Welcome to My simple home garden
I had this crazy idea to try to grow fruits and vegetables in the winter. After researching a bit I started a hydroponic garden in my basement. This blog documents my successes and failures. I probably won't have a lot of good advice, as I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, but I am hoping that other beginners will see what mistakes I have made and will be able to avoid them.
You may notice when you look at the pictures that my garden is getting more and more complicated. But as far as maintenance goes, It still is a simple home garden.
Oh, by the way, I notice many people are coming here looking for pictures of particular plants (zucchini mostly). If you need a picture of something let me know by using the contact us link at the top of the page, or leave a comment on one of the posts, and I'll do my best to take a photo of what you are looking for and posting it here.
Tom
Planted another pepper plant tonight
After a long time looking at the pepper plant just sitting there in the container and not having flowers I decided to pull it out and plant a new one.
This will be my third pepper plant. Neither of the other two plants produced a viable pepper.
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Hydroponic cucumber day 39
One plant is now about 3 feet long. The other is about 1 1/2 foot long. Both plants have male flowers, none of the flowers have opened, and no sight of a female yet.
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Hydroponic cucumbers day 37
They are still doing fine. Still waiting for a female flower, but I’m getting excited thinking cucumbers are just around the corner.
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Hydroponic cucumbers day 35
Well, my internet was out the last few days and I wasn’t able to post this. The cucumber plants are doing well.
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Eww - The smell!
Well, today I bought some airstones and a pump.
When I went to pull up one of the buckets (the tomato and cantaloupe one,) to put in an air stone, I noticed the water was BLACK. The smell of the water wasn’t very appealing either. I posted about this on gardenweb and was told that it is probably because there is no oxygen in the water. So we will see what happens now that I’ve rectified the situation.
Here is what I picked up at the local petco for about $25.00
I got two airstones, a pump, manafold, and 25′ of tubing.
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Hydroponic cucumbers day 33 - now with more flower
Today I saw the first flower on the cucumber plant. I wasn’t expecting this for a few more weeks. Yay cucumber plant!
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Hydroponic cucumbers day 31
The plants are still looking good. It looks like there are buds on the larger one. Also, the larger one seems to be starting to shoot a runner out.
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Growing challenge update
Well, this week is kind of depressing. Nothing has changed since last week. The only original plant that is still alive is the watermelon, but no matter what I do I can’t get it to pollinate.
I have started to think about what I can plant outside for the second half of summer. I keep seeing online that there are certain vegetables that you plant in spring and then later in the summer. I just have to figure out what these veggies are. Maybe it will by my own personal growing challenge part B.
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Hydroponic cucumbers day 29 - tendrils and the half way mark
Well, we are about half way to maturity now. I think these cucumbers mature at about 65 days.
I noticed the larger of the two plants had one of those tendrils that grab on to things so I uncurled it a little and curled it around the string so the plant can climb.
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Hydroponic cucumbers day 27
Sorry about the over exposed image. Don’t know what went wrong.
Anyway, on with the show. This image shows the cucumbers still doing okay. You will notice I tied one up. I was worried that it might grow too big and get top heavy and fall over.
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