Hi Pebbles and Fluffy
Yes hydroponics is a subject all of its own and there is such a lot of enjoyable stuff to learn as you work the system. We are currently cutting lettuce,mustard,oriental greens (pak choi etc),rocket and other stuff that will grow without heat. We bag up the leaves and sell the bags locally,freshly harvested,no pesticides,unwashed by our doubtful local water and low food miles. People trying the salad bags ;or correctly their contents ,seem to relish the diverse flavours of the mixed leaves. Sadly the rubbish that is sold in some of the big shops is a wishy washy mush with no flavour whatsoever.
The bags we pack the leaves in are made of corn starch so are easy degraded in the compost heap. Expensive but worthwhile.
We are very busy getting ready for next year as our season seems not to end. In two weeks time we start sowing tomatoes and onions and then in Jan/Feb.the real sowing takes off with early legumes and flowers.It is all so exciting and the beauty of hydro., is that you do not need a lot of land even a small back garden can be very productive as long as you use your imagination.
Rowena updates the website regularly so keep browsing.
WD