Here is an update on our first few aquaponic tomatoes, and they have color! Nearly ripe, I cannot wait to try this out to see how it tastes. There is another cluster of flowers that are turning into fruit. It will be interesting to see how much fruit this plant will produce in total.
Welcome to Humbleville, USA!! Here is a tasty and easy treat to make with the little ones … homemade fruit leather!! Apple sauce with no sugar added is a great base to make not only apple flavor fruit leather, but you can also puree in other fruits to add variety to your dehydrated fruit leather choices (strawberry is Clare’s second favorite flavor).
If you like this video, you may also enjoy our other dehydrator and food storage videos. Thank you and God Bless !!
Welcome to Humbleville, USA!! Well, we got a late start on the garden this year because early spring was so cold for so long. I really feel a bit behind. Due to my personal salsa consumption, we will try to step up our tomato and pepper production (sorry onion, we’ll set our sites on you for next year). Also, I feel like the yield from our 2015 garden could be improved.
We didn’t do a great job of keeping up with the watering. I’m hoping the drip irrigation system I’m installing will help us out. In addition, I will be using wood chips and other organic material as mulch to help the moisture retention. I’ve run into an issue with our rain catchment system, but that’s for another video.
God Bless !!!!!!!
Months ago, when I started what I thought was a new batch of thyme, these mystery plants cropped up. Sharing a picture on social media, the best guess was that these were probably tomatoes. And that is ending up to be true. Previously I thought perhaps these were grape tomatoes or possibly cherry tomatoes as this is what we mainly planted in the 2015 season. But these fruits are too big to be anything but a regular sized tomato. The picture below is of the main plant I have in my desktop aquaponic bed. There is one cluster of five.
The aquaponic tomato plant has grown more rapidly than the companion tomato plant that I left in a large pot. That being said, the potted tomato had grown to a nearly unmanageable size indoors in front of our west facing picture window. This past weekend we relocated it to the outdoor garden area. While this plant has not produced any fruit as of yet, there are clusters of small yellow flowers. We shall see if it will adjust to the transition, and see if I can keep it watered and fed enough to be a highly productive tomato plant.
God Bless !!!
Of the five chicks we brought home on Good Friday, there is one we suspect being a rooster. Three of the five chicks were Buff Orpingtons. In this picture below we see the suspected rooster, affectionately named Roo, next to another Buff Orpington. Obviously Roo has a much bigger comb and waddle. Additionally we will get a series of weak cock-a-doodle-doos in the morning from Roo. I’m so glad it isn’t a robust crow because our motto is … If it crows, it goes.
One of my friends who has a life long experience with chickens is giving us hope that Roo may yet be a hen. She noted the tail posture of Roo. It isn’t up like rooster like to do. Also, Roo doesn’t seem to be developing spurs. We probably have a couple of months or so before we will know for sure … but what do you think? Is Roo a rooster or a hen?
