One day we found that our basement apartment had grown a little stuffy. After reading that Gerbera daisies are excellent at cleaning the air, we promptly purchased a yellow daisy for the corner of the room... and then a pink daisy... and then a majesty palm... and then some ivy... and so on until we had two rooms full of plants including fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers growing in soil, soilless mixes, hydroponics, and aquaponics.

This is the story of our garden and how it grew in a basement apartment from a single yellow daisy.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Blueberries, zucchini, and squash

Harvested daisies with AquaFarm.
Blueberry plants freshly placed in soilless sphagnum peat and pine mix for acidity with added holly tone for nutrients. Left: pink lemonade. Right: jersey. Both are fed recycled water via drip system.

Now leafless mulberry after it got frost bitten during transit. If the buds put out new leaves it will get transplanted into a soilless mix as well.

Strawberries sharing a bucket with spare zucchini and squash due to a 100% germination rate.

Whole hydro setup.

Tomatoes and newly potted spaghetti squash (left) and zucchini (right).

Strawberry and blueberry totes.


Close up of pink lemonade blueberry sprouting its new leaves.

Close up of the first blooms on the hydroponic yellow pear tomatoes.





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