After a slow and demoralizing start, things are finally starting to come together in our aquaponic beds. We're ready for some pay-off after digging out the pond, investing in the liner, buying the clay balls and working to set it all up. Favorite thing about aquaponics: no weeding required.
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Showing posts with label aquaponics. Show all posts
Friday, April 6, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Welcome to our greenhouse!
Isn't it wonderful? Abe made it. The doors were salvaged from a neighborhood where the HOA made everyone take out their perfectly adequate and expensive double-pane french doors to replace them with identical new ones.
A friend found the water tanks (there are actually two, one on each side) in the "free" section on Craigslist. Our aquaponics bins are cheap under-the-bed storage containers, and we used as much scrap wood as we could find.
I planned to do a whole series on our greenhouse construction during the winter, since during cold months there isn't really much going on around here . Instead I got consumptive pneumonia multiple colds and sinus infections and wrote nothing at all.
But there's always hope for the spring!
Things are growing in our greenhouse!
Things like collard greens, swiss chard... and Dale.
Dale is a toad, and I hope he likes to eat mosquitos. The pond water for our aquaponics system plus the warm climate of the greenhouse is heaven for those suckers.
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