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MY HYDROPONIC GARDEN


FALL 2000 - SUMMER 2003

 Cole crops in 1 gallon pots in drip system. Black ground cloth keeps sun out of nutrient preventing algae growth.








Cherry tomatoes in drip system.









Tomatoes in drip system using cypress chips as medium. Varieties include Brandywine, Cherokee purple, Better boy , Big boy bush, and Sun gold. The Sun gold are cherry tomatoes and grown because they ripen 2 to 3 weeks ahead of other varieties.




Cantalope and watermelon in drip system. This is my first attempt at growing these. The vines are growing about 6 inches per day. I have not yet solved the problem of how to support the fruit that forms before the vines reach the ground. The watermelon are supposed to reach 25 lbs each.




Late March: Sweet corn in drip system. The corn I have grown in drip systems always looks as if some minor element is missing, but in the end it always produces excellent corn.







Cantalope growth from 5-21 to 6-18.








Chard in NFT.





9-1-02 Using reflective mulch over drip system to keep white flies off the tomato plants.

Fall cucumbers in drip system already blooming.

11/6/02 Tomatoes in homemade Dutch pots.

Pole beans in Bato buckets.

Bush beans in NFT. (vinyl downspouts)

Tomatoes in bato buckets.

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