Hydroponic Herb Garden!
Throughout history, people have spanned continents to make their food flavorful. Heck, that's half the reason Columbus came to America. My friends and I have tried a lot to grow herbs with surprisingly little success. It's kinda disheartening really, how easily some folks grow things that we can't seem to figure out. Oh well, I'm trying something new.
One of my dear friends (I have a lot of those...) has started a pretty big indoor hydroponic garden so he can grow some things year round for fresh eating. He pointed out on Black Friday that this line of grow systems was on sale so we jumped on one that is set up for growing herbs. As Melissa has broadened her flavor spectrum immensely, she's been begging me to grow herbs. We've had many a sad conversation about how terrible I am at gardening, especially in the herbal department.
Hopefully this can change my luck some. It has a sensor to add water and a timer to add nutrients, and the light is even automatic! It's not soil based, which is a big change for me, but it'll get us eating fresh herbs, so I'm cool with changing things up some. I'll try my own fertilizer sometime, but for now it came with one that's should work.
Has anyone else tried a hydroponic herb setup? What herbs did you grow? How'd it work for you? I've got gobs of seeds for other herbs once I fill a jar with some. This'll be a fun experiment.
All in an effort to help my family and friends eat like kings on a low budget.
Thanks for reading today! Hopefully I'll make some time soon for a longer post. I've got a couple ideas thanks to conversations with @generikat.
More to come soon, friends. Eat like Kings.
Hello, good evening, what an interesting machine! You will surely get good results, because if everything is dosed, it is quite likely that the plants will have all their requirements covered.
Your post is very good, however I proceed to mute it in the Foodies Bee Hive community, because although you make allusion in the text of herbs to make food more delicious, its content is typical of communities like Hive Garden or Agricultural Mindset, I invite you to visit them and see that there, this type of content, would be ideal.
Happy new year 2022. Best regards.
Fooey, sorry for not being applicable! I thought to put it in the herbal hive community, but I like to keep that one more for medicinals. Noted, I appreciate the support and direction! 💚
Any pointers for future posts? As someone that likes food and grows a fair bit of it, I'd like to post relevant content in your community there.
I would be happy to curate your posts. You could do recipes, you could do reviews of food places, for example restaurant visits.
Here are some suggestions for your future posts:
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Excellent, thanks! Basically this community is for cooking with the things I grow, not about how I grow them. Makes complete sense.
You can also share your food growing posts in the Natural Medicine community, and there is also a vegan community, for strictly vegan recipes or reviews: Plant Power (Vegan).
I thought NM had kinda faded out into hive garden and herbal hive? The vegan communities wouldn't like me much, I'm closer to carnivore.
Maybe I should make a carnivore community to balance it out...
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I've never had a problem growing herbs, they just need what they need: the right temps, the right water, excellent soil, and plenty of sun. I'm real leery of anything hydroponic, as I'd want the healthiest food I can grow and plants NEED the biology in the soil to be healthy.
I have a soil biology question actually, and I bet you have a good answer.
I've been working part time at a wagyu beef farm, and they've got a lot of manure there. They vaccinate, worm, and such, no antibiotics though. Are those medications gonna make the poo not good? The feed is all natural, they pride themselves on that, but my concern is mainly with the wormer and what it might do for my soil. I'd be able to get about as much of it as I could use, and I'm still collecting leaf bags so composting a big pile of yummy cow manure wouldn't be a logistical issue. But biology.
The wormer would worry me too. It's why I never used horse manure. Horses are typically wormed monthly. Cows much less often. I don't think anyone knows what the chemicals in the wormer would do to soil biology, I bet it's not been researched much...
But if they were using proper pasture management, there would be no need for worming. Read Joel Salatin...
I'm afraid it's quite the opposite of a Salatin model. It's a high-end grain feeding operation for wagyu and prime beef. The only pasture exposure would be in the case of an accident lol
I never knew that about horse manure. I used some (and a lot of the stable bedding) a few years ago, and those beds are pretty awesome now. The first year, not do much (it wasn't composted), but the worms in em now are pretty substantial, and we do have plenty of mycelial activity in there too. I'm thinking that's an indicator that the cow manure may be a viable option. I think I'll pick up a truck load or two and compost it down and see what happens.
First, both of your replies came through marked like this: This post is currently muted. Display post No idea why.
Maybe if it was composted for a couple years it would be ok, but as I do organic here, I'd not chance it. Also if it's a grainfed operation, chances are good there's roundup used at some point. Another reason I would not use it. If it is grain fed, chances are very good there's antibiotic use because of what grain feeding does to cow insides. And finally, grain feeding promotes perfect conditions in the cow's gut for e.coli which then passes out in the manure. You got kids running around there....
Not something I'd be bringing in, due to all this. If it was a grass fed operation, most of these conditions would not exist...
Ohhh, E. Coli. That's a big one I hadn't thought of. Good points, I'll have to pass this time. I hate to see such a huge resource and not be able to use it at home, but they do have a contract with someone already to use it on large scale agriculture. So I suppose it's not entirely wasted. Just not useful for little old Nate. That's okay, my rabbits poop plenty lol
I think the posts are popping up like that because I put this post in the wrong community (Foodies Bee Hive) and @sirenahippie muted it in that community. Something I've not experienced yet.
Oh, okay...