Our patio furniture is now inside for the winter. Dwight is the gardener with the vision, I designed and built the lighting and irrigation.
Category: Apartment Gardening
Pea Shoots
Best pea shoots yet.
Tomato Espalier
Our tomato espalier experiment is going well. However, we’ll still be walking over to the local farmers market on Saturday.
Pea-Shoot Skyline
Our pea shoots created their own skyline.
More Plants
“Just going to look,” he said as we drove towards Bachman’s Garden Center.
Science Project
Cycled under glorious tree blossoms, stayed in the moment, didn’t take a photo. Instead, here’s my latest science project: logging the weight of a tray of microgreens. A load cell is connected to the cloud, an app graphs results, logging the weight of a tray.
Irrigating Native Grasses
Installed drippers to irrigate native prairie grasses.
Automated Houseplant Misting
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Automated Houseplant Misting System
Some of our houseplants benefit from a daily misting. Misting gives a Boston Fern higher humidity, while making life difficult for spider mites that thrive on our palms when the air is dry. I’ve had fun in the past few weeks developing an automated misting system that can run on a schedule, or can be…… Continue reading Automated Houseplant Misting System
A Good Day For Plumbing
Spent the morning streamlining our houseplant irrigation system. (This is the “after” picture.) Rain and lightning made it a good day for plumbing.