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
Mokum carrots day 20
While it is about day 50 for the regular carrots, I’m not seeing much growth over time. It seems like they are staying the same size and just dying one by one.
On the other hand, a few Mokum carrots have sprouted. It is day 20 and they are supposed to be picked around day 50 or so. Like the other carrots, I doubt it will follow that time line. Time will tell though.
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Growing challenge update
Well, this week has been pretty depressing. Nothing seems to be growing. The whole garden seems to be going down hill. I’m kind of in a sad state. Too cheer me up I took a picture of the cucumber plant which is the only plant that seems to still be growing well.
Here it is for all those that are interested.
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Hydroponic zucchini day 7
Nothing to report again. No sprouting yet. I’m kind of giving up hope. I’ll hold off posting until I see some action.
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Hydroponic zucchini day 5
Still no change. It is sitting in a cup next to my tv, so I’m keeping a close eye on it.
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Hydroponic carrots day 44
One of the carrots I planted two weeks ago has sprouted. Other than that nothing in the carrot container has changed much. There is still some green in there so stuff still lives, Seems like it won’t be carrots in 20 days, but I’ll hold out hope.
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Hydroponic zucchini day 3
No pictures today. The seed still hasn’t germinated. We probably have a few more days to wait.
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Growing Challenge update
The watermelon plants look okay. Still haven’t been able to get any fruit to set though. The carrots I started aren’t really looking super. They aren’t dead, but they aren’t looking healthy either. The second batch of carrots hasn’t sprouted yet and it has been about 15 days. I’m kind of sad right now not having anything looking strong and healthy in my garden.
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Today I went through and created a page dedicated to the hydroponic cucumber plants I grew
Here is a link to the page:
http://www.mysimplehomegarden.com/garden/?page_id=156
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Hydroponic zucchini day 1
Now that the cucumber plant is doing its thing I am starting another zucchini plant.
Here is a picture of the seeds in rockwool, in a cup, with a ziplock bag over it. I poked some holes in the the bag to let some air in. I hope it is enough.
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Hydroponic cucumber day 57 - Final update
Well, I’ve taken you from seed to first fruit with pictures of the plant every other day. I hope you all liked the frequent updates. I plan to put a page together with thumbnails of all the pictures I took.
Just because I am no longer going to do the updates doesn’t mean that I won’t post if something interesting happens with the plant. Also, if anyone has any requests for pictures or info that I haven’t posted, I will be happy to respond to them.
My next endevor will be to do the same kind of thing to a zucchini plant as I did with the cucumber plant.
Stay tuned.
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