King Neptune’s Garden

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A 2 tier fill and drain hydroponic garden, I’ve named King Neptune’s Garden. We have a 24 gallon reservoir in a boat lazarette that holds the water and fertilizer. We have a marine pump that is connected to a 16 time a day auto timer; that pumps water for a minute or two to the top tier then gravity drains to the second tier then gravity drains back to the reservoir tank.
The system holds 18 plants. I typically grow big beef tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, mini sweet peppers, basil, rosemary, thyme, mint, and kale (I have terrible luck with oregano but try every year).
Our garden’s started with a different experiment called Poseidon’s Garden. The theory of Poseidon’s Garden was that plants could live in a non-circulating hydroponic system and the agitation of the boat movement would provide enough oxygen to the plant root system. The theory approved effective; however, we stopped using Poseidon’s Garden because it was not fixed to the boat and swinging projectiles underway can cause bumps on the head.
Below are a collection of Noon Reports that we report the condition of the garden. Please contact us if you have more questions. Always happy to help!

Six Inch Snowfall

October 23rd Howdy Ho everyone, Things have improved drastically for us. Our last noon report mentioned considerable troubles including a malfunctioning head that led a “poopy” of a day. Justin, if your reading this, it made us think of your “Sh*t-apocalypse of 2015″(this is as Justin calls his event), another […]

Hydroponic Gardening While Sailing

Poseidon’s Garden theory is in effect and working wonderfully! We are no longer circulating the water through the tubes in King Neptune’s Garden. Generally, on a timer 16 times a day water is pumped from a reservoir, stored in one of our compartments, into the top garden tube (aka fence […]

Wade and Sara Happy New Year 2017

Happy New Year 2017!

We are ringing in the New Year in Pape’ete Tahiti, and New Years Day with a new sail.  The last couple of days we have been busy getting food, fuel, taking down Christmas lights, raising the dingy, cleaning the boat bottom, doing laundry and it goes on and on.  Our […]

Just Drifting Anchored Near Passe De Taapuna

Passe De Taapuna

We planned for a play day, but ended up working. We moved the boat in the morning and anchored near the Taapuna pass, which is northwest Tahiti Nui. There are a lot of coral heads and the reef is nearby so we planned to paddle board for the day and […]

Wade and Sara View From Moorea Tropical Overlooking Opunohu Bay and Tareu Pass

Our Thanksgiving and Black Friday in Moorea

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day with pumpkin pie, turkey, dressing (southern stuffing), green beans, and mashed potato with gravy. We have two ovens one propane and one electric, so cooking everything was a breeze. Our Black Friday was busy exploring opposed to shopping. We started with the Moorea Tropical […]

Relais Mahana Resort Dinghy Dock

Internet Bums

Haha, we were boat bound for six days because of weather. With our Wifi amplifier we have been surfing the web and being internet bums. We wish the connection was good enough to upload more photos, but really the connection was only good enough for browsing, texting, and Christmas shopping!  […]

No Fish and Retiring Poseidon’s Garden

Huge bummer! We fished the entire way between Raiatea and Huahine with our new hand-lines and not even a nibble. We had a little hope when birds started to circle near the Avamoa Pass outside of the main village Fare, but then as we got closer they just sat on […]