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a few pic's of my fruit and veg plants
rusty spade
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in Fruit & veg
First lets take a look in my hydroponic greenhouse.
for starters here's my hydroponic big beef tomato.
here are some bell peppers,they have been set back a couple of weeks because of the cold snap a few weeks ago.
on the left is a melon pear. on the right is a aubergine
on the left is a habanero chilly on the right is a desease resistance cucumber.
my onions in the raised bed.
some parsnips and carrots in my raised bed.
my broccoli plants in the raised bed.
my indoor big beef tomatoes with a small cache crop of iceberg lettuce.
my indoor peppers.
my onions for the show.
my bell peppers outside next to my greenhouse.
my fig trees.
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I also have a gardening channel on youtube. copy and paste this link for my latest instalment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnxn512EPFM
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thanks.
I totally agree with you. but for size and volume hydroponics cannot be beaten.
My brother who had a degree in horticulture told me about hydroponics in the early seventies. The highly nutritious liquid that the plants are grown in is then poured away; makes it's way into lakes and rivers, giving them a very high level of nutrients. This encourages the plants in the water to grow far larger than they normally would. This de-oxygenates the water and you then have dead lakes and rivers.
I hope I have not explained this badly, I am not a scientist, I simply remember what I was told by someone who was.
Well I can asure you that my small greenhouse set up dose not affect the environment.
Well done Rusty - all looks very organised and hopeful for lots of good crops.
Thanks very much busy bee2, it's always good to get some good feedback.
Well I make the hydroponic chemicals so it probably woks out cheaper than buying compost. I probably spend less running all of my hydro kits for a season than it would cost to buy a 35l bag of cheap qd compost. And some plants it just makes sence to grow in hydroponics. I mean take the melon pear that i'm growing, I've grown them in soil before and your lucky if you even get 1. But growing it in hydroponics taylored to that plant i can normally get between 5 and 10 to 1 plant. so it just seems to make more sence. It's the same with the tomatoes.
Well I've been growing in hydroponics for nearly 15 years now.