My simple home garden

There is nothing alive down there anymore. I decided to try to help my venus flytrap out (which is dying) by putting it under the super bright lights of the hydroponic system. Who knows, maybe it will thrive and get rid of some pesky bugs.

Algae continues to block the return hose back to my reservoir. I think I have to clean everything out really well and start over. This time I’m going to make sure to use an opaque hose or to wrap it in electrical tape to make sure light doesn’t get in the hose.

I went down to check on the pumpkin plant in the basement and it is no more. It is all dried up and deceased. Time to start another one.

I’m determined to grow a pumpkin in my basement. I guess I’ll do some research.

It probably wasn’t good to use the pump to unflood my basement and then put it back to work without actually cleaning it ;P.

I got back from a week long vacation last night. I was tired so I went to sleep.

This morning I went down to check on my hydroponic system to see how the pumpkins are doing. What I saw caused my jaw to drop in horror. The basement was flooded. It wasn’t my system that caused the flood but a water filter for the house that blew out or something. The plumber put in cutoffs and bypass when they installed the water filter so that was an easy fix.

Next I had to deal with about 3″ of standing water on the concrete. I fortunately have a sump pump I use for my hydroponic system so I used that to empty the water into a drain pipe. After a few hours I went to clean everything up and was wondering why my MH light wasn’t shining. I turns out that it blew. So yet another thing I had to deal with. Fortunately I had a spare.

So with all this I seem to be back up and running. The pumpkin looks like it might recover. I have no idea how much water flowed but I guess I’ll find out with the next water bill. OUCH.