Basil in the Autopot...

So I have a plan:

• Tomatoes in the NFT, in the house, and in grow bags in the greenhouse.
• Pepper plants in the Solargrow in the greenhouse.
• Basil in the Autopot in the greenhouse.

Yesterday, May 13th, I set up the Basil in the Autopot. The instructions recommend combining soil and perlite so replanted the basil again today, increasing the amount of perlite.

Tomatoes look happy in the greenhouse but I think the peppers are finding the evenings a little cold. Some of them are looking a bit sad first thing in the morning. They perk up during the day so hopefully they will be OK.

Yesterday, I ordered a thermometer so that will help tell me more about what is happening in the greenhouse.

All good - all exciting. :-)

Greenhouse is up!

It took a while but the greenhouse is up. It looks great and a picture will follow soon. I took a bit of time off work last Monday and with the help of the guy from Quality Buildings, we got the whole thing finished. Chris Pepper helped the previous weekend and finally it has plants growing in it and it looks great. All very exciting!

Eat your thinnings...

I have read recently about micro leaves and seen a little film on them. It seems to me (and my wife) that it's just eating the thinnings which we've been doing for ages. This picture shows a salad of 'micro-leaves', herbs and weeds (hairy bittercress) that I had for lunch today along side a lovely savory tart made my wife. This salad had at least ten different components and was very tasty!

An extra Holiday Watering Kit

I was quite surprised by the five boxes that awaited me from Greenhouse Sensation. Confused during ordering, I ordered the Solargrow... then I added the Holiday Watering Kit thinking that I would probably be away for a week or so over the summer. Then I decided to add the frame too so changed my order. I failed to notice that there was a Holiday Watering Kit included in the Solargrow that included the frame so now I have two Holiday Watering Kits!!! Strangely the two Kits don't seem to have quite the same pieces but I will have to check through carefully to see the differences.

N.B. Greenhouse Sensation say on their website that "(* Please note that Holiday Watering must be ordered along side your growing kit as it can not be added at a later date)". However, having checked the pieces I can't see why this is really the case. Adding the Holiday Watering Kit afterwards might be a little awkward - you might even have to drill a hole but it's NOT impossible and I would think CAN be added a later date! Don't be bullied into ordering it just by their warning. I emailed them about this just now.

Windowgrow seems to work....

So the Windowgrow system seems to work. The seedlings are growing. I had to top up last night because the watering indicator was resting on the bottom rather than floating up and telling me it was full. A liter of water (with 6ml of each of the two nutrient solutions) was sufficient to have the indicator read 'Full'. I also turned it around on the window to stop the seedlings growing permanently at a tilt. Looking forward to some nice salads in a few weeks....

More hyrdoponics kit arrives...

My order from Greenhouse Sensations arrived last Friday. Five boxes of kit. A bit too much I suspect. I set up the Windowbox, on the south facing bedroom window, over the weekend and transplanted some salad seedlings.

NFT Tomatoes

Tomatoes started off in my hydroponics unit, yesterday. They already seem to be growing.