Meanwhile

The original AG is still going apeshit, and I am trying to harness the surplus lumens to grow side projects. The pink pot has a delapidated sweet potato vine, plus several seedlings that appear to be little pepper plants! They are more than a year old but only a couple inches high.

My beloved ornamental pepper in the middle started blooming like mad after getting some grow light. However, this is the first little pepper I've had in a while. I think it is the parent of all those little seedlings.

BTW, is it safe to eat purple peppers? I'm still alive, but curious none the less.

We have ignition

Turn it on and wait. Again I am struck by how pleasant the cool white light is.

Meet the meadow

I opted for the "Mountain Meadow" pods. I put the yellow one in the front.

Meet the Aerogarden 3

I am way behind on postings for the newest member of the Aerogarden family, the Aerogarden 3!

It is supposed to have about the same footprint as a coffee maker, and that seems about right. It will even fit under my kitchen cabinets, that were too low for the original AG.

Tomatoes gone wild

After four days, the tomato seedlings are already at the top of the little cover.

Aerogarden sprouts!

I finally got something extracirricular to sprout in my Aerogarden! The Burpee's Better Boy hybrid tomato seeds. It just took a couple of days.

China bans plastic bags

The Green Daily blog alerts me that China has leapfrogged the U.S. in an environmental aspect; it has banned stores from giving out plastic bags: http://www.greendaily.com/2008/01/08/plastic-bags-unwelcome-even-in-china/

The familiar t-shirt bag was invented here in South Carolina by a company called Sonoco. They became truly ubiquitous.

I don't have too, too much of a problem with them, since they are supposed to be biodegradable, sorta, but for some reason there always seems to be one in the tree tops. Of course, you have to put trees to the axe to make paper bags, but they seem to be more reusable.