A Hydroponics Bay Construction

A few weeks ago my girlfriend brought over a baby Strawberry plant as a gift. It was still blooming, and I thought "awe, ain't that cute?!"
Specific directions were given to me to water it regularly and give it fertilizer every 3 to 4 days.

What did I do?
I stuck it on the window sill, water it every morning, and haven't even thought about giving it fertilizer.

I now have one Strawberry that is growing in size quite nicely and is even starting to turn red. There's 4 other smaller Strawberries starting to form, but they're way behind.

This kind of got me thinking about starting to grow my own plants from seeds for fun. I mean, I had already kind of harvested some vigilante seeds from a few Serrano Chili pods, as well as from some Thai Chili pods.

That was my project tonight. I went to Zellers and bought a 8x2 Peat planter greenhouse as well as a larger planter to transplant my Strawberry plant into. I also got 100 styrofoam cups as well, but that's for later use. Then I got some all-purpose soil and went at it.

First I transplanted my Strawberry plant into the bigger planter, then I filled the original smaller planter with soil, then divvied up the remainder of the soil into the peat planters. I decided to divide the planter in half so that one side was all Thai Chilis while the other side was all Serrano Chilis. I then made a small hole with my pinky finger in each planter and put two of each respective seed into each planter, covered them up, watered them a bit, and set on the window sill. I then labeled each side so that I know which ones are which.

The result is this:



The far left is the original planter the Strawberry plant came in.
The middle is the 8x2 Peat planter with Thai on the left and Serrano on the right.
The far right is the Strawberry plant in the new/bigger planter.

Closeup of the Strawberry plant:



Now, since I used up all of my soil, I couldn't do anything with the styrofoam cups.
However, I am planning on going to Zellers sometime really soon to get some more, and possibly some other seeds for herbs and vegetables (like Parsley, Oregano, Basil, Beans, Peas, etc) to try creating my own little indoor garden.