You know, when people ask me about <a href="https://onemanplants.com/winter-hydroponics-keeping-plants-happy-in-cold-weather/"><a href="https://onemanplants.com/winter-hydroponics-keeping-plants-happy-in-cold-weather/">my biggest hydroponic disaster</a></a>, I always tell them about what Linda now calls "The Great Mint Invasion of 2019." See, most…
The moment I realized I'd become completely obsessed with <a href="https://onemanplants.com/my-first-year-of-rainwater-harvesting-the-results/"><a href="https://onemanplants.com/my-first-year-of-rainwater-harvesting-the-results/">rainwater collection</a></a> wasn't when I started measuring every storm in my weather journal, or even when I began calculating…
You know, I thought I had my irrigation systems pretty well dialed in when something completely unexpected happened – Linda started growing microgreens in our kitchen. I mean, I’ve got…
Three years ago, if you'd told me I'd be standing in my kitchen at 11:30 PM on a Tuesday night, measuring lettuce roots with digital calipers while my nutrient solution…
You know that moment when you're staring at a $35 bottle of hydroponic nutrients that just… fell off your shelf? Yeah, that was my introduction to <a href="https://onemanplants.com/aeroponics-vs-hydroponics-my-side-by-side-test/"><a href="https://onemanplants.com/aeroponics-vs-hydroponics-my-side-by-side-test/">the real…
You know those random 3 AM ideas that seem brilliant until your alarm goes off? Yeah, well I had one of those last month that basically destroyed my plant budget…
There was this period last summer where I basically lost my mind over water droplets. I mean completely, utterly obsessed with watching irrigation emitters do their thing. Mike found me…
The whole thing started because I'm ridiculously cheap and hate throwing away anything that might still be useful. I was making a sandwich one evening after work, trimming the bottom…
You know how sometimes you get really proud of something that's actually pretty basic? That was me with my <a href="https://onemanplants.com/building-my-off-grid-rainwater-system/"><a href="https://onemanplants.com/building-my-off-grid-rainwater-system/">rainwater collection setup</a></a> three years ago. I had these…
Nobody told me I'd actually miss having dirt under my fingernails. After years of dealing with Portland's clay soil and <a href="https://onemanplants.com/vertical-garden-watering-solutions-my-diy-approach/"><a href="https://onemanplants.com/vertical-garden-watering-solutions-my-diy-approach/">building vertical gardens</a></a> in every spare inch of…