2023 our new gardening adventure

[jjannie]

Perhaps only running a fan on low when you are home and the water is not running would work out ok.

Grow towers updates: 

We are still getting LOTS of lettuces and bok choi - lots of salads and stir fries - LOL.  

PH is maintaining well on both. 

We've fully harvested a few of lettuces as their leaves are now getting much smaller so we could restart some seeds in their places. 

The tomatoes we grew from collected seeds have never set fruit on them. My sister-in-law says indeterminate you cannot get fruit from their seeds - maybe these were I'm not sure but maybe that's the reasoning. So, I've now started some from some seeds she's sent - they've sprouted so eventually maybe these will work better. 

We relocated a mini sweet pepper from #1 into the GH outside - it's not happy but it was getting really big and loaded and we figured it got shocked from lots of water to only once or twice a day - we'll see if it survives the move. 

We've harvested our first pickle sized cuke - they're only 4inch cukes - so we had it in what - a salad  !

I gave up on the fan idea, after thinking about it some more. I decided just to take the cover off, since it had so many blossoms anyway and after I did  those blossoms turned into cukes. I must have close to a dozen, one is about 3" long. 
Good to hear you grow towers are doing so well. Hope your new tomatoes seeds work out better for you. It will be interesting to find out how that pepper plant does, going from just water to being in dirt with less water.

I hope the new tomatoes work better for sure we'll know more by fall timeframe. 

I have several cukes set but they don't appear to be really growing very fast. So we're going to try to not trim the roots as short as we have been doing to see if that'll help them any. You just don't want them to get so long as to interfere with the pump in the bottom which would be pretty long. 

Wil let you know....