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Around the Urban Homestead

07 Feb 2010 by viggie

I thought I’d do an update in the indoor gardening experiment. Things are going well and I’m excited about plans to expand the growing area for next year. My brother even volunteered to help me put shelves in the closet and hang the shop lights in there. Hopefully we can find a weekend to get together to work on that this month. It’ll come in handy for seed starting too.

The tomatoes are starting to get pretty big and need to be watered every couple days now. They are a cascading variety so they are growing out in every which direction too. Last night when I went to check on them I found the first flowers open

And in other indoor gardening news, the white cukes are starting to fill in. I haven’t been great about pollinating, so you can see some sad shriveled ones that didn’t get enough attention. RIP lil guys.

And finally I did my 3rd Aerogarden pruning. With the elliptical inside for the winter this corner is a bit over used, but certainly productive. My herb harvest more than doubled to 1.75 ounces. That brings my yearly harvest total to .19 pounds. I’ve added a harvest challenge section to my sidebar and will be keeping the total up to date. The numbers will move a lot faster as the year progresses and I have more than lightweight herbs to gather!

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First Aerogarden Harvest

30 Jan 2010 by viggie

While I have been pruning all along, it wasn’t until this week that I did my first herb harvest from the Aerogardens. The plants still look cute and tiny in there. I haven’t even had to move the lights up for the first time yet. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t earning their keep.

Here’s what I cut from my plants. They are pictured here about to be destemmed and laid out for dehydrating. Clockwise starting with the largest curled leaves. Those are Napolitano Basil, the purple one is Red Rubin Basil, top is Sage, next is parsley Parsley, center is Thai Basil, and finally at the bottom is the most delicious smelling, Lemon Basil. My first harvest of the year and a whole 5/8 of an ounce

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Pruning Herbs

16 Jan 2010 by viggie

The plants are growing away in the Aerogarden. I start pruning my indoor herbs as soon as there is a second set of true leaves big enough to pinch off. The plant will grow two branches from this point. I continue doing this after ever leaf set to force the plant to be bushier and more compact. My example is lemon basil and you can see it’s already branching out.

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new aerogarden “season”

11 Dec 2009 by viggie

When I lived in an apartment with no good facing window, I picked up two Aerogardens. I’ve had tremendous success with them and plan to continue to use them to grow herbs during winter months. I’m also going to try growing without using their products once this batch is done.

Aerogarden has been having some Christmas specials so I got a Herb Chef Pack which has enough pods to fill both gardens and saves a bit of money from buying 2 regular packs. They gave me a free set of lights with it too. The lights look fine for now so I put those aside for later.

Picture is from one of the previous “crops”.