Mid November Farm Report

2022-11-15

As of this date, I have:

• SIX Smart Garden-3s,

• FOUR AeroGarden Harvests with

• FOUR Aerovoir reservoirs,

• THREE iDOO 12-pod gardens,

• ONE iDOO bucket,

• FOUR Amber 32-ounce Mason Jars with Kratky adapters, and

• THREE clear 16-ounce Mason Jars with Kratky adapters covered with Neoprene Sleeves.

• THREE Halo grow lights type 1

• TWO Halo Grow Lights type 2

• TWO Halo Grow Light Stand type 3

• TWO Bar style Grow Lights

Over half my equipment came directly from Click & Grow or AeroGarden or from Etsy. Some even came from Walmart. But all the links above are to Amazon.

Names

All my hydroponic equipment is named.

• The Click & Grow Smart Garden-3 units are collectively named “the Ranch” or "the Ranches." The individual units are labeled Rancho Cero (Ranch Zero in Spanish.) and Ranch One through Ranch Five.

• The AeroGarden Harvests are named Harvey[1], Harvey Too[2], Seble[3], and Teresa[4]. Each Harvest is served by a reservoir. They are named for water deities (female). respective to the Harvest they feed, they are named Shirley[5], Nancy[6], Lassy[7], and Anny[8].

• The two iDOO 12-pod units are Phredd and Ethyl and Lucy[9].

• The iDOO 6-pod unit is Sheba[10].

• The three amber Mason Jars. are Katemcy, Fredonia, and Grit[11],

• Finally, the four clear 16-oz. wide mouth Mason Jars wearing neoprene covers are Castor, Pollux[12], Jenny of New Jarsey[13]. and Black Bart[14].

Inventory

Inventory falls into broad categories - what seed pods are planted where and what seed pods are available to plant. A third category might be what seed pods are on order, and a fourth might be what hardware is there. I'll start with what's planted and where, using the same list as above.

The Click & Grow Smart Garden-3 Template

Ranchero Cero:

1. Click & Grow Red Sweet Pepper plants, in blossom .

2. Empty. Covered

3. Click & Grow Red Sweet Pepper plants, in blossom and fruiting.

Ranch One:

1. Some kinda pepper plant, at least three peppers.

2. Empty. Covered

3. Empty. Covered

Ranch Two:

1. Jalapeno plant in fruit, several ripe peppers harvested

2. Empty. Covered

3. Mini Tomato plant in fruit, one unripe tomato. [2022-11-20 Several unripe tomatoes]

Ranch Three:

1. Yellow Tomato, planted 2022-11-15

2. Empty. Covered

3. Yellow Tomato, planted 2022-11-15

Ranch Four:

1. It's not a tomato plant. It has blossoms and looks like peppers of some kind. [2022-11-20 harvested a handfull]

2. Empty. Covered

3. Empty. Covered

Ranch Five:

1. Empty. Covered

2. One Yellow Sweet Pepper plant. The ripe ones have been harvested. More are ripening.

3. Empty. Covered

The AeroGarden Harvest Template

Harvey: [Harvested a handfull of ripe peppers 2022-11-19.]

1. A prolific Red Fire Pepper plant bearing many peppers in various stages of ripening. Many have been harvested already.

2. Empty. Covered

3. Empty. Covered

4. Empty. Covered

5. Empty. Covered

6. A prolific Red Fire Pepper plant bearing many peppers in various stages of ripening. Many have been harvested already.

Harvey Too:

1. AeroGarden Salad Greens planted 2022-11-01 growing nicely

2. Empty. Covered

3. AeroGarden Salad Greens planted 2022-11-01 growing nicely

4. AeroGarden Salad Greens planted 2022-11-01 growing nicely

5. Empty. Covered

6. AeroGarden Salad Greens planted 2022-11-01 growing nicely

Seble:

1. Empty. Covered

2. Pepper Joe's Sweet Pepper, ten inches tall. Moved from Harvey Too

3. Empty. Covered

4. Empty. Covered

5. Romaine Lettuce, eight inches tall

6. Empty. Covered

Teresa :

1. MINT (sprouts in 0-2 more days) [2022-11-20 beyond the sprouts-by date, no sign of germination]

2. DILL (germinated 2022-11-12). shoots above the pod cover an inch

3. THAI BASIL (germinated 2022-11-12). Leaves above the pod cover

4. GENOVESE BASIL (germinated 2022-11-12). Leaves at the pod cover

5. THYME (sprouts in 0-6 more days) [2022-11-20 0-1 more day, no sign of germination]

6. CURLY PARSLEY (sprouts in 13-20 more days) [2022-11-20 8-15 more days, no sign of germination]

I'm almost shocked by the growth of the Dill. I expected such growth from the two Basils.

The iDOO 12-pod Template

Lucy: [2022-11-20 raised the light deck three inches.]

1. Empty. Covered

2. Pepper Joe's Mini Bell Pepper planted 2022-10-22 germinated 2022-10-31

3. Empty. Covered

4. Pepper Joe's Mini Bell Pepper planted 2022-10-22 germinated 2022-11-02

5. Empty. Covered

6. Empty. Covered

7. Empty. Covered

8. Empty. Covered

9. Pepper Joe's Mini Bell Pepper planted 2022-10-22, germinated 2022-10-28

10. Empty. Covered

11. Pepper Joe's Mini Bell Pepper planted 2022-10-22 germinated 2022-10-30

12. Empty. Covered

Ethyl: The light deck is raised to it's maximum height.

1. Empty. Covered

2. Empty. Covered

3. AeroGarden Marvel of the 4 Seasons 2022-10-22

4. Empty. Covered

5. Empty. Covered

6. AeroGarden Marvel of the 4 Seasons 2022-10-22

7. Romaine Lettuce under dome 2022-10-01

8. Empty. Covered

9. Empty. Covered

10. Empty. Covered

11. AeroGarden Marvel of the 4 Seasons 22-10-22

12. AeroGarden Marvel of the 4 Seasons 22-10-22

Phredd: The light deck is raised to it's maximum height.

1. Empty. Covered

2. Empty. Covered

3. Empty. Covered

4. Empty. Covered

5. Empty. Covered

6. Empty. Covered

7. Empty. Covered

8. Heirloom Cherry Tomato Plant 12 inches tall lots of baby tomatoes [2022-11-20 it might be a Golden Harvest. The tomatoes look like the ones in Sheba some time back, and that was a Golden Harvest.]

9. Empty. Covered

10. Empty. Covered

11. Empty. Covered

12. Empty. Covered

Sheba: (No template)

1. One Heirloom Cherry Tomato Plant, thirteen inches. Blossoms. No fruit yet, I think.

2. Empty. Covered

3. Empty. Covered

4. Empty. Covered

5. Empty. Covered

6. Empty. Covered

2022-11-19 Two revisions to the report with regard to Sheba. First, the bracket from which the lampshade around Sheba hangs has been raised. The screws were removed. The lower screw was re-installed using the upper hole. Then the upper screw was installed in a new, higher hole. It raised the bracket four inches. Second, a halo grow-light was wired to the spokes of the lampshade. It operates at 50%, 12-on/12-off. The top of the tomato plant is twenty inches tall now. The integral light and fan fixture has been turned as shown - It isn't tall enough.

The Lowell Kratky Jar succumbed to slime. Instead of cleaning the jar and planting something, I re-purposed the halo light to Sheba. Sheba's light and fan are at full extension and the tomato plant is taller. Leaves were getting burnt. Now the integral plant light is sort of off to the side and the halo lamp sits atop the lampshade's spokes. [2022-11-20 see Sheba edit.]

The Wide-Mouth Mason Jar Kratky Template

Grit:

1. AeroGarden Mini Jalapeño, 9 inches tall

Katemcy:

1. Click & Grow Wild Strawberry, ten inches tall, in blossom, lit by two light bars on staggered schedules.

Pontotoc:

1. Pepper Joe's Super Hot Pepper Seeds - 2. Lit by a halo on a stand. Started 2022-11-03, one inch tall.

Fredonia.:

1. AeroGarden Marvel of the 4 Seasons, germinated. Lit by halo.

Lowell:

1. Slimed. Retired. Halo lamp salvaged for Sheba.

Castor

1. AeroGarden Romaine Lettuce not germinated. Lit by halo.

Jenny of New Jarsey:

1. AeroGarden Genovese Basil pruned to nearly 6 inches tall. Lit by halo.

Black Bart:

1. AeroGarden Italian Parsley. Germinated. Lit by halo on a stand.

What's available to plant:

• Click & Grow Romaine Lettuce, 1 seed pod

• Click & Grow Red Romaine Lettuce, 3 seed pods

• Click & Grow Red Sweet Pepper, 4 seed pods

• Click & Grow Yellow Sweet Pepper, 3 seed pods

• Click & Grow Chili Pepper, 2 seed pods

• Click & Grow Yellow Tomato, 2 seed pod

• Click & Grow Chives, 3 seed pods

• Click & Grow Basil, 15 seed pods

• AeroGarden Romaine Lettuce, 26 seed pods

• AeroGarden Salad Greens, 18 seed pods

• AeroGarden Marvel of the 4 Seasons, 9 seed pods

• AeroGarden Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes, 10 seed pods

• AeroGarden Golden Harvest Tomatoes, 4 seed pods

• AeroGarden Pablano Pepper, 1 seed pods

• AeroGarden Bell Pepper, 1 seed pods

• AeroGarden Mega Cherry Tomato, 1 seed pods

• AeroGarden Italian Parsley, 1 seed pods

• AeroGarden Gourmet Herb Pouch, 2 pouches of 6 seed pods each

• Pepper Joe's Mini Bell Pepper Seeds - 1

• Sweetest Red, Yellow, Orange Mini Mini Bell Pepper Seeds - 20

• Caribean Garden Yellow Miniature Bell Pepper Seeds - 50

• EZ-Gro Gourmet Lettuce

• EZ-Gro Gourmet Lettuce

• EZ-Gro Gourmet Lettuce

• EZ-Gro Gourmet Lettuce

• EZ-Gro Gourmet Lettuce

• EZ-Gro Gourmet Lettuce

• loose seeds, 4 packets of various tomato seeds were Marie Condoed (disposed of) for failing to give me joy.

Hardware:

• Spare Sponges suitable for Click & Grow, bring your own seeds, 2 each

• Spare Sponges suitable for AeroGarden AND/OR iDOO, bring your own seeds, 120 each

• Spare Seed baskets suitable for Click & Grow, 13 each

• Spare Seed baskets suitable for AeroGarden only, bring your own sponge/seeds, 13 each

• Spare Seed baskets suitable for AeroGarden AND/OR iDOO, bring your own sponge/seeds, 13 each

• Spare Click & Grow Hothouse domes, 16 each

• Spare iDOO Hothouse domes, 15 each

• Spare AeroGarden Hothouse Domes (fits iDOO, too), 200 each (every seed pod kit comes with 1 per seed pod, plus a bottle of nutrients)

• iDOO cactus pod covers, 20 each

• iDOO regular pod covers, 15 each

• AeroGarden pod covers, 50 each

• Green Onion Seed Baskets, 12 each

• Scallion Seed Baskets, 3 each

• Flexible Pod Covers, 40 each, for surrounding plants to keep light off the sponge.

• 10 16-oz clear Mason Jars with neoprene covers

• 9 32-oz amber Mason Jars

• Other stuff, lots and lots. (Thermometers, pH meters, conductivity meters, remote temperature detectors, fast-reading meat thermometers... stuff.)

• 10 Etsy Kratky Wide Mouth Mason Jar AeroGarden Adapter as shown in the template

• 4 Etsy Kratky Wide Mouth Mason Jar 2" Basket Adapter

• 3 Etsy 2" Basket Adapters for Smart Garden-3s

• 3 Etsy Kratky Wide Mouth Mason Jar AeroGarden Offset Adapter with air bubbler.

• 3 Etsy Kratky Wide Mouth Mason Jar AeroGarden Center Adapter with offset air bubbler.

NOTES                                                      

1. Harvey is short for Harvest

2. Harvey Too is a play on Harvey the second and Harvey also

3. Seble is a female Eastern African, Amharic name that means Harvest

4. Teresa in numerous languages, also means Harvest

5. Lassy is from Thalassa- primeval spirit of the sea. She was a consort of Pontus and together they presided over the seas.

6. Nancy is from Naiad. In Greek mythology, the naiads are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water.

7. Shirley is short for Chalchiuhtlicue ("She of the Jade Skirt"), an Aztec deity of water, rivers, seas, streams, storms, and baptism.

8. Anny is for Anuket, the ancient Egyptian goddess of the cataracts of the Nile and Lower Nubia in general, worshipped especially at Elephantine near the First Cataract

9. Named for Fred and Ethel or The Mertzes, a married couple on I Love Lucy television show. Lucy is, of course, named for Lucille Ball.

10. It is far easier to refer to Sheba the She-bucket than to the "iDOO 2-in-1 Hydroponics & Soil Growing System, 6 Pods Hydro Indoor Herb Garden Up to 13.8", Plants Germination Kit with LED Grow Lights, Automatic Timer for Kitchen, Countertop, Home." That is just too weird, and way too long.

11. All of the amber mason jars are named for towns or cities in Texas. Grit, Fredonia, Pontotoc, and Katemcy are specifically towns in Mason County. The pun was irresistible.

12. Castor, Pollux, and Lowell are siblings in the Stone Family from Robert A. Heinlein's The Rolling Stones. Stone Mason jars... also irresistible.

13. Eldest grandson suggested I name a jar for my favorite romance author because of where she lives, hence: Jenny of New Jarsey for Jennifer Crusie. For all that it was not my pun, that too was irresistible.

14. Black Bart wears a black neoprene sleeve.

PHOTOS 2022-11-19