The great summer experiment this year is coming along very well and I’m very close to finalizing a design for a balcony, patio, deck or terrace (whatever you want to call a small private space with no place to stick a shovel) hydroponic vegetable garden.  It’s very exciting because at this point I have a design that not only is dead simple to work with and  is recognizable to just about anyone as a garden but it can also be brought to market for a better price than anything else out there.

I can swear to you that the plants I have in the hydroponic gardens are growing better than my pampered little beauties in their pots of compost- and they are much easier to care for- probably because I don’t have to water them every day and don’t need to worry that they’re going to just about expire if we get a hot day and I’m not around to water them

This is what I was aiming for when I started this project.  High yield, organic and super low maintenance vegetable gardens in a small space.  It’s all coming together now, but there was one thing I had forgotten about – Earwigs!

In my 20’s I did battle with them, only to learn that it isn’t worth the trouble and now I have them again, hiding in the lettuce, dining on my basil and chewing great jeezly holes in my peppers.  Thirty years later and almost nothing has changed – except me.