2012 Gardening + VR to being Tagged

First look at my gardening efforts for 2012 plus a video response to being tagged by Dale (dalecalder2003).

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• garden
• square-foot
• square-row
• intensive-gardening
• garlic
• hydroponic
• organic
• gardening
• seed
• starting
• indoor
• green
• gardener
• ecology

[19Photographer76]

Here we go, off and planting 2012! I still have 2 tomato plants in my grow room, they are about 5' and several rip tomatoes. I've been neglecting them and keeping them going for cloning purposes. My back has been bad for some time and just had surgery 2 weeks ago so I'll be starting up again in a couple of weeks.

My push this year will be Milkweed starts for the Oregon Recovery Project. Only a rare Monarch butterfly in Oregon due to the devistation of the milkweed by farmers (toxic to cows)

[garygardens]

@19Photographer76 Oh boy, I sure hope you're feeling better and recovering well. Will you actually grow the milkweed or just starts? Sounds like an interesting project.

Regards, Gary

[cfenster]

Wow with the exception of the one plant, they look very healthy. Great job on th HP system.

[garygardens]

@cfenster Thanks very much. It's great fun growing in hydroponics and really quite simple to do.

Regards, Gary

[soonfully]

I am amazed at your little cin garsen have never seen anything like that maybe some day u can film how u made it.

[garygardens]

@soonfully Thank you. The hydroponics are a lot of fun and the growth is nothing short of amazing. I learned to make that bin from SleestaksRule. Check out his channel. He's got a good video on making the bin and I really couldn't improve on it.

Regards, Gary

[19Photographer76]

@19Photographer76, OK - that wasn't clear, 1 Monarch Caterpillar can eat approx 20 leaves. Finding a breeder of Monarchs is being difficult, I'd like eggs and caterpillars.  The shipping restrictions are due to a type of aphid.

[19Photographer76]

@garygardens, I have 1 variety of seed on the way now and will be ordering several other types. Some have really pretty flowers and a very long flowering period of 6-8 wks. So, I've read that 1 Monarch will eat approx 20 leaves so I will need many plants in clustered areas. Milkweed can be cutback and it regrows nicely. My biggest problem is finding breeders on the west coast as there are many in Florida but they can't ship west of the Rockies.

[garygardens]

@tdjtx Thanks Tom. I do grow lettuce outside in summer. Probably could grow some now but in the cool temps it all grows so slowly plus, the hydroponic bins are a lot of fun. I do grow potatoes in buckets (smart pots) and I totally agree... They are soooo tasty. We just finished up the last from my 2011 garden.

Gary

[garygardens]

@freakygeaktwo Thanks very much and the cough is a little better every day (can't wait for tomorrow). The big bin is running with 10 gal now and the bucket with 3 gal. I'll reduce that a bit once the roots grow deeper into the nutrients.

Regards, Gary

[garygardens]

@SleestaksRule Thanks. "Early Jalapeno" is actually the name of the strain I'm growing in the bucket. It's rated for 60-65 days maturity (we'll see how that goes). I got them from Totally Tomatoes. Had an inquiry on how I made the hydroponic bin so I referred them to your video, which is where I learned it. Hope all is growing well...

Regards, Gary