The Big Daddy organic CoCo Gro Bag offers a stylish way to “get growing.” Just add water and mix to promote growth for vegetables, herbs, fruit, and more. It is ideal for hydroponics systems. The mix expands to 0.5 cubic feet once watered. Add the Plant!t mix into your growing . . . → Read More: The Big Daddy organic CoCo Gro Bag
Come On everyone, lets help get this Project to it’s stretch goal! Doesn’t Re-Usable Media for planting lettuce in raft beds sound Awesome???? I think so and I would love to see this project reach the $10,000 goal. Only about a day left to make it.
At the Farm the New Media bed Aquaponics system is starting to take shape.
So the new Aquaponics system is starting to take shape. Eventually it will have a 1000 gallon aquaculture tank (with probably 900 gallons of water) for the fish. Currently hooked up is a 410 gallon tank as sump tank and 6, . . . → Read More: Starting on the Media bed Aquaponics system
So I’m testing out a new grow media. Let me call it Aquagrowlite for now. Anyway, it is a light weight media That I have been testing out for only a short time now, However, washing a truck load of it is faster than washing a truck load of river rock of the same size . . . → Read More: Aquagrowlite
So we have removed 5 grow beds. The Big system and tower system are tied together to utilize the filtration in the towers. There is still quite a bit of gravel online but we are working hard to remove the shells and get the pH/water chemistry into better order. So after two years of heavy . . . → Read More: Muck not too bad
This is just a very quick video post to demonstrate how easy it is to see the difference between media that will keep your pH too high and media that will probably work for Aquaponics.
Tools needed; A glass or clear plastic container Some Vinegar (white or distilled vinegar will be easiest to see through) . . . → Read More: Test your gravel before you buy