Kerry’s Garden

I was home from work today with some kind of cold or what ever is going around. We have strep in the house but no sore throat here which I am VERY thankful for. Perhaps I will escape that. I didn’t crawl out of bed till about 2 pm and remembered that it was already [...]

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With last year’s drought a distant memory I am preparing for this year’s garden. Things are pretty soggy outside and have been for some time. I am sure the trees are loving this moisture. It hasn’t been very cold but fortunately cold enough to keep things dormant so far in my yard. This wet and [...]

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These babies are Big Beef, Celebrity and Classica. The seed was a couple of years old in some cases and yet it looks like every one sprouted. These are growing in the float tray. It wasn’t till last week that I realized I planted my tomaotes about a month earlier than I had planned to. [...]

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This year’s Big Beef tomatos are making an entrance albeit slowly but surely. I ended up placing a heating pad (on low) half way under the plastic bin to bump up the temps a bit. I don’t know if that did the trick or not but according to the thermometer it added about 5 degrees. [...]

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I said I was only going to get two but I ended up picking up 3 grape vines last night via Millers. I located a publication on growing grapes in Ky from the Univ. of Ky (great ag college there). I’ve worked with 3 of the 6 authors of this publication during my time at [...]

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A new round of LUL was started to day. The last round went well with the lettuce producing till it got to the point of being overgrown, unmanageable and matured to the point of becoming slightly bitter. The remaining goldfish is still kicking and it appears that the ammonia it helped produce was enough to [...]

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Week 6 Not much new to report. It has pretty much regrown from the last harvest. I move the lights up as the leaves grow into them. The water has evaporated to a point where I should add some more soon. You can see that the water is getting a little green. I haven’t fertilized [...]

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