Shawn
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Post by Shawn on Feb 4, 2021 5:48:11 GMT -5
Share with us your best and worst projects to date and why you rated them as such. You can have more then one in each category.
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Sher
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Post by Sher on Feb 4, 2021 7:43:38 GMT -5
My favorites: 1. Sweet Heat Peppers. They are delicious and prolific. They provided enough peppers to make the projects very rewarding.
2. Aerogarden Heirloom Tomatoes. With aggressive pruning, the harvest of tasty cherry tomatoes goes on and on.
My biggest disappointments:
(This does not include the three disasters I have had using Ferry Morse seeds.)
1. Parthenocarpic cucumbers. I have tried Little Leaf Arkansas and Mini Munch. For some reason I am unable to successfully grow them. Other people have great success. Mine form vines loaded with baby cucumbers that never develop and mature.
2. Danish Flag Nemesia. They got hit by bugs that must have infected them with a disease. The leaves curled up tightly, became streaked with yellow, shriveled, and the bottom leaves turned black before I put them out of their misery.
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maskedsonnet
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Post by maskedsonnet on Feb 4, 2021 8:04:49 GMT -5
Favorite: pretty much any type of pepper, except for bells which I've never grown successfully in AG. Literally every other type of pepper I've planted in there has taken off, and I LOVE them to bits and pieces every time. I also love the coleus, that will be a repeat project for sure.
Biggest disappointments have been chives and cilantro - they just don't have the space inside an AG sponge to thrive the way I want them to. They're never unhealthy, really, they just never look as big and bushy as I expect so I'm always afraid to harvest from them.
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Shawn
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Post by Shawn on Feb 4, 2021 8:06:35 GMT -5
maskedsonnet, have you ever tried Burpee Cilantro? I have not been disappointed and I harvest so much. I have found other vendors do not fair like Burpee.
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maskedsonnet
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Post by maskedsonnet on Feb 4, 2021 8:08:42 GMT -5
maskedsonnet , have you ever tried Burpee Cilantro? I have not been disappointed and I harvest so much. I have found other vendors do not fair like Burpee. I haven't! The cilantro I grow usually comes from the seed selection at Walmart, which always thrives outside but no where else. I'll have to get Burpee to try out next time I start a new project! |
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Shawn
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Post by Shawn on Feb 4, 2021 8:20:43 GMT -5
maskedsonnet , have you ever tried Burpee Cilantro? I have not been disappointed and I harvest so much. I have found other vendors do not fair like Burpee. I haven't! The cilantro I grow usually comes from the seed selection at Walmart, which always thrives outside but no where else. I'll have to get Burpee to try out next time I start a new project!
If you want a few seeds, message me your information and I can get some in the mail.
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hakaku
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Post by hakaku on Feb 4, 2021 14:09:15 GMT -5
Favorites: I've grown far too many things. This is a tough one.  I might have to go with: - Red Komatsuna (a mustard plant). It always germinates and grows well, tastes similar to lettuce but has a crunchier taste, and can withstand heat better. It also just looks very pretty.
- Scarlet Kale. It's just got such a beautiful purple-red color.
- Cinnamon Basil. It grows really well, bushes out similar to Thai Basil, but it has such a nice flavor perfect for soup.
Biggest disappointments: I would have to say that parsley, cilantro and chervil are my biggest indoor disappointments. I've had issues with them sprouting sometimes, and even if they do, they barely ever grow or their leaves don't look good at all. I think it's largely due to heat issues since I have a few units in the same enclosure and it's rather warm there. That said, they grow wonderfully large outdoors. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2021 15:08:18 GMT -5
- did well in hydroponics - Excellent germination - pretty to look at - well behaved - Delicious!
Worst so far: The Aerogarden mint -Not minty -Grows into the bowl and makes a mess -Did not make a good mojito - I have tried about 6 different pods on three different grows with the same result. Have bought some seeds from another vendor to try. I don't know, Maybe I can just start them in the Aerogarden and transfer them to soil? They don't do crazy well on my porch due to the lack of light, but those that I've grown out there did taste minty.
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Sher
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Post by Sher on Feb 4, 2021 18:39:41 GMT -5
@zyphax, it's the variety of mint that AG chooses that is so horrible. It is barely recognizeable to me as mint.
Yes, you can start it in the Aerogarden and transplant it pod and all. I do that a lot.
Then I retrieve and sterilize the pod when the plant is done.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2021 14:22:44 GMT -5
My favorite are those I can also plant from seed inside and then plant outside and have them bloom successfully. The No1 in that category would be the Profusion Double Bloom Zinnias from Parkseed. I plant these every year and they go from June through the cool Fall...blooming and blooming away! Along with those are seen the Magellan Zinnias which I also plant outside and love to plant those in the house as well. I have a current project going now. Both require a tall machine.
Also I love the abundance of blooms I got with the Twinny Double Bloom Snapdragons from Parkseed. They do well in a Tall Machine
As for vegetables, I am having a ball this year growing the Mini Munch Cukes indoors. My present fave.
These can be grown in a Harvest , but mine are in a tall machine. Only 1 seed per machine for a Harvest and there must be a trellis to the side for the vines.
But my favorite is the first project I ever grew: the Harvest Tom Kit back in 2008 when I discovered that I could grow a plant and it didn't die on me like all plants did back then AND I got tomatoes as a bonus. I think the fact that the 2 plants grew and were healthy surprised me more than the tomatoes themselves LOL!
I could post more examples of my favorite and most rewarding projects, but I will just add these. All info about these seeds are in the suggested seeds section of the forum.
The most disappointing project was the Lavender Kit which I thought would give off a fragrance after it bloomed. However, After MONTHS of growing it and the kit finally producing blooms, I could only get fragrance when my hand brushed the plant. The fragrance was out of this world, BUT the fact that it didn;t diffuse was a disappointment. I guess I did not know about lavender and I think there were many more purchasers who were under that same wrong assumption of the fragrance filling a room.
They really should put that in the description for us dummies.
FWIW ~That's all She wrote~~
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Sher
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Post by Sher on Feb 5, 2021 14:39:11 GMT -5
@cornne, your gardens are fall down beautiful!  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2021 14:46:43 GMT -5
Tee Hee UR a hot ticket, sher!
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Post by ERR0R1755 on Feb 6, 2021 18:04:55 GMT -5
1) What have been your favorite (best) project to date you have grown and why?
I think my favorite has been the Tom Thumb Pea - it's cute, short, and surprisingly productive for how small it is. I've grown them in the Sprout, in the Harvest, in Kratky containers, and even just in soil - and so far I haven't had any issues with them, just slower growth depending on the method and lighting.
2) What has been your worst (least) favorite to grow and why?
Spacemaster Cucumbers. I've tried a few times to grow them, but they either don't seem to grow properly, or they grow too big and start strangling other plants with their tendrils. I've picked up some other types of cucumber, and I'll try the Spacemaster a few more times outdoors since I have so many seeds, but I'm never growing those indoors again.
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