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Late summer squash

Started a few squash plants indoors over the last couple of weeks. Transplanted to a self watering container today. This time I drilled 4 holes in the lid so after the seedling was planted, a wire cage could be inserted. Now, as the plant grows, I do not have to find created ways to stake the plant as it gets taller. I do not know why I did not think of this with the tomatoes. We had a couple of massive wind storms early in the season and nearly lost 2 plants. I should have pre-staked them!

Basil a plenty

Thanks, Kait, for this ever producing basil plant. This is in a self watering container (aka, recycled kitty litter container) and gets regular feedings with Dutch Master gold grow nutrient. This plant came as a seedling and is now 1.5 feet tall and we can't eat it fast enough.

I suppose this dispels the old southern myth that you should never thank the giver of a plant for it will lead to its demise.

Peppers on the Vine

Here are a couple of peppers growing in a topsy turvy made especially for peppers. You can search our posts and find photos of this hanging on the front porch earlier in the season. It has openings for 8 plants. When these wrap up in a couple of weeks, I am going to plant a late summer crop of fish peppers and nosegay peppers (ornamental marble size) to carry us into the fall. These seedlings are growing now under a sunsystem HPS 150. They are nearly ready for transplant outdoors. I will start hardening them off tomorrow.

Waterfarm - General Hydroponics

Here is a batch of delicious variety tomatoes growing in a waterfarm from General Hydroponics.

It drinks about a gallon every 72 hours at this growth rate. Adding nutrient at each refill. These are ready to pick.

Time to Say Goodbye

It was time to say goodbye to a batch of hydroponic tomato plants. This set up had 3 pickle buckets tethered by a 1/2 inch black hose at the bottom of each bucket to allow the nutrient to free flow back and forth. A pump in one bucket pumped the nutrient up into another 1/2 in black hose forming a circle and then drip lines were run to each plant. The plants had pretty much run their course and I decided it was time to break them down. This is the root ball of one of the plants. I believe this was a delicious/jetsonic tomato.