"Water, Plants and Fish?" Plus Much Much More! It is Not Just Another Aquaponic's Gardening Blog! Brought to you by Poetry Writes & Other Stuff from Sinbad the Sailor Man
Sorry this was a fast video after an
ugly day at work. We lost our engine in the Service Truck and that set
the pace for the rest of the day, Towing Fees, New engine cost, and new
Install kits; Hoses, belts, oils, etc. this stuff ain't cheap and it means someone has to work the weekend...
It is
about 5:00 pm here in this video. It turned out to be a nice day weather wise.
Here is some of the stuff that I have so far
gathered together to make our Aquaponics Garden. I am trying to be as green as possible and as cheap as possible Big family big garden or at least the need is there for one and it should justify It's cost and maintenance fees.
This is our first Aquaponics Garden ever. We are trying this out because
the old style garden was just to rough to maintain by ourselves. And with
our busy schedules. We are forever running kids and chasing jobs.
I will do better as things slow down in the coming weeks. Not that we are wanting them to slow down. But it often does.
Well I said I would get a video up and I have. I am still learning to use this Flip Cam and the little camera I got off of eBay.com
I will do better as things slow down and I get some time to sit and think We were rushing the kids around and we were tired as the day was a rush to catch up for time lost because of the blown engine. Excuses yes I know, but they are valid ones.
I am hoping the weather stays nice and drys the ground out. I am not sure if you can see and hear how wet it still is here in IN. but I will work on this Aquaponic System every chance I get these next few weeks.
As we have to get the yard straighten out any way and the boss wants to get the camper set up and the Barn floor poured and the insulation done and tons of other stuff.
I am wanting to focus on the Aquaponics garden and I am hoping as It gets set up and running that the rest of the gang will get a notion or take an interest in It too.
Somebody Come and Play Today! Earn as You Learn, Grow as You Go!
Learn more at bioponica dot org.
This is one of my favorite experiments. There is absolutely no reason
why we cannot add worms to Aquaponic ebb and flow beds. They improve
soil-less medium by loosening up compacted areas and add all sorts of
elements that improve root and plant growth. This is the missing link to
growing heaving feeding plants. May even eliminate need for filtration.
I thought the red wiggles were the better compost worm but I am new to all of this stuff. Donnie/ Sinbad the Sailor Man
Aquaponics is an amazing system that
allows you to integrate a fish-filled pond or tank with grow-beds for
vegetables and herbs.
These very cool systems are a great approach
to sustainability and they can be quite simple to build. Check-out this
project featuring Charlie from Ecolicious showing you how! If you like
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One thing I found handy with this
Greenhouse is as the tomato plants grew taller and taller there was
always a place to tie the plants up to. I finally switched all the
buckets to a double bucket system, you can find more videos here that
shows how to build them.
I plan to tie all the buckets together with
hydroponics hose to be able to have an automatic watering system next
year. I was able to put the greenhouse up in a week, it now has chicken
wire along the bottom with nylon screen on the inside with 1/4 inch
square holes in it.
The screen came from a roll that was left over from
when I insulated my house with cellulose insulation I bought from Regal
Industries. It was used to keep most of the moths out. I closed it in
with plastic for the winter and the broccoli plants are still growing
from last year and it is now 2-17-12.
This is the design that we are going to model with our greenhouse build a 12x30 ft poly tube until the colder weather hits. Donnie/ Sinbad the Sailor Man
So far we have two Holding tanks (1) 1,000 gallon (1) five hundred gallon)and four telephone poles and four different water troughs 2@110 gallons and 2 @50 gallons and a variety of PVC Pluming joints with about one hundred and eighty ft.of four inch pipe.
Several smaller tanks (1)Sump (2) Swirlers (2) Equalizers and (3) Lift Siphons as well as some wood chips for the green house floor and 26 concrete blocks. Plus whatever else I can scrounge up between my Uncle's junk piles and those of his son's. Waiting for the yard to dry up some, because we have had several inches of standing water in It after last weeks deluge of rain fall.
We are going to start by stringing it all out and then do our best to get it all set up, plumbed, and then cycling. As soon as the ground is dry enough to work on. Wish us luck this is going to be all new to us as we get started here in the near future. I will be posting videos from my flip cam as we move through the building process.
Somebody Come and Play Today! Earn as You Learn, Grow as You Go!
Murray
Hallam's followup DVD covers a lot information not covered in his
popular Aquaponics Made Easy DVD. Murray takes us on a journey into the
Ecosystem and how Aquaponics mimics nature.
Grow bed secrets are covered
in depth as well as fish health and how hydroponics farmers are
converting to Aquaponics for profit. Everything from Swirl Filters, Salt
Baths to plant differences in mature and young Aquaponic systems are
covered in depth.
VarioFrank Gapinskius methods such as NFT, DWC and grow bed issues
are shown in this 110 minute DVD that sets the new standard in aquaponic
education.
Available from www.aquaponics.net.au
For many years there has been a general debate about the efficiency of Aquaponic systems. The more traditional supporters of hydroponics
believe that hydroponics is sufficient for producing quality vegetables
and fruits. I'm not debating the fact that hydroponics has served its
purpose well. But as with all agricultural technologies, hydroponics has
its own limitations.
It's obvious Ann Forsthoefel of
"Aqua Annie" is excited by aquaponics, the growing of plants fed by
nutrients from fish, which in turn provide a source of food when they
reach maturity.
"There are so few inputs compared to growing crops in
the soil," she said.
With her gardens, she's constantly building up the
soil that is depleted at the end of each growing season. The beauty of Aquaponics, she said, is that there isn't that constant work because the
fish are giving nutrients to the plants. Read the full post on Cooking
Up a Story: http://cookingupastory.com/aquaponics
