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By: All Things Eco Blog Carnival Volume Seventeen | Focus Organic.com

All Things Eco Blog Carnival Volume Seventeen | Focus Organic.com — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:31:10 +0000

[...] home. Sounds strange, but I got some good stuff! It was like a free tag sale Frugal Babe presents A Greenhouse posted at Frugal Babe. From the article: My husband is building a greenhouse. Our hydroponic garden [...]

By: FrugalBabe

FrugalBabe — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:04:48 +0000

@Francois – homegrown veggies taste great, because you harvest them when they’re ripe and eat them as soon as they’re harvested. And no, we don’t use any chemicals. We compost all of our leaves, grass clippings, coffee grounds, and produce scraps, and that’s our fertilizer for our outdoor garden. In the hydroponic garden, we use an organic nutrient solution designed for hydroponics.
@Karen – we do use a grow light in our hydroponic garden. We have the garden set up in our crawl space, so there’s no natural light at all.
@Sense – As soon as we get it assembled, I’ll be posting pictures. I had a hard time visualizing it when my husband first described it
Thanks for all the comments – we’re excited about this project, and happy to be taking one more baby step towards self-sufficiency. And between our baby and the various projects we’re working on right now, I just noticed that our TV hasn’t been turned on in at least three days, maybe more.

By: Riaan Oosthuysen

Riaan Oosthuysen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:45:44 +0000

Wow, this is a great project. I think we must put some veggies in the soil this summer.

By: Sense

Sense — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:54:58 +0000

very cool…can we get a pic? I’m still having a hard time seeing it.

for any budding gardeners, i suggest the book ‘animal, vegetable, miracle’ by kingsolver if you haven’t read it already!

By: rachel

rachel — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:42:27 +0000

The primary temptation I have to move from apartment to house is to have a garden. I really enjoyed gardening with my mom as a child, but I am not sure my own children will have that experience… Most likely they will have to get it from volunteering.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:41:15 +0000

This is so cool. I live in an apartment, so no outdoor garden for me, but I’ve been trying to grow herbs forever and just can’t keep them alive. Any tips for hydroponic gardening? Do you use a grow light or natural sunlight?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:22:41 +0000

I’m in awe of your green pursuits. You should be Frugal Green Babe

By: Abigail

Abigail — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:03:32 +0000

Wow! I’m jealous. Makes me miss my old garden back when I had a house.

Man, I miss fresh-grown veggies (at non-farmers’ market prices)

By: Francois Viljoen

Francois Viljoen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:15:05 +0000

Wow, what a project.

I’ve never grown my own veggies so this may sound a bit silly.

But do they taste different to the ones you buy? Is it better or worse?

I suppose you also don’t use any pesticides / chemicals?