Nothing beats being able to eat something picked at the peak of ripeness and not two weeks early so it can be shipped to a store. I never liked tomatoes until I had an organic tomato. Real flavor and meaty!

[GotTheBlues]

good idea with the salsa garden, i think im going to start my own.

[Intrinsic_]

Pics of some of my peppers from last summer. Sorry no more pics but there were beans, cucs, sqaush and of coarse lots of toms.
Much the same this year :smile:

Ya know I always tell people if your growin pot grow some ornamentals or vegies. It improves your growing skill and explains the gardening paraphernalia lying around. A lot more confidant when walking into a garden center too.

I hear ya kmarpa, hard to go back to store toms after fresh ones from the garden.


Cherry peppers

Nardello Sweet Pepper

Jalapenos, turning red

Anyone have photos of a vegetable garden with cannabis planted within/alonside it? We're going to ratchet up the veggie garden a few notches this year and I'm hoping to hide 2-3 plants within.


.canine.

[dan kay]

This is just the kind of thread i've been looking for. I'm looking to do a small DIY outdoor hydro system. probably a waterfarm or 2. Probably going to do https://www.hydroponics.net/learn/aquafarm.asp for building the waterfarm. I have a few questions though.

That page talks about perlite or expanded clay for the medium. Is there a reason lava rock wouldn't work? I'm trying to do it on the cheap.

For power i'm planning on building a small solar battery system to power the air pump. It seems its going to cost a little any other ideas? I know batteries but don't want to have to worry about remembering to switch them out.

Is there a better system for a first time hydro user to go with outdoors? The one condition is there can't be standing water around unsealed.

[malkop_zolkop]

I generally grow different varieties of peppers, onions and herbs.

lava rock works great in outdoor hydro. its just dirty so rinse it off really really well before using it.

deep water culture also works great outdoors. the pumps are in the garage and i just run airlines outside.

when people ask you (and they will) "what happens when it rains?" just tell them "then my plants get rainwater, too."

[Mrs.Babba]

Babba and I have a pretty big back yard, so we have grown a vegie garden for years, long before we grew mj in our back yard....last year we had about 35 tomato plants, peppers, cucs, squash, garlic, onions, and some herbs.....we do a salsa garden mainly cuz we love to make our own....last year I started organic seeds from a company in oregon but I think this year Im just going to buy starters, we grow Early Girls, they have a great size and flavor of all the types of tomates we have grown over the years, might throw a roma or cherry in there but focus on the Early Girls. Tomato plants are nortorious for getting thrips so if they are near your mj plants make sure you take measures to keep them under control.
Here is a pic of some of last years tomatoes

[dan kay]

humulus: do you have to use stronger pumps with the lines traveling that distance? It'd be a lot easier to do it that way then build a small solar setup to power the pumps. I just don't want extension cords running around the yard as that doesn't seem very safe.

[Spütnik]

just go to your local homedepot or elsewhere and get some heavy duty extra thick insulated (and some of these come with builtin fuses) extension cordes, then just bury it from the outlet to the shed or wherever, so as not to clip it with the lawn mower or anything.