Vertical garden diary

[Dave Rennie]

Today we sprinkled them onto some moist top soil…



Gave them a good soaking…



Placed them in the conservatory…



And placed a roof over their heads where they’ll remain for the next 5 days….



In 5 days time, we’ll remove the roof and give them another 7-14 days in the conservatory, and then (if all goes to plan) gobble them up in a nice salad….

[Dave Rennie]

While we’re on the subject of gobbling stuff up…
Popie made one of her delectable, healthy, high fat cheese cakes as a fathers day treat, and we topped it off with 7 of our own grown strawberries.

[Nannysally99]

Loving this thread

[Snoop Puss]

Scrumptious-looking cheesecake!

[Dave Rennie]

Thanks Sally & Snoop Puss.
The cake tastes better than it looks

[Potstubsdustbins]

Dave as I am a lover of cheese cake could you let me have your...................address please................ I'll bring my own cream

[Dave Rennie]

Dave as I am a lover of cheese cake could you let me have your...................address please................ I'll bring my own cream

Sure, come on down.
Free cake for everyone over the age of 99 and accompanied with both parents

[Dave Rennie]

Microgreens after 24hrs on soil in darkness.

[Dave Rennie]

Quick morning update.
We seem to get overnight spurts of growth.





Alpine strawberries are starting to form.



And the tomatoes have finally decided to join the party.

[Dave Rennie]

Microgreens 48hrs under darkness.



I was concerned with the white mold around the seedlings, but some research suggested it was a normal part of the germination process.

[Dave Rennie]

Microgreens 72hrs of darkness.

[Dave Rennie]

Microgreens after 96hrs of darkness.
I'll keep the kids off now and let them bathe in the sun for another week or so(in the conservatory).

So far so good.
The pea's (the full flat) don't look so great, but they may spurt now the roof is off. We'll see.

[Dave Rennie]

Quick update on the microgreens.
I think we're on about day 6 now, and the radishes are steaming ahead!

[Dave Rennie]

As for the vertical growing.
Things are going so so. We're almost 2 weeks in now.
Some varieties are doing ok, some quite poor, and a few that haven't turned up to the party.

Maybe I'm watering too much.

[Dave Rennie]

The toms have shown slight growth.



But the alpine strawberries in the green vertical grower have been slow.