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Post by scarfguy on Mar 23, 2024 9:06:00 GMT -5
TODAY!...
Cascading petunias to brighten a dreary day!
I always try and reserve a bounty for flowers. There is nothing nicer than live, thriving flowers in your living room in the middle of winter to enrich your life.
If you haven't tried the cascading petunias from Aerogarden, do yourself a favor. They are a little slow to get started but they adapt well to the AG systems and always seem to grow well.
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mike
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Post by mike on Mar 23, 2024 18:34:55 GMT -5
Beautiful.
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Post by lynnee on Mar 23, 2024 23:28:07 GMT -5
I totally agree with scarfguy's recommendation for AG cascading petunias. As if his gorgeous photo above isn't persuasive enough! My avatar is another example of the AG cascading petunias, along with some AG zinnias at the right.
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pfunnyjoy
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Mar 24, 2024 1:29:24 GMT -5
The petunias are beautiful, scarfguy ! I'm having a "bang my head against the wall" Aerogarden day. My ground cherries, which had been improving, suddenly started looking worse the past couple days. I gave them another dose of Epsom salt, but that didn't help. And then today I noticed that the water level had not changed and was still reading full from yesterday. Definitely not normal! When I shook the plants for pollination, the stems seemed somewhat flexible. UH OH! I suspected the worst. When I lifted the plants out of the bowl on 3/18, I'd unplugged the pump so I could take the reservoir into the bathroom and give it a rinse out. And somehow, in all the stress of trimming roots away from the pump and getting the massive plants back into the bowl, I'd forgotten to plug the pump back in. And this went unnoticed for FIVE DAYS! No wonder the plant was deteriorating! I don't know if it'll recover. It looked pretty bad tonight. And then, my two new Tatsoi sprouts showed signs of stress. It looks like I cannot start seedlings in the kitchen near the air purifier. MAYBE, when the plants are mature, I can think about moving them back out there, but meanwhile, I brought them in the office, but they look even worse tonight, so I think I may just pull them, boil the sponges and reseed. It's sort of maddening, because microgreens grow beautifully on the kitchen counter! Maybe it's because there are so many of them they mostly protect each other from any drafts? Or create their own microclimate, because of the bubbling water? I don't know. Broccoli microgreens, day 9. Grown on silicone reusable media. I was half scared there might be mold or fungus lurking where I couldn't see it, because they grew so thickly, even though I used the AG recommended amount of seeds. I think I'll cut back on that next time. However, there was no problem!
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Post by slw on Mar 24, 2024 13:14:23 GMT -5
Joy, I have trouble believing that an air purifier would affect the plants in an Aerogarden. I use a full-size oscillating fan on my gardens and even that much air doesn't hurt any of them. In fact, the pepper plants seem to love the air flow and always produce more when I run the fans... more pollination I suppose.
As for what I did today... not much. With my outside gardens keeping me busy I've got a lot of my AGs shut down. I did manage to start a couple of pepperoncini plants and a couple of sweet heats. I like growing peppers indoors better than outside. And speaking of outside... I have some tiny yellow squashes in my City Pickers grow boxes!!
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Post by slw on Mar 24, 2024 13:22:30 GMT -5
Forgot to add that when I was cutting some green onion tops for my scrambled eggs this morning, I noticed a bud on top of one onion! I'm going to leave it there and see what happens.
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pfunnyjoy
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Mar 24, 2024 15:01:50 GMT -5
Joy, I have trouble believing that an air purifier would affect the plants in an Aerogarden. I use a full-size oscillating fan on my gardens and even that much air doesn't hurt any of them. In fact, the pepper plants seem to love the air flow and always produce more when I run the fans... more pollination I suppose.
I know, it's driving me crazy. It is, however, the one thing that has changed since I last grew successfully on this counter back in 2008/2009. I have an oscillating fan (tabletop) in both my basement and office garden rooms, and nothing has minded those. But every time I try to start seedlings on the kitchen counter, I run into a problem. Except for the microgreens. I'm going to restart the Tatsoi, the seedlings look bad today.
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Post by lynnee on Mar 25, 2024 12:36:03 GMT -5
Joy, I have trouble believing that an air purifier would affect the plants in an Aerogarden. I use a full-size oscillating fan on my gardens and even that much air doesn't hurt any of them. In fact, the pepper plants seem to love the air flow and always produce more when I run the fans... more pollination I suppose.
My AG plants can't abide a room fan, furnace vent draft, or window draft. When the fan is turned on, even to its lowest setting, the tomato leaves in two gardens placed in a corner across the room dry up beyond recovery to crumbly crispness in a day or so. The room in question has a south-facing window that gets sun all afternoon, which keeps the room temp high. But it is the fan that is fatal to the plants.
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Post by lynnee on Mar 25, 2024 12:54:02 GMT -5
The City Pickers discussion has developed into an informative thread with great photos, so the posts have been moved to the Outdoor & Container gardening section. aerogardenaddicts.com/post/59955/thread
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Post by lynnee on Mar 31, 2024 23:36:17 GMT -5
Today I did some emergency trellising on the Vivacious tomato in a Farm 12XL. I may take it out and start over, because it has a really weak stem. I'm about to end my Easy Peasy Peas, and start over. They have produced a crop, but no more blooms. I'll have to go read up on how peas grow--maybe they have one blooming phase, and that's it for them?
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pfunnyjoy
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Apr 1, 2024 0:05:21 GMT -5
Joy, I have trouble believing that an air purifier would affect the plants in an Aerogarden. I use a full-size oscillating fan on my gardens and even that much air doesn't hurt any of them. In fact, the pepper plants seem to love the air flow and always produce more when I run the fans... more pollination I suppose.
My AG plants can't abide a room fan, furnace vent draft, or window draft. When the fan is turned on, even to its lowest setting, the tomato leaves in two gardens placed in a corner across the room dry up beyond recovery to crumbly crispness in a day or so. The room in question has a south-facing window that gets sun all afternoon, which keeps the room temp high. But it is the fan that is fatal to the plants. I had to use a fan with the ground cherries, otherwise I had awful leaf edema. I was somewhat concerned because of the young chard plants (quite near the fan), but they thickened up their stems, and never needed any support! I picked and ate a couple chard leaves tonight when I was down there, so the two older plants wouldn't shade the two younger. Delicious! I'm looking forward to more chard! And the plants in my office seem to like the fan as well, so I have no idea why I can't get seedlings going on the kitchen counter. I might try basil there next...
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Post by lynnee on Apr 1, 2024 8:58:07 GMT -5
It's weird, isn't it, how AGs just don't work well in some locations? You will figure out how to grow stuff in your kitchen eventually, I'm sure.
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Post by lynnee on Apr 3, 2024 18:50:59 GMT -5
Today I terminated the pea vines, and sent the Farm 12XL bowl, deck, and pump through the dishwasher for disinfecting. I always feel very virtuous when I take a farm deck apart!
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Post by Clovis Sangrail on Apr 3, 2024 21:10:36 GMT -5
I had to go out of town for three weeks, so I terminated some gardens and left the remaining in the charge of my progeny. All they had to do was drop by every couple of days, check the water levels, and feed the beasts if the light was on. Except for the lettuce. I had two Harvests that were ready for harvesting, one with Merlot and one with AG Mystery Greens. Herr's what they looked like when I left -- I had alredy started harvesting from them. I had two other Harvests with some juvenile Parris Island and AG Miscellaneous Heirloom Greens, and I figured that by the time I got back, these two would be ready to harvest. So I told the lads they could just harvest a whole pod whenever they came over and take it home. Told them to just cut it off at the base. Which they did. And you know what? The damn stuff grew back. They cut them off at the stump, all of them, one every couple of days, and the plants grew back. And here they are today. That's Merlot on the left and AG Mystery Greens on the right. That Merlot is some awesome stuff. Meanwhile, the Parris Island and AG Miscellaneous Heirloom Greens are up to the lamps. Parris Island three weeks ago -- Parris Island and AG Miscellaneous Heirloom Greens now. So I need to whip up a batch of Chez Clovis House Dressing and get to lettuce munching. In other Chez Clovis news -- meet new resident Yogi, combination guard dog, ESA, Service Dog in Training, and all-around good egg. He was a foundling. Yogi loves a car ride, and I had to engage the child-guard lock because during his two-day car ride to Chez Clovis, he learned how to roll the windows down.
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Post by scarfguy on Apr 3, 2024 21:42:39 GMT -5
Such a handsome young fellow that Yogi is!
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Post by lynnee on Apr 3, 2024 23:52:54 GMT -5
A dog that figured out how to roll the car windows down! You have an amazing canine, Clovis Sangrail! Love your lettuce story and photos, too.
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Post by tompepper7 on Apr 4, 2024 0:00:10 GMT -5
....Yogi loves a car ride, and I had to engage the child-guard lock because during his two-day car ride to Chez Clovis, he learned how to roll the windows down. ...wait until Yogi learns to drive and place orders on the internet...
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Post by Clovis Sangrail on Apr 4, 2024 8:13:53 GMT -5
A dog that figured out how to roll the car windows down! You have an amazing canine, Clovis Sangrail ! Love your lettuce story and photos, too. That's the very same Merlot from Rare Seeds you put me on to. I had no idea it would regrow like that. It is good stuff. ....Yogi loves a car ride, and I had to engage the child-guard lock because during his two-day car ride to Chez Clovis, he learned how to roll the windows down. ...wait until Yogi learns to drive and place orders on the internet... He's working on driving, but lack of thumbs is slowing him down on the internet. I have caught him trying to work door knobs. He's a foundling, so I had the vet do a DNA test on him. He's half Siberian Husky, which is kind of like having a big cat. He was half starved when he showed up -- Look at that face. He is working those doggie eyebrows.
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Post by scarfguy on Apr 4, 2024 8:46:11 GMT -5
TODAY:
I present to you my Aconcaugua pepper! This is a large plant from Argentina.
It grows to 3-4 feet and has sweet peppers that approach 12 inches in length.
Mine is currently at 42 inches. I have about 4 more inches before it hits the lights.
The peppers are coming along nicely but I don't think they will get anywhere near 12 inches... Maybe 6-8 if I'm lucky.
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Post by Clovis Sangrail on Apr 4, 2024 8:52:38 GMT -5
Now that's a pepper plant.
Those pictures make me crave some chiles rellenos.
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