Project Archives
Indoor Gardening
A Sprout Indoors: At 14-Days
It's been 14-days since I started planting indoors using traditional soil. I put down three hot chillies, three bell peppers, two spinach, three iceberg lettuce, and six white onions. With daily watering and some minor rotation for the lighting, I'm starting to see...
First Aerogarden Harvest
Today was my first harvest from the Aerogarden. For those unaware, an aerogarden is a type of basic, easy-to-use, small hydroponics system. It has a built-in light, water basin, room for some foam cores, and conveniently flashes a little light to remind you when you...
Food Security
This past spring I took the plunge and tried to grow something. I started a whole bunch of plants in my sunroom: tomatoes, green beans, potatoes, onions, carrots, and peppers. I thought I would be lucky if I managed a single tomato. Instead, I began a journey toward...
Winter 2022 –
Fall 2023
Plantings
Harvests
Servings
What’s Growing?
Hydroponics
2021-22 was my first year trying to grow anything indoors. I primarily used a 6-pod Aerogarden for hydroponics, but added a 12-pod iDoo unit during the summer. For some plants it was a very successful year, especially the thai chillies and basil, whose root balls filled the aerogarden and needed to be removed.
For the 2022-23 year, I’m leaving more space between my pods. I’m trying some different plants, now that there’s more spacing. I believe some were strangled out by Thai Basil and Thai Chillies las year, so everything is restarted from scratch. Again, I have a total of 18 pods between 2 units.
Winter 2021 – Fall 2022
Summary:
Extremely successful (>20 harvests):
- Thai Basil
- Thai Chillies
Very successful (11-20 harvests):
- Deer Tongue
- Red Sails
- Bok Choy
- Iceberg Lettuce
Mildly successful (1-9 harvests):
- Black Seeded Simpson
- Rouge d’Hiver
- Paris Island
- Spinach
Complete Failures (0 harvests):
- Mint
- Dill
- Marvel of 4 Seasons
- Bell Peppers
Winter 2022 – Fall 2023
Mint
- First Planted: 15 October 2022
- First Harvest: TBD
Plantings
Harvests
Bell Peppers
- First Planted: 15 October 2022
- First Harvest: TBD
Plantings
Harvests
Thai Chillies
- First Planted: 15 October 2022
- First Harvest: TBD
Plantings
Harvests
Cherry Tomatoes
- First Planted: 15 October 2022
- First Harvest: TBD
Plantings
Harvests
Iceberg Lettuce
- First Planted: 15 October 2022
- First Harvest: TBD
Plantings
Harvests
Romaine Lettuce
- First Planted: 2 January 2023
- First Harvest: TBD
Plantings
Harvests
Bok Choy
- First Planted: 15 October 2022
- First Harvest: TBD