Home and Garden Friday - Planting and Growing the Fall Garden
After almost 3 months, I decided it was time to wrap up harvesting from 'Hydro 1'. Overall, I harvested a little over 1 pound of lettuce. While 1 pound of lettuce does not sound like much, it is a lot of lettuce, especially when I am pretty much the only one who eats a salad in the house. Hydro 2 has been planted and is starting to grow. I did have to replant a couple of the pods - probably old seeds and nothing sprouted. I did discover while it is nice to have labels I can clean and write on, when you mist the plants, the writing runs. Oh, well. My tray of ginger I was attempting to sprout...well, I think I didn't let the pieces callus over well enough and I have lost quite a bit of it. However, I do have sprouts shooting up from a couple of pieces. So I will let them grown on and be ready with a few pieces the first part of 2027 to pot up and get ready to go outside when it warms up. Outside is progressing. The cooler, autumn weather is helping. Last week I finished ...
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