What did you do in the garden today?

[gtaus]

I grow mine [sprouts] in quart canning jars. I bought the strainer tops, but you can just cover them with something like cheesecloth instead. Or, drill a bunch of small drainage holes in a canning lid.

I have done that method, too. Works fine. But I got a stackable round bin tray system for sprouting. Advantage is that each tray can have a different kind of sprout growing. You just fill the top bin and it waters all the trays below using a gravity drip system. Then you dump out the bottom collection bin before you water it the next time.

I won't say it works better than quart jars with screen top lids, but since the trays were stackable it took up less space on the countertop. And did I mention that the kitchen is Dear Wife's domain, so any of my projects are by consent only....?

I will be going into town later today, so I might stop at the Food Co-op where they sell sprouting seeds. I have got lots of items on my to-do list for my town run. Don't know if I have time to get everything done. But sprouting seeds are on the list now.

 

[Ascholten]

Sally, I sell mostly green coffee beans that people roast themselves. I do sell roasted coffee however it's more word of mouth. The greens keep me plenty busy, to be honest i would not have the time to do roasted on a full time basis. I wish I could but as it is i typically ship 400 Lbs a week or so of greens, .. so roasting and mass selling roasted over that, id never have time to pet the paco or choke the chickens (at his request)

At one time I was thinking of hiring some help but not even sure how to even go about that anymore with today's sorry generation. Too many times ive seen some lousy people ruin a good business by being.. well... typical entitled POS's. A person can take years to build up a business and their reputation, and that can be wiped out in a few weeks by crappy employees. These worthless kids nowadays, none of them want to work, they want you to pay them 20 dollars an hour to play on their phones all day and bitch because they have poor wi fi reception. I pay commission, the more you work, the more I pay. NONE want that, because, the magic word, or I should say forbidden word in Gen Z's vocab,.. Work. Reeee Reeeee Reee!!!!! I did the math, I could raise my prices maybe 10 cents/ lb which is minimal to hire someone to bag coffee, which not even cracking a whip, just, working a normal pace, being safe, taking a swig of coffee, water, smoking a cig or 2 during the hour and you could still make 20 -30 bucks an hour ! Bagging Coffee FFS !! an epileptic retarded monkey can do this job, it's NOT HARD. Very little brains needed, even a stoner should be able to do this right??? yet had a bunch turn it down because it was 'too much like work'. 'so called -Normal' people think it's demeaning work. Im not bagging coffee, that's pissant work. For 30 bucks an hour ill scrub your crappers for you buddy! The 3 who did 'try' the job, couldn't even do that, ship 100 lbs of coffee, i'll give you 3 days, well uhh, well this came up, and then I had to do this and I wasn't sure you bla bla bla. Rather than deal with that, I just keep to my green coffee and do it all myself.

Ill Dm you my site if you want to look at it, you can post me a message there and i can basically sell you roasted, of any green that is there. I don't want to post the site here because it IS a business and that'd probably not go over well here doing that.

Aaron

 

[ChicksnMore]

I also have 12 one gallon grow bags in a 3ft x 4ft cement tub above my 600 gallon tilapia tank. I use it like a nutrient flow system with a thin film of constant water flow on the bottom of the bags. The potting mix in my grow bags has fertilizer and holds water, so I only run the pond water through it an hour a day. I am growing some red lettuce and Heirloom French lettuce (Merveille de Quatre Saisons) in two separate tanks. The return drain in my cement tubs is almost flush to the bottom, so the grow bags are not always sitting in water and the water is absorb from the bottom up, so most of the fertilizer stays in the bag.

right now i got about half a dozen small lettuce patches floating around in my tilapia pond until I get it all set up properly with a PROPER grow out area. with that said i really should start probably harvesting them daily / semi daily whatever i am supposed to bedoing with it.

These are short little poofty lettussussesssss that grow in the little 2x2 pots that float in an aqua garden, with that I wonder if i can get romaine to grow in there w/o tipping over. Id rather grow stuff that has some actual nutritional value

what do you call plural lettuce? lettusus? letti? what about small ones? letisha's or just little lettuce's say that 3 times fast! without any lettle lilly weeds getting in there !!!

Aaron

I'm interested in aquaponics. I'd love to see pics of what you guys have going.

I have a crazy to do list right now after 3 years of back to back health issues... female problems, followed by a broken foot, then a brown recluse bite. But I'm feeling like myself again so there's hope my to do list will finally get caught up...lol. Time to start adding "I want" items to my list again

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Gardeners dry but cold 34 outside, if we can keep that a couple weeks.
May see the fleas get in get check.

 

[Sally PB]

I just visited my green house. I need to get some steel wool, spray foam, and mouse traps. I have one (!) small spinach plant left.

 

[CNJ]

I'm interested in aquaponics. I'd love to see pics of what you guys have going.

I use to have lava and blue rock in my aquaponic growing beds, but every time I grow something with a lot of roots like long squash etc., the bed gets filled with muck, even if the water going into the beds are filtered clear.

Its a pain to clean, so now I use grow bags in my beds and just water them with the pond water return once a day. The grow bags wick water up and moisten the potting mix from the bottom up.

After I harvest, I pour all the potting mix in a separate tub with holes on the bottom. Earth worms find their way into the tub and multiply in my potting mix. I use small size 50/50 lava rock and peat moss, so the mix is loose and doesn't compact.

 

[igorsMistress]

Has anyone heard from @Sueby lately? Thinking about you!

 

[WthrLady]

Couple days ago. She was out playing in the snow and ice with her walker.

 

[Sally PB]

I just visited my green house. I need to get some steel wool, spray foam, and mouse traps. I have one (!) small spinach plant left.

DH came up with the great idea of using hardware cloth tents over the stands I have the pots on.

Gee, I love that man!

I think I'll do all three: try to fill up the runs, put out traps, and protect the pots with hardware cloth.

 

[Sueby]

Has anyone heard from @Sueby lately? Thinking about you!

I’m here! Doing well. Did a 17 minute quarter mile on the treadmill today. Then slept for 3 hours.