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Slow Growing
21.08.2023 - 11:45 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
Last Wednesday, our boiler stopped working. The thing that supplies our heating and hot water. Quite why they always chose to do that when you need a shower is beyond me, but they do. Anyway, the engineer came on Thursday afternoon, and given that our boiler is 13 years old, was a budget model when it was installed and has broken down for the third time in three years… we have decided to replace it rather than repair it. (It’s not 100% certain that it could be repaired.)
Which is fine, but it’s a busy time for the engineers and replacing the boiler will take a full day, and they can’t come for another two weeks. We’re getting by, boiling water to wash in and keeping a couple of rooms warm with electric heaters. It got a bit chilly when Storm Christoph decided it was going to snow on us, and the temperature dropped to -10°C overnight.
The Hydroponicum and the hydroponic seedling tray are in rooms that are currently unheated, and which are hovering around +10-12°C. I keep the doors closed, and only go in when necessary. The plants seem to be fine, although I can’t imagine they’re growing very fast. Not that it matters – I don’t fancy a cold salad for lunch anyway!
The seedling tray is currently home to Gupta’s Indian Mustard, for my heritage hydroponic salads project.
In the Hydroponicum:
Top left: 1 x Kale KX-1, 3 x rocket, 2 x Vivid Pak Choi and 2 x mizuna Top right: 2 x Osterley lettuce, 5 x rocket Bottom right: 3 x Vivid Pak Choi, 3 x mizuna, 2 x choy sum Bottom left: 5 x Outredgeous lettuce*, 1 x Kale KX-1, 2 x rocket
*The next edition of the food history magazine Eaten includes an article by me on ‘Outredgeous’ lettuce, following it from its first field to the International Space Station.
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