Agriculture Reference
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High quality, water resistant construction
For precise temperature control
To buy Oasis Horticubes in small amounts is not easy because generally, they are sold in
large boxes for commercial growing. You
can
get them in small amounts at a few places so
'Google search.”
The following companies offer Oasis Horticubes in various size/amounts.
Or, enter “Oasis Horticubes” in a search engine (Google, Yahoo, Firefox, Opera, etc.) for
more selections.
It's been our experience that we almost force ourselves to
plant too much
to stay up with
the demand of harvesting our vegetables, because if we don't, we find that we must wait
several days for new seeds to sprout. So,
think ahead
, choose your seeds and decide how
many you want to plant and where you want to plant them in your Grow Table. If you'll
'think like a farmer' you'll be happier with your unit because it can only do what you tell
it to do.
It's a common mistake for early farmers to wait too long to harvest or plant too much of
one vegetable and then they are required to give away the surplus.
PLAN AHEAD
.
Make
planting- and-harvesting-calendars so you can maximize your production.
BEFORE you plant your seedlings into the gravel in the Grow Table, WATER THE OASIS
WITH TEPID WATER
FIRST
before you plants them so it's less of a 'shock' to the roots
when you place them in the gravel.
Continue to check each plant each day to make sure that the Oasis for each seedling is still
damp.
I recommend you continue to water your plants with a watering pitcher - by hand
if necessary - for the first few days or a full week after they are planted in the gravel in
the Grow Table (especially in the summer months and/or dyer climates). It takes the seed-
lings a few days for their roots to grow deeply enough into the gravel to reach the warm,
nutrient rich water that fills the Grow Table. If the water stays in the Grow Table instead
of draining after flooding, it will drown your seedlings and they will all die. We flood and
drain our Grow Tables twice per day (It takes about 40 minutes to fill a 20' Grow Table
