All I'm doing this year - deep water hydroponic tomatoes.
Could you provide a link to the "deep hydroponic" process?
I screwed around with hydroponics nearly 40 years ago, came to the conclusion that dirt was, well, dirt cheap. And more forgiving of people who had to leave for irregular periods. But that looks interesting.
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The last time I had a hydroponic grow going must have been about 1986. The apartment I had while going to school & cooking at several restaurants had HUGE South & East facing windows, was 2nd floor but had no balcony or yard space. I had a huge quantity of house plants (even trees) in my living room and a hydroponic garden in my bedroom... I didn't need curtains, my house plants did that for me. Best house plants EVER. Had an 8' tall Hawaiian Plumeria, it flowered there several times.
I eventually decided to move on. Moving out, last day of the month. 500 lb. or so of pea gravel was what I'd used for a hydro medium, getting THAT down the stairs and into the vehicle took me a while. It was 3:00 am when I finished, had the place cleaned up and got in the car to drive away. Two young men ran past me pushing a couple of new looking Honda mopeds just before I started the car. Odd... Why not ride?
Got going a little later. About 10 blocks towards the "cheaper" side of town, I overtook the same couple of guys, still running flat out pushing the bikes. And my dazed 3:30am mind finally made the connection that: A: those bikes were locked up at a building directly behind mine earlier today- B: they're being stolen by these dudes. Hit the high beams and 4 way flasher switches, leaned on the horn and turned into a drive right behind those kids (they looked about 14). They dropped the bikes instantly and FLEW through a backyard & over a fence...
Someone in the house stuck their head out to yell at me for waking them up. I asked them to call 911, please. 2 minutes later, the thieves started peeking over the fence, then peering at me from behind a building corner, checking me out and they did the math: 2 of them, 1 of me. They finally got up the courage to "(baby) pimp roll" out into plain view, slanged me for interfering with their heist and decided to threaten me with a knife right about when the police showed up. Another disappearing act ensued.
I explain what had happened to the officers, tell them which building the bikes were stolen from (they don't care, they're just going to take them to an impound lot). They saw the kids and know them, they're juvenile south side gang banger wannabees. 2 of the cops head towards their home address to wait for them...
So here I am, talking to 4 cops at about 4:00am. Who suddenly become interested in ME. Why am I even awake at this time? What was I doing? SAY, CAN WE LOOK INSIDE YOUR CAR?!! I was not holding. But I did have 500 pounds of hydro medium, various pumps, fertilizers, some grow lights and other "dual use" technology filling up my car... A long time before decriminalization. Suffice it to say, merely being an honest citizen is NO protection at such times. And no good deed goes unpunished.
Ah, memories.