It’s the middle of the {season} in {your hemisphere}.

How are things growing? Or not growing?

Any successes you’d like to share?

Any challenges that have made you learn?

Have you gotten to eat much of what you’ve grown?

How’s it going fellow gardeners?

  • sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    15 days ago

    Yo yo yo, one two one two, 9a represent kim-drip

    So far I’d say this year has been a modest success! Only my second growing season in this place. Small garden in an urban environment so my sunlight is limited and I have to make the best of it. Also my first year with a sort-of-proper greenhouse:

    I have a good mixture of hydro and soil plants. It’s really incredible how much more efficient hydroponics is, really astounding.

    I built an unorthodox NFT/dutch bucket combo system with a shared reservoir (mostly due to limited space). I put a bunch of different types of plants in the NFT just to see what grows well, and the dutch bucket are all ghost peppers. This year I learned that leafy greens don’t like the same hydro nutrients that fruiting plants do, which is a drawback of the system I built. Also, I’ve learned to not overcrowd, it makes aphids practically impossible to deal with effectively. Sons of bitches all.

    This is my second year growing cape gooseberries in my original dutch bucket system from last year. This greenhouse is called “The Green Diaper”. Much more successful this time around. I’ve got a bunch of fruit growing this year. Fucking ants fucked up my shit last year and raided all my flowers and berries, 1000 curses upon them. Apparently all I had to do was grease the “legs” of my greenhouse with vaseline.

    For my soil plants, wine-bottle / terracotta spike irrigation stays winning. I’ve got like two dozen of these things in different grow bags and whatnot and they’re so god damned efficient. I only have to refill them once per week, and they auto slow-release water as-needed to the plants, and almost directly to their root system (so any of you who live in drought-prone areas with dry soil, look no further). 10/10 recommend.

    greensicko-laser

    Edit: And, for the second year in a row, I’ve learned that hydroponic tomatoes are just stupidly efficient. They manspread their tentacles everywhere and cover everything around them. Horniest damn plant I’ve ever seen. So, best to keep them on their own and away from other plants.

    • ANarcoSnowPlow [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      I had this system set up for continuously monitoring and adjusting VPD in my grow tent and when you do that and have good control on your nutrient solution deep water culture will give you growth you could never dream of in soil. But… It’s time and effort to get it dialed in because of your ph is off for 24 hours… You can destroy everything just as quick lol.

      Excellent setup though, it’s impressive!