12/02/2022
Vegepod spinach and lettuces kicking in a month after planting. It took us a while to get our resettled at our new place. Had to level the footprint and squeeze it into the upper garden, but it’s in a sunny, choice spot for year-round production.
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What we love about our Vegepod is the lush growth, and the speed of that growth—leafy greens just seem to explode out of it a few weeks after planting, especially in the transitional seasons of late fall and early spring. There’s something about the thermal properties that just accelerates growth. The elevated soil bed—deep enough for a healthy root system, but shallow enough to warm up quickly after the sun comes up—and the dome create a perfect microclimate. If we plant the Vegepod and a standard raised bed at the same time, we’ll be harvesting from the Vegepod 2 weeks before the raised bed. The dome also keeps birds, rodents, and insect pests out. Spinach leaf miners are a major pest for spinach, beets, and Swiss chard in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have to check for eggs every few days—or spray Spinosad weekly—or the leaves will be riddled with them. The dome keeps the egg-laying adults out.
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