Harvest was 45 days...

I forgot to post on here but my harvest ended up being 45 days. Longer than the planned 30 but I suspect it is because we keep our home cool and that kept growth slow. Here is one of the heads from harvest...

The results were awesome! And the lettuce smells and tastes so good! Batch two is already started. More on that later in another post.

11 Days Later

Here are some photos of the lettuce 11 days after the last ones. Pretty awesome in my book :)

7 Days Later

Here we are 7 days later.



Lettuce is doing well. As I mentioned, this is my first hydroponics bed so I am excited to see how well it is doing.

We will be away for 10 days so I will post another update when we get back.

Until then, be green....

First update in over a year.

This is going to be an exciting year for us. I can hardly believe we did not post anything here in 2013. We will try to be better about that in 2014.

As you can see we have started growing some hydroponic lettuce. This is our first venture down this road but so far we are liking it.

2014 also has a rather large move in store for us. We just purchased a house and just under 4 acres in southern North Carolina. The place even had a 1/2 acre pond and a small greenhouse! Plus chickens!

We are excited and can not wait to see what 2014 had in store for us in sunny North Carolina. Until next time eat, grow, and think green!

Tom Thumb Peas

Noticed today I have a lone pea pod! Two days short from one month since I put the seed in the ground. Exciting! Tomato plants now under their own light and stand covered on three sides in reflective foil( not shown)
. Lettuce doing great as well as all the other plants!

Lettuce Update

Looks like the first gutter is ready to start trimming. Gutter 2 is slow moving but coming. And gutter 3 is about to get planted.

Indoor Garden Update

This evening I transplanted my tomato plants in to larger pots. I am hopeful that they will remain in these pots. They are doing so well so far.

I also transplanted my Tom Thumb Peas in to what I hope is their final home. These peas are a bush type and should have plenty of room.

Pepper plants are also doing well. Not fast growers but soon they will also move in to larger spaces.

Lastly rain gutter two had some germination issues and they were my own fault. No worries, I will seed some more and gutter three is not to far off. Gutter one looks great! Salads will start happening very soon.

My plants are growing fast enough that soon I will need to work on my second grow stand. I knew I would need one but didn’t figure on it this fast.

Growing is fun!

Namaste