February is rushing by.

What's happened to the month?
It's almost gone, between the storms and 33 plus heat, not to mention the usual February humidity its been fun and it has not finished yet. Being able to quickly cover my Grow house means I am in control and avoid the plant damage that would occur in conventional gardening.

Enjoying another of my new lettuce varieties " Salad Bowl Green " like the "Darwin" variety they are excellent picking lettuce and just keep bouncing back with new growth. I defiantly recommend for mid
summer growing.
Also doing well is my Beet-root, onions, capsicum, and eggplant plus stacks of Herbs.

Salad Bowl Green

 Finally got the Malabar Spinach planted into a 10" Hydrotray and its rocketing away.

Malabar Spinach

Tomatoes are now hanging from the roof especially my Pink Pearl and Hybrid 101 varieties.

My Second planting of Black Russian are now setting so things are on track.

Pink Pearl

Hundreds of flowers

2nd Black Russian Planting

Looking forward to the winter veggie season,

My Clay Ball Experiment

A little time back I mentioned I wanted to try Clay balls as a medium just to see what happens.
Well I am pleased with the results for several reasons.
1. I notice they don't grow algae like the Perlite / Vermiculite Mix can.
2. Its very stable and supportive in the wind due to its weight.
3. It will wash up for re usage.
Has the plant develop well YES take a look

Capsicum in Clay Ball Medium

This plant is in a 12" single Hydro tray it gets the same food supply as everything else.

it is sitting on about 5 ml of Perlite 50/ 50 Mix which I use in all my plantings, I call it my wick.

the plant is sitting right down onto the Perlite base with the rest of the space filled with Clay Balls.

This now leads me to possible experimenting with pebbles or road chip.

While on the subject of new things I have been given an interesting couple of plants that I have set up a special place to grow due to there vigor, its commonly called Creeping Spinach but it has a list of names depending which country you come from but it is called "Basel la Alba" or Malabar Spinach it can grow up to 10 meters very prolific growth with the leaves and vine being use extensively in Asian cooking.

Being such a quick grower I am interested to record its performance under the
Autopot System.

Malabar Spinach

This is the spot that I will grow it on

I have set up a special place that I will plant the seedling into a Hydrotray so I can keep a close eye on its progress an d it will make picking easy.