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I am a garden novice but I plan on using the garden in the next few years to provide more and more food for the family. ok, we would have starved by now. I had 4 tiny Okras. I chopped them up and put them in the skillet with mushrooms etc. However, we keep trying.

We grew Eggplant in our hydroponic garden. The Eggplant grew massive however it did not produce any fruit. We think this is an old maid eggplant. It needed fertilzation from beasties that also flew on to flowers from neighboring eggplants. This has not happend and my eggplant remained a virgin and never produced any vegetables. Who knew this about eggplant? I didn’t.

So we knocked down a shed and now have space for a topsoil garden. Bags or soil in a row, pierced with holes for drainage on one side, split down the middle on the other and then the plant grows directly in the bag. We are trying this for the first time with Endive (grown from seeds and in the hydroponic garden) and strawberries. Let’s hope it works.