Welcome gardening enthusiasts to the next update on my indoor lettuce wall garden so you can follow along with the progress from seed to harvest. It's been 14 days since the last update and about 40 days since the seeds were started.
So far the results have been typical to cycles in the past. Most plants are growing as expected and we have been eating leaves from the bigger lettuce plants growing from the previous cycle. The rest of the lettuce will be ready to begin eating from bythis weekend. With proper harvesting of the bottom leaves from different plants in rotation, they should continue to grow bigger and provide food for 30 days. During this time I will need to get the next plants growing and ready to swap out to keep a continuous cycle of harvestable leaves.
Current view of everything growing in the wall garden.
This week I will be getting my outside hydrogarden system up and running - finally! The cucumber plants I temporarily put in this system (top left and bottom left spots) will be moving outside and the lettuce plant on the left/middle row that got all "leggy" will be taken out. I will fill the spaces with some herbs, probably cilantro and parsley, and maybe one or two new baby lettuce plants.
I decided to skip the intermediate garage step this time and get things going out front this week since I need to get the plants established before the sun angle drops too low. I will post about this by the weekend as I go.
Close up of plants on the middle row.
Close up of plants on the top row.
One of my pepper plants temporarily in the wall garden.
Peanut Plant Update
My gift from the squirrels is doing good. It seems to be growing at a rapid pace with new stalks coming up over the past week and this morning the first yellow flower bloomed. The main plant that sprouted first has doubled in height, I have a picture below to compare the height against the window frame.
According to what I have read about growing peanuts, we are on day 20 of an average 90 day time to harvest. So sometime around November 1st is the target date to pull it up and see what we get. Supposedly the plant starts to develop the nodes that become peanuts once the flowers start blooming.
A few more stalks have sprouted up around the main one.
The first flower opened up this morning.
Comparing the growth over 20 days.
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