Cleaning out the old beds

Here are more photos of Christa cleaning out the old beds.

Crappy garden weasel

We were out planting today and I tried using my new garden toy. Needless to say I am not pleased. It only took 5 minuets to snap the end off. Obviously there 100% garantee does not mean they make a durable product.

LED Light

bottom of the LED light with the blue leds installed



Top of the LED light showing the lead conetions now I have to make the 536 solder joints.

Stevia

Here is the Stevia plant that came form the nursery in Ohio. At least the USDA can't destroy this one!

Seedlings and transplants

Here are the seedlings at 2 weeks. We already had to transplant the pumpkins.





Here are plants that we got form a nursery in Ohio.

Seedlings

Seedlings at 1.5 weeks. Everything is cumming along nicely.

LED light

Here the wires from the Red led strips


Here the center row of 5mm leds are installed. This is a row of yellow leds

Power supply

Here is my power supply. It is a simple full wave unregulated circuit. Its output is 30v DC at 2A.

Led light

Here is the progress of the LED light. I have drilled all of the holes and mounted the Red led PCBs


Here is a close up the the red strips. They are made form scrap FR4 with SMT high output red LEDs mounted with epoxy. They are Daisy chained with buss wire and supplied power with 30 gauge wire. I have to arrange the circuit for a 12/13 arrangement to make them work with the power supply I am building. I then mounted them to the aluminium plate with RTV and screws.

Aluminium for the LED light

Here is the layed out aluminium sheet for the LED light now allI have to do is drill 350 holes in it.

LEDs

I received my BLUE leds for the grow light

Killawatt

In an effort to track and cut down on the electric used I have acquired a kill-a-watt meter. This will be used for the LED grow light project. Hopefully I can design and build a LED grow light that is comparable to the fluorescent bulbs at greatly reduced power consumption.

Seed staring 2009

It is time to start seeds for the 2009 season


Seeds getting planted


Seeds in the green house

Start of 2009 garden

Here is the state of the garden after winter.
The over wintered carrots were dug up with disappointing results. They turned into mush after thawing out.
As you can see there is remnants of last years plants and cages that were not pulled at the end of the year so there will be extra work to do before planting.

Last harvest

This is the last harvest of the year. We getting frost next week so it is time to clean house. Cut remaining kohlrabi. Picked all of the peppers green or not. Picked remaining tomatoes. The only thing left in the garden are the carrots