turning over some garden beds today. dug up some holdover ginger and galangal:
also, @mindysan33 , you have one of those countertop hydro garden thingies, iirc. how did you like it and what can you grow in it? thinking to get one for growing cilantro/coriander indoors. i cannot get it to grow outdoors in the summer heat, and i use sooo much of the stuff!
would a pepper plant or two grow in that?
I donāt have hers, but seeing how plants that grow tall do in hydroponics, I wouldnāt recommend trying to finish a pepper in there 
I think coriander would do really well.
the one i ma looking at says it will accomodate plants up to 50cm tall, and the light can be angled to 180degrees to light up the whole plant.
just looking for experience before i click that ābuyā button.
In my experience, growing plants in soil under artificial light, and growing plants in hydro under artificial light, the hydro ones grew larger, much more quickly, and although they became mature (ready to flower an bear fruit) a bit earlier, they were still really big. The pepper might not go for height, but it probably will become quite broad. Maybe try some coriander first, just so you can get an idea about how much faster things grow, then extrapolate.
One thing I can recommend if you do want to grow peppers in hydro would be to take clones from mature plants, but that gets to be quite a lot logistically
New addition to the citrus collection: dwarf yuzu lemon
Mail order from a Georgia nursery: 9 month old graft onto trifoliate orange root stock, so I will have to be vigilant about removing suckers that sprout below the graft point. Yuzu can handle winter temps approaching 0F/-18C, but the recommendation is to grow it in a container for a couple years until it has some size on it.
Bring on more expensive citrus fruit!
must be some expensive citrus!
youāve got it locked to that standpipe/flagpole with wire rope!
lol, no, just a funny camera angle. The wire is part of the tie-down for the greenhouse frame. When I took the cover off the greenhouse a few weeks ago, I decided not to disassemble the frame.
The joke about growing expensive citrus is from how much Iāve spent on winter protection in particular. I refuse to do the math to determine how much each lemon, key lime, and calamansi actually cost.
Ah! Thanks! Could have been that tooā¦ But they are good now!
I do have one, itās a 9 plants versionā¦ right now, Iāve got a too large tomato plant and some banana peppers, which are lovely and full of flowersā¦ Iāve have success with herbs, too, but for some reason, I canāt mix herbs with things like peppers in it, or one or the other donāt do well. Iād recommend it for herbs more than anything else though, me thinks. I had lots of success of cilantro.
Yeah, but depending on the size of the set up, you might need to go for a dwarf version? They do make specific seeds for aerogarden which are supposed to be guaranteed to work.
Here is kits that they sell from the websiteā¦
cool!
thank you for the reply. good info and link.
thinking real hard about getting one of these.
But yuzu!!
I really want to try fresh yuzu. Canāt find it 
Peas are starting to poke up. I always start them indoors, then transplant. Mice love to eat pea seeds while theyāre first sprouting.
Peppers are popping up too. Various varieties
I like mineā¦ I imagine the big ones do well. There are lots of people on youtube who post videos about theirs, and people try all sorts of stuff in them.
Trying a raised bed garden this year.
Here we goā¦
From the top down, tomatoes (2), peppers (japaleno, poblano, bell), strawberries, collards, cilantro, dill, basil (2), mint! Trying to the square foot gardening method.
As always, lovely!
Oh, I saw a few of those weird blocks just sitting in someoneās yard the other day, and wondered what they could be for. Now I know!
Do they have a name? Are they used for other things as well?
Looks great!
If possible, try to isolate the mint. It sends out shoots underground and will easily take over your beds. Its a good one to keep in a pot.
You mean the blocks on the cornersā¦ They have them at the home depotā¦ theyāll have them at whatever the local home store is near you, Iām sureā¦
They worked great for building a raised bed - we have two stacked on top of each otherā¦
Iāll keep an eye on it! See what I can do. Iāll repot it if it gets to be a problem.
Neat! Thank you for the link 
I canāt remember having seem them before. Looks like they may have been purposely designed to use for garden beds. Such a neat idea.
I could see them being used for bricks-and-boards bookshelves too, maybe. (For very heavy books, I guess. I suppose most people wouldnāt use boards that thick usually.)
Yay!
I second @Axolotl on the mint. Better in a pot, even if the pot is sitting right next to the garden bed. Mints are extremely vigorous!
From experience, and if you havenāt already, you may want to start a garden log. Knowing which varietals you planted last year, who they were next to, and then how they did will be handy later. Let you start finding the varieties that work best in your microclimate.
I didnāt write down my strawberry varieties a few years ago and now I regret it. They pulled through the Texas midsummer hell admirably
They are! You can build one the old fashioned way, of course, but this went together very quick for us.
Yeah, book shelves are a great idea!
Good idea! For this year, I just picked up whatever the home depot had, which was Bonnie and Burpee seedlings. But, yeah, Iāll write them down.
Thanks for the tips everyone! You guys rule!
