ripen over the next few weeks and many hundreds of flowers that will grow and ripen while we are in aruba.

the funny thing is someone brought over more cucumbers of some variety that they had grown from seed and we potted them. they are starting to grow. plus somehow they thought we wanted sunflowers so they are now potted and growing. add to that mix the watermelons and cantaloupes that wouldn't die and our very first watermelon growing hydroponically is now about 3".

now aren't you sorry you asked, lol. i will post pictures when i get thru using the treadmill (first attempt after getting it) and run my errands.

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Wow! What a great yield! Can't wait to see the pictures!!

there are now 8 pics in an album. will update it again in a week or so.

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OMG!!! When you said jungle you weren't kidding! I just loved your baby watermelon. Do you do alot of canning?

Bobbie

canning? to be honest the only thing i ever used a canning jar for was, cutting a slit in the lid and making it into a bank, lol. i suppose with all of these tomatoes we will be learning. although i do have a big freezer. anyone want tomato sauce? also, thinking of making some pickles. however, i just bit into the first pickling cucumber and it was so good that i like it better than burpless. i wonder if i can pickle burpless cukes? next year's garden will be more thought out. we have great ideas for it and are hoping to grow from seed.

now if all of you lived near here we could have a harvest party. get out the tiller...oops, i suppose that's for a garden bigger than 10'x20'.

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W-O-W!!!!!! What growth!!!! Congrats on your crop!!!

thanks! we just pulled more veggies off and the watermelon is about 3 inches wide today.

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Sherri...Where are these pictures...and what do you mean by vandals...Like someone tried to damage it all...or are you talking animals?

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dan, we went out to the garden one day a few days after we got back from aruba and found two of the 4 sections of the structure turned upside down. the water had drained and the plants in all sections since there is only water to support their growth were all nearly dead. we figure it happened within an hour or two of checking it the night before. a few didn't survive too well. the two cherry tomatoes remain stunted. beautiful plants but the oddest cherry tomatoes we have ever seen. most of the rest did come back with a lot of tender care but it set the growing cycle back by at least a week or two.

the pictures are on our new all albums section. to to the top of this page and you will see highlighted in dark green with light print, a line saying 'user cp, all albums, blogs, faq, members list, calendar, new posts'...

click on 'all albums'. it is there. it is only about 8 pictures from the other day. if you click on each picture it will expand its size. remember, all plants are being grown without soil including the watermelon.

we now have our own albums section. that means we can put any pictures we want into albums and leave them for any or all to see. we also have (as you can see on that same line) our new blogs section. check it out and then create your own. it is really easy to use.

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