Summer 2011 Garden

I have planted some local heirloom tomatoes this year, they are supposed to do well in the heat. The squash has really taken off. I have yellow and gray planted.

New Aquaponic set up and hydro tomatoes doing well!

The tomatoes have taken off and done well in the top drip and deep water culture buckets. The ones I had in the ebb and flow didn't do as well and so I will be converting those systems to top drip ones.
The aquaponic setup is an Emily's Garden base with fish water that is pumped up to it with koi in the tote. So far the only problem is a plugged line that goes back to the fish tote. I put a filter over the drain and it fixed the problem.

Hydroponics Craze

Winter veggie harvest, beets, turnips and onions

The cold winter snap we had followed by the record heat, prompted the winter veggies to start bolting. So I picked most all of the beets, turnips and kale. I still have swiss chard I will pick soon.

Wicking Table

This is a soiless wicking table I decided to try. Growing with a batting like material as a base + fertilizer and then top it off with tree mulch. There is a 5 gallon bucket inverted with a small hole in it for water drainage. The idea behind it came from rooftop gardening sites.

Construction of the new salad table

I started making this box for a raised bed garden, then decided to convert it into a salad table. It is made out of an old door put on some bricks for height, cut boards for the sides and some plastic cement mixing bins from Home Depot. I built a small pvc frame to hold the bins on one side. I lined the box with plastic sheeting and will build a pvc frame with plastic over it to hold in moisture. In the bins I put plastic berry containers for a self watering container system.

Peppers everywhere!!

Yellow, red and green peppers are looking good. The eggplants are growing nicely also. They like the cooler nights and are still blooming.