Gathering items for first attempt and outdoor Hydro grow. Have grown a lot of Veggies in containers over the years with mixed results. Tomatoes,beans and peppers have always been successful, but not so much with squash, cucumber or a few others. Hopefully I will have better luck with those with Hydro.
Ed
A good gardener is said to have a green thumb. Would a Hydroponic gardener have a blue thumb?
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Try the squash, cucumbers and tomatoes in dutch buckets. They have extensive root systems and the vines need support. We had to grow tomatoes and cucumbers in shade houses not for the shade but for the bug netting otherwise the birds and worms spoil a lot of the fruit. Squash was less of a problem we just cover the fruit with paper, paint, or tuille sacks when they are small.
Finally nice weather....
Tomato plants started indoors in late March are doing great. Recently added air pump and they love it. Zucchini is doing great except I didn't take it out of the peat pod before putting it outside It's wobbly so I had to prop it up and tie it off. STUPID Peppers aren't doing as well....I didn't let the roots get long enough to reach the water at the bottom of the Dutch buckets. I added paint strainer bags with perlite in hopes that it gives more water to the roots. Except for 1 which I just noticed has flowers...
Ed
Tomato plants started indoors in late March are doing great. Recently added air pump and they love it. Zucchini is doing great except I didn't take it out of the peat pod before putting it outside It's wobbly so I had to prop it up and tie it off. STUPID Peppers aren't doing as well....I didn't let the roots get long enough to reach the water at the bottom of the Dutch buckets. I added paint strainer bags with perlite in hopes that it gives more water to the roots. Except for 1 which I just noticed has flowers...
Ed