My Hydroponic Deep Water Culture Bucket System
The first hydroponic system I ever built cost me $743. It was a sleek, pre-fabricated NFT system with digital monitoring, automatic dosing, and a user interface that looked like it…
My Hydroponic Peppers: From Seedling to Harvest
The first time I tried growing hydroponic peppers, I killed them with kindness. Not the gentle, well-meaning kind of kindness, but the overeager, helicopter-parent kind where I checked them literally…
My Indoor Garden Lighting Solutions: What Worked
I killed my first batch of seedlings with kindness. Specifically, with a 1000-watt halogen work light that I salvaged from my dad’s garage and set up approximately 8 inches above…
Indoor Gardening Without Soil: My Experiences
The first time I tried growing something without soil, it was completely by accident. I’d absentmindedly stuck a cutting of pothos in a glass of water on my kitchen windowsill…
Vertical Growing on My Balcony: Systems I’ve Tested
My balcony measures exactly 5 feet by 8 feet. I know this because I’ve measured it approximately 47 times over the last three years, always hoping that somehow the dimensions…