Help it Grow (Part 5)

More on the indoor growing front.  Well, nothing really new, just more photos. My attempts at growing basil inside have been technically successful, but basil really doesn’t appreciate the scanty light provided by fluorescents, lending me to believe, as I had suspected, that the photos of those green and busy basil plants on the boxes …

Perspective

With the looming winter there just aren’t as many projects to undertake (and to write about), but rather than make yet another video game post I thought I’d ramble a bit about economic and workplace observations.  I’m sure that sounds riveting, but I’m not one to mislead with a false premise.  If you prefer, simply …

Aphids

When I brought my pepper plants inside to overwinter, I did not anticipate an aphid scourge.  In fact, I’ve never experienced an aphid problem before, so the threat didn’t register.  In the past, I once had a colony attack some bindweed, but as they left everything else alone, I wasn’t concerned, and in fact left …

Standards

I really like my indoor grow light basement setup.  With the average first frost in the region to be around 10/19, I’ve been revisiting the setup and considering what I’m going to be keeping inside overwinter.  And as I pondered the setup, I thought about how much easier things would be if I had a …