Category: Aeroponics
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Cranford Farm – Grow Your Own Garden Series
2017 Garden walls completed, driveway tarmacked and our gates fitted. This left us to focus on planting up our front garden and courtyard with a limited budget. We decided to try to grow as much of our garden as possible. So we could focus the budget on greenhouses, aeroponics, polytunnels, seeds, bulbs, seed tents and…
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Aeroponics Pyracantha – Cranford Farm – Aeroponics Series
Aeroponics Pyracantha Progress – 2020 Two and a half years after the cuttings were taken and propagated. We used Aeroponics and the Pyracantha bushes continue spreading well in our front border. You can see move about this as part of our Aeroponics series Pyracantha 2017. They provide good ground coverage and growing tall against the…
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Cranford Farm – Garden HighPro XL Probox Propagator Tent
Propagator Tent – October 2019 At the beginning of October 2019 we purchased a Propagator Tent to help extend the growing season and help us better utilise the greenhouse and polytunnel. We use it to start our seeds off and it is also somewhere to nurse cuttings when they come out of our X-Stream Aeroponic…
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Cranford Farm – Aeroponics Series – Pyracantha – 2019
Progress 2019 In April the pyracantha are planted in the flower border. Without the benefit of bulbs or annuals the garden is looking a little sparse. A couple of months later the pyracantha are settling into their new home well and are growing out as well as up. Download QR
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Aeroponics Pyracantha Cuttings – Aeroponics Series
Aeroponics Pyracantha Cuttings – November 2017 Aeroponics Pyracantha Cuttings were one of the first things we propagated using aeroponic propagator (GroWell 120 Plant Aeroponic Propagator) and a Propagation Light. Using a readily available Pyracantha shrub to take some cuttings, which was growing through one of our fences in the back garden. Setting the timer provides…
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X-Stream Heated Aeroponic Propagator – Blueberry Cuttings
Aeroponics – Blueberry Cuttings – October 2017 In September we started some Aeroponics Blueberry Cuttings along with some other fruit bushes and shrubs in our X-Stream heated propagator. After about a month the blueberry cuttings are doing well. It won’t be long before they are ready to transplant into pots. Then overwintered in the greenhouse…
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X-Stream Heated Aeroponics Propagator – Lavatera (Tree Mallow)
On 8th July 2017 we took possession of some Lavatera cuttings from my sister-in-law and brother-in-law. When we took the cuttings the Lavatera was hosting a beautiful display of pink flowers and was probably standing about six feet tall. By 20th July 2017 two of the cuttings were starting to develop long roots. A third one started to…
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Aeroponics Series – Blackcurrants – 2017
Currants seem to be the quickest thing to root in the Aero , we have had signs of roots in 4 days . We have been growing these to plant up in the back garden. Once they have started fruiting, we will pick the blackcurrants. Freeze them and then use them in smaller quantities to…
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X-Stream Aeroponic Propagator
We first stumbled on the idea of Aeroponics whilst watching Gardner’s World. A propagator was being used by a grower to increase the speed and the amount of plants he could reproduce. After some research the next morning we decided on the X-Stream 120 Site Propagator and quickly purchased one. In addition we purchased a…
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Aeroponics Series – Hops
As you can see from the images once the hops get going the roots romp off ready to go into potting compost and the grow tent . Download QR