Vanilla Vine’s History.

Gardening starts with caring.

Vanilla vine festooned with pods after 2022’s pollination, about 100, 8 months till harvest. Picture by John Rose.

Vanilla vine, April 2020 before LED upgrades. Planted late 2018. You can see aerial roots. Picture by John Rose.

Beginning

I’m an old engineer,
Methodical thinking
ingrained into
Stoic personality,
Does not exclude
emotions nor
wonder of
discovery.

2018 planted little
vanilla vine after
installing first
LED systems,
Based on
needing something
really exotic to
satisfy curiosity.

Knowledgeable
systems engineer,
Ignorant gardener,
Applied engineering
systems thinking to
gardening tasks,
Discovered Gaia.

Issues with Lights.

LED garden’s
strawberries from
seeds grew
plenty of leaves
but few flowers,
Decided to
plant out in
son’s garden,
Strawberries…