Picking dinner out of the back yard rocks!
Posted: June 16, 2009 Filed under: Gardening 1 CommentEverything I ate tonight I grew, except for the chicken. It’s organic, free range, now it’s in the oven. I am using organic butter, thyme and scallions and sweet potatoes I grew, Cherry tomatoes I picked this afternoon. When I went to the backyard just now I noticed a bunch of blueberries were ripe. I have been eating a few a week, but all of the sudden I had to come back in and get a bowl..there were so many! I love this! I have only been seriously gardening since last July. that’s when the square foot garden went in. But then I became fascinated with hydroponics and it took off from there… but today was the first time that everything I grew all the veggies and fruit for dinner!!!
Here’s an update; This is the sunroom at the end of the living room. Almost everything is in sub-irrigated containers I built.
The tomatoes have vined up to the ceiling! Next time I know to use patio type tomatoes. In the red bucket is purple bell peppers, Clockwise from there; purple tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, garlic, lettuce, chives, beets.
Outside something attacked my broccoli, I sprayed with Neem oil.
Flowers on the upside down tomatoes, hanging outside my kitchen window. I can open the window and pick tomatoes!

Thanks for sharing this with live local! You could recreate your hydroponic experiment on the live local site – no one has talked about this style of growing yet and I think the community would love to hear about how you did it.
Cheers from live local HQ, Sydney
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