Nutrition

 Had a request for names on Facebook and chose Paffy's Pipedream for my first Gardyn.  Part of the reason I chose this, is the variety of stuff I knew I wanted to grow.  Now I am being tempted by all the options  (flowers?!!!) and I expect multiples of the frequent salad bits to need rotating duplicates. No wonder some people get multiple units.  I am just one person - let's at least get a harvest under the belt. See how I feel about it next fall (after a summer of being home little). What naming the individual plants? yipes. So Monday I thinned my plants and added fertilizer. Wondering if I should have done a mini clean then as the monthly timer counts down. However it seemed quite clean. I am thinking maybe a month from adding fertilizer. Clearly when I add water will be a good time to reconsider. The Gardyn documentation does not address PH - rather assuming the montly change will keep everything in balance. Probably should have stuck with strip testing. Boug...

It has been a couple days shy of three weeks since the first gardyn box arrived and I put the seed cubes in water. While I started getting messages around day 10, and clearly others are ready then, Mine was not ready then, <video from Dec 7> Went away for a few days and could not hover. I am disappointed in the quality of the kelby pictures. Also it did not always show pictures from the same times on both cameras (skipping times). Additionally some of the pictures were taken in the dark and were worse. The true leaves were more obvious to me when the leaves were serated. On the rest, I seem to be going for a count greater than two. (Can add all of today's pictures with blogspot on the computer but not on my android phone with blogger.) According to the written documentation it is ok to thin at 2-3". Most were shorter. As it was some were so close as to be hard to tell which leaves came from which stems. Put 3 teaspoons (as measured by the spoon that came with. Allegedly ...