Red and Golden Tomatoes with Pot-a-Peno in an AeroGarden Bounty

I’m gonna have to try that, I’ve never had a tomato sandwich! They sound yummy! We’ve always just sliced them and sprinkled them with a little salt, or just sliced and ate plain. Home grown tomatoes are the bessst

I got it at Walmart! It’s been a few months since I’ve been inside an actual store instead of doing curbside, but last time I was there I saw them near the measuring cups in the kitchen tool area

Oh, those ARE nice!! My mom was a chemistry teacher for 37 years and has some beakers she likes to use around the house, yet it somehow never occurred to me to use beakers for nutes!!! Likely because no matter how much I love mom, I HATED chemistry (and most of the other sciences, weirdly enough), which generally leads to me forgetting about all its tools unless they’re directly in front of me. Weird how much I ended up hated memorizing chemicals but loved the higher mathematics, which requires just as much memorization as chem did. Guess I’m more like dad, his degree is in math, which has always made more sense to me than chem or bio. Random tangent - I took Geology as an elective in college and that was pretty much the only science class I’ve ever enjoyed, largely because of how entertaining the professor was. Like, my degree is in civil engineering and I didn’t even like physics, something engineers rely on every day to keep things from falling apart. It was the most boring class I’ve ever sat through in my entire life. The actual engineering courses were a lot of fun (I DESTROYED the grading curve in the structural analysis class, which was basically physics as it applies to building things, and is my favorite class even 8 years out of college. I may not use any of the formulas any more, but it gave me a hearty appreciation for fulcrums and spatial awareness that physics tried and utterly failed to drive home). Somehow pure science courses make even the coolest subjects dry and terrible.

As far as I know it’s still working, I’ll check when I get home from work tonight

Was just able to check, the pump is working correctly

airscapes mostly I just did a more thorough vacuuming than usual, used the hose attachment to make sure I got all the fallen leaves up from both the carpet and all the shelves, dusted with a damp rag around all the plants. The rag was just damped with water, no cleaning product. The biggest part of that cleaning was taking out my farm basic and doing a deep-clean/sterilizing of it, plus taking the peppers from the Farm XL into the bathroom to hose the plants down in the tub. When I finished all that I wiped the decks of the XL with Clorox wipes, but this Bounty is a good 3-4 feet away from there, I didn't hit it with any cleaning solutions. I DID spray all the plants in the room down with an insecticide, but it was a very light spraying that didn't seem to do the sort of damage to the left plant that it did on the right. Though it was the day after the spraying that the damage to the right plant happened, and it's always been a bit smaller than the one of the left. Maybe it was more sensitive?

Maggie's Farm 3-in-1 garden spray, which says it's safe for use on herbs and vegetables as well as houseplants (which I took to mean "safe to use indoors", my primary reason for buying it). It was the first time that I'd used it on that plant, which is why it was a very light spraying, I misted it once (as in, only pulled the "trigger" on it once) and left it be to see what happens. Next time I guess I'd better just do it on one leaf instead of holding it back far enough to hit the whole plant :|

Yeah all I can think is that your earlier comment about overfeeding is probably right, I did feed everything the same day I cleaned. I tend to round up to the nearest 5 when I feed, because that's easier to measure in my little cup, but I'll probably have to stop doing that to the tomatoes. The peppers have never minded (including the peppers I've got in my other Bounty), but it's an extra 3 ml for the Bounty vs the extra 1 ml that the Farms get.

I am feeding them AG nutrients, but didn’t get super close to the plants for the photo so not sure if there’s any blooms. I’d just been dealing with the farm with the bug problem and didn’t want to touch anything else and possibly make the problem worseFor the trellis, I don’t turn my plants. But it sounds like it makes it hard to get at the plant, so I’m going to take it down. I don’t think the AG tomato plants get that tall anyways.

After my two-day plant room cleaning spree, I finally went over and examined the tomato plants. I'm not seeing any blooms on there yet, but did spot a few nubs on the bigger plant that could be blooms-to-be. Got a nose-full of that nightshade scent as I was removing the trellis though lol!

I think it would get too crowded if I left all three plants in there. The two tomato plants will probably take up all the space (though I admit it’s been a long time I’ve grown AG tomatoes and don’t really remember how big they get). While I do live in NM where it’s nice and warm I’m actually planning to hang the pot-a-peno basket in the window of the same room I’ve got the AGs in, with a grow light to supplement the very limited sunshine I get in that window. My goal is to grow most of my own produce indoors because of how unbelievably hot it gets here in the summer, to cut down on how much water I’m having to use to keep a garden alive in that heat. Depending on how successful I am this year/into next year I might rip the entire back yard out, cap off the sprinkler system, and have native grasses/wildflowers planted back there that I don’t have to water to keep alive.

Yeah, all my indoor plants have grow lights on them because my house doesn't get much natural lighting sadly. I've had to battle bugs a couple times, but so far I've been able to get rid of them with minimal losses. I look forward to seeing how this goes and sharing what happens!

This was too good not to share: A second reason that I want to take my gardening indoors. The video was shot in Lubbock, about 200 miles east of where I am. We experienced the same weather shown here, and it's somewhat regular. Even with a good cinderblock fence around the back yard, storms like this tear the hell out of a garden as well as drying it out. And since I work for the railroad, 6 hours of my shift was spent sitting in a car next to the tracks, taking wind readings so I could tell the dispatcher when it was safe to run trains again. I clocked a lot of time on my phone today lol. Confirmed wind speeds up to 80 mph at one point.

I love all tomatoes! p: I’m looking forward to having some cherry tomatoes!