Vegetable Time!

Hi everybody, I'm Fielding. It's great to meet you all and I'm glad you could make it out to my first post: Vegetable Time!

In this post, I'll be telling you about my trip to Home Hardware and the vegetables I'll be growing.

Yesterday, I decided i was finally going to use this hydroponics equipment i had lying around for something, so after class i went to the Home Hardware and Ontario Seed Company. Have you ever been there? It's like someone dumped a whole Canadian Tire store into a living room and hired an army of grandmothers to sell it all. What a glorious place.

I make my way to the back where the seeds are and theres a whole wall of them. They have at least 5 kinds of tomatoes and 10 kinds of peppers. After perusing for a while and consulting a nice q-tip-headed lady on what kinds would be suitable for a small indoor hydroponic vegetable operation, I settle on:

Patio Tomatoes (BLT material)
Dill (for dill hummus, thanks to Pilot Pita for the idea)

Grand Rapids Lettuce (L of BLT fame)

Gypsy Hybrid Peppers (yellow sweet peppers)

I also got some small bricks of Coco Coir for my soilless medium ($2 each). I love this stuff, it has great aeration and water capacity. I am very interested in investigating the cation exchange capacity of this material. I suspect it will be high indeed because it is just awesome stuff.

After purchasing some plant markers and some batteries, my total expenditure wasn't much more than 15 dollars.

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edit 19/11/2010: I am germinating them right in the coco: The seeds were planted yesterday approx 1/4" deep in 4" pots. Where the spacing recommendations in the packaging called for larger spacing, I put fewer seeds in each pot.