Also, you might notice the new lettuce variety front and center there. I bought some butter crunch lettuce from Costco that was hydroponically grown. When I got to the end of it, I left a few leaves and thought I'd see if it would re-grow roots and grow a new head of lettuce for me. It's looking pretty good and it's been in there for two days now.
The pea shoot in the aquaponics bed is beyond leggy, which matches the pathetic lettuce plant. Only after the fact have I finally gotten around to actually switching the lights around. The aquaponic tank now has the good grow light. It looks wonderful and produces more heat to keep the area warm (it's in the basement and it can be a little chilly in the winter). The entire set up, including turtle tank, turtle light, aquaponic bed, and grow light... I'm pretty impressed that I could create something like this (with a lot of help from Tony of course). Aside from a little algae growth, the turtle tank has pretty clean water (considering Minnow is a very messy turtle). I haven't had to siphon the tank at all since we installed the aquaponic bed. I'm not sure if it's too late for the pea plant. If it is, I think next I will try a decidedly smaller version (Tom Thumb Pea). I still figure I have space for up to three more plants. I'm considering trying a Tiny Tim tomato, but I've had no luck in previous years trying to pollinate tomatoes indoors (without natural insect pollinators). Tony suggested trying Rosemary, but I've had no luck at all with that. I've tried it in a seed starting mix under lights, I've tried winter sowing it, but have yet to get any rosemary plants out of the attempts. Maybe I'll try more lettuce varieties, or perhaps some spinach. Suggestions are welcome!
Also, you might notice the new lettuce variety front and center there. I bought some butter crunch lettuce from Costco that was hydroponically grown. When I got to the end of it, I left a few leaves and thought I'd see if it would re-grow roots and grow a new head of lettuce for me. It's looking pretty good and it's been in there for two days now. Comments are closed.
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