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Hydroponic Cherry Tomatoes – Video

By geekgardener, on May 1st, 2012%

Cherry tomato is one crop I don’t get bored growing. Long trusses of fruits hanging all over the plant is just a pleasant sight to look at. I leave the tomatoes to ripen on the vine. So they taste a lot sweeter when they are harvested.

The cherry tomatoes that feature in this video are actually grape shaped. They are grown in bag culture. Actually I wanted to put them in paint buckets but bag culture is simple and cheaper to setup. With automated drip setup watering the plant at regular intervals, the plants have no other job but yielding nice tomatoes.

I actually wanted to make up for a month’s delay in post by writing the complete cycle of growing cherry tomato like my previous spinach post. But with the time so less and ocean of activities happening (I will keep that for the next post), I thought this video would convey most of what I wanted to write if not all.

Here it is folks,

Hope you all enjoyed watching.
Check out my channel http://youtube.com/user/TheGeekgardener

Ciao
GG

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Seed Starting Spinach – Howto Videos

By geekgardener, on May 1st, 2012%

Sounds like a familiar topic? May be it is… but I wanted to write about seed starting spinach for lot of reasons. Couple of weeks back, I was invited to ThoughtWorks, Bangalore to give a talk on Urban gardening to a group of techies.  I was quite excited. I had given talks like this before but this was the first of its kind. The talk went very well.  Many of them were very excited and had tons of questions. All of them had one question in common.. The million dollar question.. Which vegetable plant should I start with?

There are several plants one can start with. My recommendation is, always choose something that yields quickly and easy to grow. Spinach is a good candidate for starter project. Most of the times, I find myself explaining this. Hence I thought, I will make a video out of it. So without further ado, the videos of sowing spinach.

Part I

Part II

UPDATE: Part III.

UPDATE: Part IV

Hope you enjoyed watching this. If you like the videos, you can subscribe to my channel
Good luck on starting your vegetable garden.

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