Nutrition

Get a new toy, the Gardyn, and join a bunch of facebook groups: there's one for the product, one for the users, one for recipes, one for pets - stopped before this. A user James has been gone a step beyond with videos, documents like  Ph ,   and meetings. I started populating an Amazon list with extras based on his notes too. I tried to go high tech and got an inexpensive electronic device for measuring ph.  Mixed the powders with distilled water and calibrated it. It showed tap water as 7.3 and gardyn water as 6.8.  Not sure how often this needs to happen. May as well just have the strips  - similar to running a hot tub. James suggested I drop it to 6. I asked if I should do this with ph down or GSE  (grapefruit seed extract). Tracey has this regular process to clean and rehydrate with h202, fertilizer, and and hydroguard.   GSE is a powerful anti-parasitical, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal compound.  James allowed that the GSE would lower t...

 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...