Window Farm

Well, not being able to grow anything at the moment has me feending for some sort of garden.  i did some research on the internet, and stumbled across DIY window farms using hydroponics.  The idea intrigued me, so i read up on it and hydroponics a bit, and decided to give it a try.  luckily we have a great hydro store here in tel aviv, so i went over there to scout out what sort of equipment was available to me.  turns out they had…

Lemonade and Passion Fruits

A few weekends ago i was at my in laws, where i have my passion fruit plants.  it was looking rather sad since the last time i trimmed it, so i decided to trim out all the dead vines.   now since i did a similar thing  a year and a half ago, it was actually not too bad.  but once i got into trimming, i noticed a lot of dead vines. here is what it looks like before i started. you can see its…

Spring is here…

We have had a few nice hot days so far, and all this month my photo theme has been spring. the only bad part, i haven’t taken many pictures!! but i have a few that are spring-y to me. [flickr id=”7253398536″ thumbnail=”large” overlay=”false” size=”large” group=”” align=”none”] my hops (check them out here when they arrived) are doing amazing this year. its year 2 for them, and they get good sun exposure all day, and the soil is super warm in the back alley where they…