May 25: Vegies are coming along well

Hydroponics has been growing like crazy this past month.  We have flowers and fruit on our cucumbers, and a few flower buds on the chillies too now.  The basil is almost fully grown and it is just being harvested as needed by plucking the leaves from the plants.  The lettuces and kale are also close but we will give  them another week or so.  Our experiment with the rocket  so we are seeding up more of that.  On the hilarious side, the celery that we planted grew into radishes!  just
We are pretty chuffed about the results so far, as our hydroponics supplies didn't make it in on the resupply voyage, so we are being as inventive as we can  in how we use the remaining media and chemicals.  Actually...maybe that explains the radishes!


Daily pH and nutrient checks. Photo: Jacque Comery

The first cucumber. Photo: Jacque Comery

Cucumbers getting taller. Photo: Jacque Comery

Tomatoes and basil. Photo: Jacque Comery



Tomatoes and basil. Photo: Jacque Comery