I enjoy hobbies, and this one seems fun—I can combine my interest in resiliency, my love of cooking, and my pleasure in experimenting with code and hardware.
Thai basil seedling in expanded clay medium
I set up the garden kit this evening and transplanted three seedlings: rosemary, chive, and Thai basil. I’m using this system to begin with (I’m not a good gardener, so I needed all the startup help I could get) but the plan is to use this setup to learn the processes and then make a larger-scale, more complete system when I have more room.
The current system is smaller than most—especially if I were to try to add the aquaculture element now. Murray Hallam, who seems to know what he is doing, says that smaller systems are much less stable, prone to large swings in state. Part of the reason I’m going to try to monitor and automate this process is to get faster, more precise access to the state of the system.
