 Hello, and welcome to Getting Clean on the Prairies. It's a beautiful sunny morning down here in the growing room here, and I'm just looking at some of my plants that I've had growing in the cracky method for about two or three months now. Some of them have done well, some of them are still going, such as my cucumbers. But I think it's time to do a final harvest and clean up a few things and focus on starting some new stuff. So over here I have my green bean plant, and this has gone very well. Let's see if we can see some beans here. So it is something that I just wanted to try to see if I could grow indoors, and as you can see it grew into a nice healthy plant. But at the end of the day you only end up with a small feeding of green beans. So I'm not sure if I would do it again, but I would still call this a successful experiment. Down here was some peas that I planted. They took off and they grew and they grew all the way up my rack here, but they never did bloom or produce. And I kind of neglected them. I didn't really do much other than refresh the water a few times, but they're pretty much dead. So I'm going to remove them and clean out the containers. The strawberry that I thought was taking off and coming seems to have died off. So I'm not sure why, but it's another one that's going to have to get cleaned up. My romaine lettuce that I had growing in this tub here kind of bolted, and I hadn't been harvesting it regularly like I was through Christmas, not eating as many salads as I should be. So I think I'm going to do a final harvest on this. And start a new fresh batch. As you can see, I've been harvesting layers as they grow. And there's still some really nice green leaves on here. But I think it's just time to pull them out and refresh this container, clean the container. I've also still got lots of arugula coming and lettuce growing in a couple of these. So I like to keep the lettuce going ongoing. So I'm going to do some harvesting today. And I've got two new, I think this is butter crunch lettuce started here. So I'll always have lettuce on the go. I've got another good three, four months before we'll be growing outside. So lettuce is something that I would like to keep going and have a good supply of. So this is my infamous Aero Garden tomato experiment. It's quite an ugly looking thing, but it has given me probably five or six tomatoes. And as you can see, this is the Roma plant that has probably three or four ripe romas. Now they're not very big, so you can see they're just tiny. But I think it's time to retire these two plants. They are at about 90 some days, I believe. So unless you have a very large indoor growing space, I would say these are something probably best left to grow outdoors where you've got a lot more space and can get a lot more beans off of it. So these will be going into the garden next year. So I've removed the peas from the side of my shelf here and making a nice little toy from my cat, Ron, to play with. But you can see they made a good mess all over the floor as well. They did not produce so growing peas indoors in the cracking method will probably not happen again. So when you pull the plants out of your containers here, you'll see that all the clay balls are kind of intertwined into the roots. So what I like to do is try to save as many as I can. I will be washing and bleaching all my clay balls so that I can reuse them again. And from what I've read, these rock wells are not compostable. So I try to not put them into the compost. I will just throw them in the garbage. Okay, so there's the final harvest off this. That should get me through in the next few days. Let's see. I've got these off. And these I did start in the rock wall to try to get all the clay balls out of here. Look where the rock wall is and just put that right to the garbage. So compost. Compost. So these net pots and the clay balls will get washed. I am just going to go get rid of this water. Okay, so I have officially pulled the plug on my two AeroGarden Tomatoes I have grown here. I was about to remove it and I see the my Cucamalon has attached itself to the back. So I'm just going to carefully remove all those. And we're going to tackle the harvesting and cleaning of the AeroGarden. So we have five of them. Not very big. So as you can see, there's a lot of dry to crusty stuff here from the hydroponic nutrients kind of spilling over and drying. So there's going to be a lot of cleaning involved here. They have quite heavy stalks. It's kind of hard. It feels bad doing this, but there's the first plant. This was the Roma Tomato one. The Russian Saskatchewan here had, I kind of hacked it down quite a bit and pruned it. But again, it still had lots of blooms coming. So you can take this apart. There is a cord here at the back and lift off the tank. So you can remove it from this base here. So this part will just need a little bit of a wipe down. We can get it out of the way. So I'm going to try pulling these out. So these are the plastic cones that come with the AeroGarden when you first buy it. And instead of using the expensive pods, replacement pods that they want you to buy, I just used some Rockwell to start the seeds and it worked good. So I'm going to try and clean these and reuse these. Just pull the top off. There is all the roots from two tomatoes. I think it'll be easier if I cut it down here. It smells so good. It just smells like fresh tomatoes. Trying to cut through the roots without cutting these plastic cones at the roots or that the seeds were started in. So there's what one looks like there. Move the balls. I just put a layer of them at the top to keep the light out. Then hard ball of roots in here. I'm sure the best way may be to push off. This might be the easiest way is just to push down. I'm going to go at it with my scissors here. I just need to chop through it and then it comes out. So we still have a bit of the stalk here in some of the Rockwell. This Rockwell does break down pretty good, so I'm just going to toss it into the garbage. This should be able to wash it and sterilize it and reuse it again. The next one, maybe this one will go a little faster now that I got the technique figured out. Push a couple more chops here. There we go. So now what we have left here is this lid, which should be easy enough to clean. I'll just put it in the sink and use a little scrub brush on it. Move all the roots on the bottom part here. We have all the tomato roots. I'll just go down. Okay, so not so bad. Again, just some water, little bleach and a scrub brush. Should be able to get this aero garden cleaned up and back in action in no time. Okay, so we have finished harvesting our lettuce, some beans and tomatoes. We also got rid of the pea plants and the strawberry, I guess. So from that, all of this here can be washed, sterilized and reused again. All of this will go into the compost. And this is all that's going to go into the garbage. So I'm pretty happy with that. Okay, so I have the clay balls just soaking here in a solution of water and some vinegar. And I use a green bleach product such as this. You can use regular bleach, but I prefer to try and use something more organic and chemical free. So I've got some of the splash of that and probably half a cup of vinegar in here. So I'm just going to soak them, try to get all the chunks of leaves and stuff to soak come to the surface and I'll strain them out. And then I just strain like this. And I would say to not dump your water down the drain because the residue off of these clay balls can clog your pipes or drains. So I would suggest that you dump your water outside. Okay, so everything is cleaned up and we are ready to do some more growing. It's time to go through the seeds and get some more sprouting so we can grow some more indoor food. I hope you found this video helpful and if you haven't already, please subscribe to my channel and don't forget to hit the notification bell to be notified when a new one is up on the channel. Thanks for joining me.