2023 our new gardening adventure

[wiperhunter2]

28 May

I know it's been a while since I've updated this but not very much is new. 

I'm still doing the weekly root trimmings and adding ph down and nutrients to the water. The Ph has still been VERY stabilized.  

In #2 - we 've had to start harvesting lettuces and baby bok choy because once they get too large their weight is too much to allow the grow basket to stay seated in their holes so it gets watered and the fed nutrients. 

In #1 - we are still harvesting tons of lettuces and its baby bok choy. I'm going to try freezing some bok choy to see how that works - some say you can some say you can't, so we'll see how that goes. 

In both - I've been using a personal sized fan on both to help the tomatoes (that have yet to set any fruit at all) and all the kinds of peppers and cukes all of which normally just get wind pollinated. We'll see if this helps any produce set fruit better. Using the little fan is just so much faster than using my little paint brush every day.

On #2 when you say you had to harvest the lettuces and baby bok choy, does that mean you had to remove the plants and start over with them?
So are you saying that you are using a fan to pollinate your tomatoes, peppers and cukes and that is how they get pollinated when outdoors normally? So bees don't pollinate them normally? That will be very interesting to find out if the fan works because I could use one inside my hoop green house instead of just leaving them open.

I use the fan inside on the grow towers because there is no natural wind. Bees can help some but guess they aren't the main pollinator on those plants from what I read. 

Haven't harvested #2's plants only there farthest outside leaves so they won't try to push themselves out of grow baskets and drip water falling past them. I suppose a fan on low, especially if it oscillates to circulate the air under those hoops should work the same way though.

Ok, that makes sense, did not think you used them outdoors but I wasn't sure. To use a fan outdoors could be a problem in an wet environment so I think I'll pass on that this year.