Erik “Gronkh” Range is one of the most successful streamers on the German Twitch. Off-camera, the 46-year-old has a special hobby besides gaming: he is creating a vegetable garden in his basement.
Normally, Erik “Gronkh” Range mainly shows his viewers gameplay on Twitch or chats with them in “Just Chatting”. Recently, however, he took his viewers on a spontaneous room tour in a stream – to the basement.
Gronkh plays Minecraft in the basement
What can be seen in Gronkh’s basement? Mainly cucumbers. The Twitch streamer already reported in August that he had planted a few cucumbers as a test. Since then, there have been frequent short updates from Gronkh’s vegetable section.
However, anyone thinking of an expansive garden with neatly laid out beds and picturing Gronkh gardening with a sun hat is mistaken. Instead, the Twitch streamer has created a sort of vegetable plantation in the basement, with box-shaped containers sprouting cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers.
A YouTube video that appeared on November 5, 2023, on the “Best of Gronkh” channel summarizes the gardening updates in a concise video.
How is it received? Very well. In the comments on YouTube, some viewers express their enthusiasm: they write that they could watch him for hours or request whole videos just on the topic of gardening.
Others are reminded of the well-known Minecraft, with which Gronkh rose to fame on YouTube. One viewer comments that one can tell how much he loves the game when he talks about cucumbers and irrigation systems.
Indeed, the canisters in their rows vaguely resemble Minecraft blocks. Additionally, automated farms have always been a popular topic in the survival sandbox.
One fan writes: “I wonder when the water drainage will come – so that the harvested cucumbers can be sorted directly into the boxes next door via monster trap & automated filter system…” We have compiled a few particularly nice reactions for you here:
“Normal” people: Plants grow in the garden with sunlight
Erik: Plants grow with artificial light and optimized nutrient solutions
Next Step: autonomous harvesting and processing machines
The boy is setting up a self-sufficiency bunker in the basement and will never have to leave it again. The only communication with the outside world is the stream.
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Schnabi72 is already thinking one step ahead: “Other influencers bring out energy drinks or something, Gronkh will sell pickled cucumbers. I see it coming.”
Also, derEngelderNacht looks into the future: “Eventually, Gronkh will show us his chickens, cows, and sheep. And also his basement grain field.” Overall, everyone seems to be happy to watch their streamer do something that apparently brings him so much joy.
What is all this for? Gronkh explains that he has no big plans for the vegetable. For him, it’s primarily a “proof of concept”. He wants to learn how it all works. This raises the question among some viewers of what the Twitch streamer is actually practicing for.
They joke that the Twitch streamer could soon be running a marijuana plantation in the basement. Gronkh, however, seems content for now to be able to snack on some self-grown cucumbers during the stream.
At least he has found a hobby to fall back on when he is “too old to play”: Twitch: Gronkh has clear words for critics who claim: “You are too old to play”
