Do you know where the nearest aquarium shop is?
Aquaponics:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...=aquaponic adjective; a plant growing technology dependent on the naturally occurring symbiotic relationship between fish and plants, living and growing, in a water circulating soilless sytem contained within a controled environment/facility.
Back in December/Early January I started looking for a new hobby. I wanted to try aquaponics, but I had one problem - the windows in my house don’t offer any sun! I also live just south of Winterfell, so any sunlight that did manage to get in would be limited to a couple hours a day, at best. I finally stumbled across a solution, and after a spending a couple hundred bucks, I have a sweet system set up with dozens of plants growing and some scenery that keeps my house a little more lively.
Hydroponics:
Any plant grown without the use of soil in nutrient rich conditions.
I decided when it came to hydroponics I would either go big or go home. I went all in and bought the Aerogarden LED Extra with the salad greens kit for $200 or so. I spent all of 5 minutes assembling it, putting it where I wanted in the house, filling the tank with water, adding nutrients and the seed packs, plugged it in, and voila! It was ready to go. It took about 3 weeks to get the plants to where I feel comfortable cutting them back consistently, and ever since it’s been supplying me with 3-4 salads a week ($10USD or so). About once a week I add water and nutrients to the system. The lights are automated, and alerts me to when I need to add water or nutrients to the system. It also has manual settings to turn it on and off whenever you want. It’s that easy.
I’m pretty lazy when it comes to doing stuff around the house, so it’s the perfect system for me. I’ve thought about getting another one and having a salad every day that I grew myself. There are some other systems you can buy and homemade systems you can set up yourself. The Aerogarden has 7 pots of lettuce growing. As it’s not exposed to wind like it would naturally be, the lettuce is amazingly soft and practically melts in my mouth. Apparently if you like your lettuce crunchy you can set up a small fan next to your garden and toughen it up.
The LED growlight attached to the Aerogarden allowed me to buy my first aquaponics tank. I got an Aquafarm for $60 at a petstore, grabbed a Betta fish with a couple snails and started growing wheat grass to test it out (I actually went a little overboard and still have too much wheat grass…) The light from the Aerogarden allowed me to grow the plants above the tank, and it worked out pretty damn well. Gives my home office some extra light and something pretty to look at. The Aquafarm came with everything I needed to get started and it got me totally hooked. It has five pots, which right now are growing a combination of wheat grass, arugula, and kale. I lost one Betta cycling the tank, but now I have a beautiful fucking Crowntail Betta swimming around helping my plants grow.
Having the Aquafarm inspired me to go shopping, and led to me setting up a 20 gallon aquaponics tank (the Aquafarm is only 3 gallons) which has begun supplying me with more kale, arugula, basil, parsley, microgreens, and cilantro than I know what to do with. Now that I have an idea of what I’m doing, I can walk you through the steps to set up your own. Easy organic food you grow yourself while pimpin’ out your place and making it look badass.
Buy your own Aquafarm here: https://www.backtotheroots.com/shop/aquafarm
Post a couple pics of it on Facebook and watch people start to make excuses to come over...
Aquaponics:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...=aquaponic adjective; a plant growing technology dependent on the naturally occurring symbiotic relationship between fish and plants, living and growing, in a water circulating soilless sytem contained within a controled environment/facility.
Back in December/Early January I started looking for a new hobby. I wanted to try aquaponics, but I had one problem - the windows in my house don’t offer any sun! I also live just south of Winterfell, so any sunlight that did manage to get in would be limited to a couple hours a day, at best. I finally stumbled across a solution, and after a spending a couple hundred bucks, I have a sweet system set up with dozens of plants growing and some scenery that keeps my house a little more lively.
Hydroponics:
Any plant grown without the use of soil in nutrient rich conditions.
I decided when it came to hydroponics I would either go big or go home. I went all in and bought the Aerogarden LED Extra with the salad greens kit for $200 or so. I spent all of 5 minutes assembling it, putting it where I wanted in the house, filling the tank with water, adding nutrients and the seed packs, plugged it in, and voila! It was ready to go. It took about 3 weeks to get the plants to where I feel comfortable cutting them back consistently, and ever since it’s been supplying me with 3-4 salads a week ($10USD or so). About once a week I add water and nutrients to the system. The lights are automated, and alerts me to when I need to add water or nutrients to the system. It also has manual settings to turn it on and off whenever you want. It’s that easy.
I’m pretty lazy when it comes to doing stuff around the house, so it’s the perfect system for me. I’ve thought about getting another one and having a salad every day that I grew myself. There are some other systems you can buy and homemade systems you can set up yourself. The Aerogarden has 7 pots of lettuce growing. As it’s not exposed to wind like it would naturally be, the lettuce is amazingly soft and practically melts in my mouth. Apparently if you like your lettuce crunchy you can set up a small fan next to your garden and toughen it up.
The LED growlight attached to the Aerogarden allowed me to buy my first aquaponics tank. I got an Aquafarm for $60 at a petstore, grabbed a Betta fish with a couple snails and started growing wheat grass to test it out (I actually went a little overboard and still have too much wheat grass…) The light from the Aerogarden allowed me to grow the plants above the tank, and it worked out pretty damn well. Gives my home office some extra light and something pretty to look at. The Aquafarm came with everything I needed to get started and it got me totally hooked. It has five pots, which right now are growing a combination of wheat grass, arugula, and kale. I lost one Betta cycling the tank, but now I have a beautiful fucking Crowntail Betta swimming around helping my plants grow.
Having the Aquafarm inspired me to go shopping, and led to me setting up a 20 gallon aquaponics tank (the Aquafarm is only 3 gallons) which has begun supplying me with more kale, arugula, basil, parsley, microgreens, and cilantro than I know what to do with. Now that I have an idea of what I’m doing, I can walk you through the steps to set up your own. Easy organic food you grow yourself while pimpin’ out your place and making it look badass.
Buy your own Aquafarm here: https://www.backtotheroots.com/shop/aquafarm
Post a couple pics of it on Facebook and watch people start to make excuses to come over...
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