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Location: North of Chicago, IL Gender: Male Total Likes: 279 likes
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| | | | Re: Who gardens? < Reply # 3 on 10/1/2013 4:01 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Always had gardens when I was younger. Last time I lived out in Illinois I had some boxes going in the windows. Usually stuff for tea and basic cooking. Mints, basil, thyme, rosemary, chives, bell peppers, chillies. Dang, now Rosemary, that stuff will GROW. At my old house I planted some little rosemary plants from Walmart one year. 6 years later they were these HUGE bushes that I'd have to wrangle back with pruning loppers. I had planted some Egyptian walking garlic and some radishes nearby, under the Rosemary bushes one year. Apparently missed pulling up one of the radishes till a couple years later. It was the size of a baseball. Very woody tasting, but still quite flavorful. Also used to grow some feverfew cuz it's a nice ground cover, looks kinda pretty mixed with nuremburgia. Used to do quite a few different kinds of tomatoes too.
Looks like we'll be moving into a basement apartment soon. NotLost was telling me over PM about some windowledge greenhouse boxes that have worked well for him in the past, I might look into something like that.
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| | | | | Re: Who gardens? < Reply # 7 on 10/4/2013 1:31 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | We keep some herbs in the garden. Also tomatoes, peas, cucumber, and squash. Lots of squash. The chickens died this year. The hydroponics rig is doing well. If you get a 4-level shelf, some fluorescent shop lights, and setup a floating-raft Deep-Water-Culture rig with liquid nutrient stuff and an air rock, you can get a pretty decent indoor garden for about $200. It works very well for basil and other leafy herbs, lettuce and microgreens, and my new cucumber is growing monstrously. The tomato is doing well, too. I've most enjoyed the tomatoes and basil. The very-pretty shelf in the dining room that grows food is also nice. I haven't rigged it up with reflecto-mylar walls and other things that would improve productivity, because they don't look nice.
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