Here’s the plan this year. I don’t have a lot of space and no good spot to do a large garden plot. I did one offsite at a friend’s farm but it wasn’t practical to care for it properly driving to a different site every night.
The small squares are stackable 2’x2’ frames that I can vary in height depending on how much soil depth they need for whatever I am growing in a given year. The large squares are 4‘ x 4‘ raised beds and the large rectangles are 2‘ x 6‘ raised beds. For the tomatoes I’m going to try 10 gallon nursery pots and for the peppers I’ve got a bunch of 3 gallon nursery pots that will just be shuffled around to maximize sun exposure. We have such a short growing season here that I’ve never managed to get my red bell peppers all the way to red with mature seeds that I can get to germinate the following year, and I’ve never been able to get wicked ghost peppers to produce fruit just lots of blooms. This year is going to be particularly short because I would normally be getting everything in the ground two weeks from now but the yard is still completely covered in snow, as are most of my beds.
I wish I had a couple of 1000 watt high-pressure sodium bulbs in a room in the basement so I could keep the party going and just grow stuff all year from cuttings rather than seed.
In the past I’ve had totally bagged rooms with up to 16 lights, CO2 generators, fully automated nutrient delivery and ventilation systems, the works. It would be cool to even just get one of those aero systems again with the six tubes that face each other like bleachers, with the light hanging in the middle. I’ve gotten pretty good yield off of those in the past. But those weren’t food crops 😉
