Just pick a niche! Gosh
I just keep changing focus. Today I WILL choose a path and plow full steam ahead.
I think I am going to focus on gardening and more tightly focus on hydroponics. I have a tiny garden, three raised beds. My lettuce and spinach came in last month and is going out already, the can't stand the heat. The tomatoes and cucumbers aren't even close. How the heck am I supposed to have a homegrown salad? So, I'm gonna start some lettuce indoors under a light in a hydroponic set up.
I have a really nice system, I did a lot of research and bought last year, so I have a little experience. I did one grow.
I want to develop my own little system, they are not that complicated...
What do you think?
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I think that would be a good niche. For the first time in 24 years my Iris's did not bloom! I have hundreds of iris bulbs that make my yard the wonder of the neighborhood. Not this year!
I really don't know what happened to them. Too much rain, too hot, who knows. I miss them not blooming, I would cut the flowers and fill my house with vases of iris as long as they bloomed. Of course I left enough for the neighbors to enjoy in the yard..
Good luck with your hydroponic garden! I have tried straw bale gardening a couple years ago and did well with that.
Camber
Follow your passion. If you are passionate about something it really does not feel like work
Nice:) We have all outside, but it's often a very disappointing result. All kind of bugs are eating it before we can
Loes, have you tried planting things that bring in birds and things that eat bugs? Or how about ladybugs? They eat aphids and spider mites and other bad insects and they love dill, lavender, echinacea, and pincushion flowers just to name a few. Add some of those plants around or near the garden.
Yes, we even lure the blackbird to eat the snails, but every evening I, biologically remove 20-50 by hand. We have a very active snail population. And the sneaky bastards work only at night, during the day they are invisible!
Bless your heart! I've heard that a little bit of beer in a shallow pan will lure snails and kill them. Who knows??? At least we don't have all that to deal with.
That is so frustrating, I had trouble with those fat green caterpillars , Mom calls them cutter worms. The got after my tomatoes last year.
Crazy! That sounds awful. We got over run with frogs a few years ago, but I they didn't bother anything. They would just cover the driveway at dark and I would feel so sad because cars would squish 'em!
I will be very interested to know how it turns out. We have had the same issues this year; by the time we started getting cukes and tomatoes, the lettuce was bolting! We had a lot of rain and a lot of our radishes rotted. I was able to keep root rot from becoming rampant every where else though. It can be very disappointing when you work so hard to have a nice garden and nature tries to destroy it! Oh, and don't even get me started talking about the rabbits and the deer getting into it!!!!
It has been crazy here too. We had what you call a false Spring. It got warm really early and then cold again. Everything bloomed and died and is now coming back, but not very strong. Especially the Azalea and Japanese Maple.
I'm in North Mississippi
We had a bit of a false start too. My Iris were budding out when we got a sudden temp drop along with snow, which we never get! Of course, the buds froze. Oh well, at least the plants are still alive, right? The weather has just been really strange this year all over.
I'm in South Carolina by the way!
Yes, that would work. We live in the desert and our gardens are pitiful and must be in the shaded areas of our yard most of the day due to the heat. If we had more space in our house, we would look at hydroponics.
Yes, I am getting excited about hydroponics. I read an article last year about a girl who did her grow vertically, in layers, so it takes up less space. I'll try to find it for you.
BTW, I'm following you now. Tks
I think you could also do a farm garden niche with hydroponics as one piece of it... considering you are the tinyfarmlady! :)
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