Good lookin' plants!!! Intresting setup. Keep the updates coming. Treefarmer
Cauli is gone crazy with growth. No sign of a head yet. Broccoli either
Nick, the set up looks cool and you got some massive growth. Only problem I see from my perspective is everything is too close together, preventing full growth potential. I may be wrong, just the way it looks in the pics
Nick, the set up looks cool and you got some massive growth. Only problem I see from my perspective is everything is too close together, preventing full growth potential. I may be wrong, just the way it looks in the pics
I agree, I will be modifying it before long. Just going to extend it out a bit and spread them a bit further. I was concerned about that from the beginning but the wooden stand was made from scrap laying around in the back yard, and I used what I had. I have a week off from work before I start my new job, so I will be fiddling with it this week and over the weekend. I think I'm going to get some cinder blocks and run 2x8s instead of building another stand.
I might even build another one and run it in parallel to this one, use it for kale (we eat a TON of kale) and some lettuce, maybe a couple more pepper plants. I think the pump will keep up.
I'm also going to add a float switch to the reservoir and have it hooked up to the raised bed/ground plant irrigation set up I have (it runs for 1.5 hours every 8 hours). Come summer time I bet the plants will be sucking up some water and I don't want to have to worry about it running dry if I get lazy or go out of town for a couple days.
Also, in the future, I think I will only plant 1 tomato plant per bucket. Many of the folks I read about were planting 2, so I followed suit...but like you said, I think they are already choking each other out a bit.
