2009 Garden Pics
Latest Pictures are first
Approx. 2 hrs after I made the below statement,
I grilled some burgers and enjoyed some of the best lettuce I've ever had!
I had so much lettuce after that, the ducks consistently ran up to me
waiting for a whole stalk/plant of lettuce for them to hork down their gullets!
August 12th pics
Aquaponics Update
The latest updates have only been a few days apart,
but things are growing rapidly in this system!
The corn has an ear of corn starting to grow
on it and it is only a couple feet tall?!?
The cucumber plant is starting to vine,
and the tomato plants are getting lopsided
so I had to start hanging wires down to tidy things up.
The lettuce looks like it's ready for burgers or a salad already,
that didn't take very long! It was planted sometime in July.
I'll let it go a little longer before I start snipping some off.
August 8th 2009
Aquaponics Update
Row 1
Corn is really tall and a tomato plant bloomed.
Row 2
The cucumber plant on left going great, the one on the right shriveled up for some reason.
Leaf lettuce is much taller.
Row 3
A Spaghetti squash growing right above everything, -=the squash is not in the system=-,
and an onion test that seems to be going well. (sry so blurry on that one)
July 28th
The new aquaponics system is doing great!
Added a third watercourse and filled it with some pond plants.
The corn is so big now it's pushing out of the rocks see the roots?
Some leaf lettuce is coming along nice along with some cucumbers.
Did some cleanup and moved my system over and did some re-plumbing and design changes.
The stalk of corn was started in the old system in a cup with rocks.
The tray towards the back that looks empty has leaf lettuce sprouting all over.
Spaghetti squash on the fencing is producing alot. You can see it going up over the top of my frame.
June 2009
Did some rearranging in the garden.
Moved the night lighting around, planted some house plants in the garden for the summer
and installed an Aquaponics test system inline with the pond filter.
Need some clay flower pots? I have a few extra.
June 18th
The first bloom on the cactus.
May 2009 photo of the garden
This is my Blue Spruce tree. I didn't want it to get any
taller so I've been shaping it into a popcicle on a stick shape.
Found 3 Praying Mantis cocoons
in my Forsythia Bushes.
Built a new pond filter.
The Cactus Getting Ready To Bloom
This little patch had 72 blooms last year.