Had a very small garden this year, mostly in containers. The tomatoes and cucumbers did okay in the “Earth Box” made from a Rubbermaid Roughneck 18 gallon container, and the potatoes were an interesting experiment. I had taken a 50…
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Indoor Salad Garden – Cukes Climb to the Rafters
We’ve ignored the cucumber in the cellar for the last several weeks with the exception of watering them once. The L.E.D. lights are on for ten hours per day, and total 25 watts of power, or 1KW every four days,…
Steamer Salad Update
The lettuce has been doing well, but seems to have “lost it’s steam” – so to speak. Each “steamer salad makes about one garden salad with the addition of some tomatoes and some chives, making it a viable option…
Spinach Steamer Indoor Garden
Popeye would be proud. These are after about two weeks, and the main leaves are starting in. In the background are the lettuce plants I over planted figuring I’d eat the thinnings, which I have – though I find thinning…
Indoor Salad Garden – Steamer Salad
Don’t recycle those fancy microwave steamers just yet – they make a great starter container for just about everything you can transplant as well as for salads from start to finish. Healthy Choice (available at your favorite supermarket in…
It’s Time to Start Planning
One of the best ways to have a successful garden is to look over the fence: what have your neighbors successfully grown? If your passion is figs and you’re in the USA Zone 5, you will have a hard time…
Lettuce in the Silos 3/16/2013 – Cut and Come, Mow and Grow, Plow and Chow
The lettuce continues to grow, and the one on the right is doing so well, I decided to pick a salad now. Picked 0.75 oz or a small garden salad’s worth from the one on the right, and it’s still…
Potted Carrots
Over three pounds of carrots from a single pot! Here they are using an “autopot” which is meant for hydroponics, but they find that rooted plants do better in soil. After four months, 3.3 lbs (1.5 kilos) of carrots of…
Indoor Salad Gardening
Learn how you can take a small space and create a salad garden indoors without the threat of bugs, varmints, or inclement weather! You can grow most if not all of your favorite salad fixings right inside your home and not have…
Tomato Planters for Gardeners on the Go
Snowy Sundays always give me a little time to poke around on the net, and we found a couple of interesting tomato planters that could also be used for cucumbers and other tall plants. The first one that caught my…
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