diy aquaponics basement | New Blog

15.23 in 2, Aquaponics, blog, bottle, garden, hanging, new, part, wall

diy aquaponics basement

A great new blog on building a shipping container home!

http://homeinabox.blogspot.com/

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diy biofilter aquaponics | Balcony Garden Update

23.43 in Aquaponics, balcony, bottle, garden, hanging, update, wall

diy biofilter aquaponics

It was a pretty good summer overall, lots of Tomatoes, but they dried up and stop producing, Im not sure if they were attacked as the plants are well watered, but they have now started growing again.
I dont know what the deal is with my strawberries I had an amazing container full green and flowers but not one strawberry, I wonder if the pollination process isnt happening so high up in a city center, maybe i need a bee hive LOL!
anyway plenty of Spring onions herbs ect and some nice peppers growing to.
Im going to start getting ready for autumn winter crops with broccoli and bok choy.

One thing Im happy with is the containers, the ones with water reservoir in bottom , and I have a drip line all way round from my water barrel and mulch as top layer, it definably is more efficient for water and the plants get what they need even in the hot and windy summer.

The other great thing is I now can replenish my own soil with a mixture of worm soil and the Chook soil, it should remain nutrient rich.
one new container i filled with soil from compost has actually produced loads of tomato plants, must have been from fallen fruit.

peppers

more Peppers

 
Strawberry plants

Rouge tomatoes amongst strawberries

Onions, dead Tomato and Raspberry plant

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diy aquaponics cost | Aquaponics Update

22.16 in Aquaponics, bottles, from, green, plastic, recycled, update, wall

diy aquaponics cost

I did some work on setting up my aquaponics set up! after watching the DVD i learnt the basics, I did break one rule of having a too small set up, but my experiment is for small spaces so will go forward and see what happens.

My 2 grow beds above the fish tank.
i used two plastic under bed storage containers from a KMart, they were $16 each and are 35Lts, the fish tank is a 120 Lts plastic storage bin cost about $22

I built a wood frame around the fish tank to support the grow beds, including a chook (Chicken) coop.

the wood was from an Ikea futon bed that was recycled.

I driled a 1" hole in bottom of grow bed to add a bell syphon, to flood and drain system, I wanted to see if I could create my own version using plastic bottles, I will update latter once the silicon seal is set.

Pumps are very expensive and i wanted to keep the cost low so I went for a cheap filter /pump combo that sprinkles water on surface and filters, this was $17.85 from Hong Kong on ebay!

I also picked up a small aquarium pump at the garden center for $15

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diy budget aquaponics simplified plumbing design | Hanging Bottle Wall Garden Part 2

16.04 in 2, Aquaponics, bottle, card, credit, garden, hanging, multi, part, tool, wall

diy budget aquaponics simplified plumbing design

Part 2 of my Hanging Bottle Wall Garden,

video of the whole system working and full with 27 strawberry plants.

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diy betta aquaponics | Hanging Bottle Wall Garden

12.18 in Aquaponics, bottle, can, garden, hanging, heater, solar, wall

diy betta aquaponics

My new Design
Hanging Bottle Wall Garden




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diy countertop aquaponics | Green Wall from plastic recycled bottles

06.21 in Aquaponics, back, bottles, craft, from, goes, green, guttergrowbed, lane, plastic, recycled, set, wall

diy countertop aquaponics

My Project was to create a Green wall / living wall using recycled plastic water bottles, I wanted to use as many waste product parts as possible.

                                        

I started with drilling a 1" hole in bottom of bottles and 2 x 2 1/4 " holes in sides, then joined them together end to end.

I realized that the only way water would travel all way threw would flood the bottle to half way making it to wet to grow so used a plastic drip pie cut in lengths and L corner joints to complete the loop, I then made lots of drip holes in each growing area for water to leak threw.

I built a wooden frame to fit snug to the size of bottles and brackets on back to support them ( This was a mistake, next time ill use something like peg board to give more support)

I used zip ties to attach each neck of bottle to back support straps

I sprayed  everything Matt black to make it look nice.

sprayed back too

then i filled with a light peat mix and vermiculite growing compound ( the weight made all the bottles sag a great deal)

finely added as many green house plants ferns etc as i could get, I really didnt get enough to make it fully covered but it still looked cool!

I them drilled small hole in top and added a tube to top pipe for watering, the last bottle was left uncut as a collection chamber, i originally intended to attach a solar water pump to the collection chamber to re-pump to top again but never completed it!

This is the Green wall several months latter!

The main problem was watering! the water would pass threw the pipe too quickly and not allow enough to soak threw drip holes, My next one I will cure this by adding a piece of sponge in the tube at every joint to slow the water transfer process down, You can also see the support wasnt adequate and the weight crushed it all down. The angle of the bottles holes should have been more upright too!

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