2023 our new gardening adventure

[jjannie]

We checked and still an 8.5 so added 2 more scoops and will check again later today. Also checked the melted snow water and it was a 6.5. So, we'll see what ours is later today. 

Tomorrow is our 'maintenance' day and we're supposed to add nutrients and adjust the ph (LOL) and trim any roots (which we won't have any at this point).

Wow, that's strange, you would think the Ph in snow water would be the same as rain water, makes me wonder if the water Ph just sitting in the bottles you shore it in, could have gone up just sitting there for months. How long do the roots have to be before you trim them?

not sure of difference really but we'll check on our fresh rainwater later this year. You can trim roots back really far; some even do it to it up to the grow basket. Jeff's sister said she does 4/5ths or so and you can trim them pretty far back. What you won't want is to have any roots interfering with the pump at the bottom. I found a little video that show the water flow system - I'll attempt to attach it.... this doesn't have glow rings on it but you can get the idea. Each layer of planting holes inside the layer water gets funnel-dripped right over top of each grow basket watering them.