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RE: Gardening in Straw Bales - Mid Season Update....
Interesting how different techniques can produce so well. I read a blog yesterday about someone growing lettuce out of stone in their greenhouse. Crazy. I grow in raised beds with compost and mushroom soil and leaf mulch from the prior year. That works well for me.
Nothing works and everything works, I believe it comes down to figuring out what is the best system for your unique situation, it seems there is always a solution, you just need to find it! Glad the raised beds are working out for you. Mushroom compost is the best! Thanks....
Hi there, this is Mrs. SVF. We also have an Aquaponics system in our house which has not been written about yet, but growing lettuce in stone is happening in the house, we have pea gravel as the base, the lettuce is fertilized by fish that are in a tank underneath the "lettuce bed" Water in cycled by pump and filter. We have not had aa great quantity of lettuce come up but it is growing. Our parsley and oregano are also doing well in the Aquaponics. An inexpensive method for indoors if you have enough space. plants are bug free and tasty! I love being able to pick a leaf and in a few days there is another leaf to replace it.
Sounds awesome. Unfortunately I'm not setup for an operation like that.
We can do a blog on it so you can see, it not big at all. We are using it as a test plot to see if we want to expand it to a size that we can produce product year round and provide lettuce and other items to local restaurants.
I would be interested in seeing your operation. Thanks