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Hi all,
Haven’t tried these windowfarms yet but I’ve been reading about hydroponics for years.  I’d like to give this a shot, except I have very little light in my apt.  My windows face East and there’s a giant building 6 feet outside my door, so I get about 2.5 hours of direct sunlight in the [...]

I decided this time around to build an aquaponic window farm. I wanted to put my reservoir to good use, and also had an extra fish tank around. I decided to use the Nutrient Film Technique (NFT) river system (FYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrient_film_technique) to accomplish this. This system has so many advantages! One pump (blue hose) pumps [...]

This supposedly is a Miniature Yellow Bell pepper.

Photos show it to be a compact plant with short internodes and a lot of small, dark green leaves.
What a nice addition, and it probably won’t get too large in a WF anyway …
This plant is now 7,5 weeks old, and it’s a whopping 75cm high.
It has few [...]

I’m clawing my way back from yet another setback, having unplugged my pump and then forgotten to plug it in again …
Nice to see that at least some of my plants are making themselves comfortable:

Gotu Kola in bloom

New plants in the farm!
So we had a little problem.  Our strawberries died.  I’m not sure what happened, but we could never make them happy.  So after changing out the old plants with new ones and doing some changes, everything is growing well.   We are growing mint, peppers, and nasturtiums.  
Check out our last posting that [...]

Hello Windowfarms.org.
I recently built my own little system after stumbling upon your website. I found the instructions fairly easy. Sourcing the materials was easy as well.
I went a bit crazy and decided to do some peppers and tomatoes. Pollinating the tomatoes has been a little bit of an issue, but it’s coming along.
The rate of [...]

Garlic seemed like a bit of a challenge, and it sure provides some food for thought.
The garlic clove I posted about earlier simply stopped growing when its internal nutrient suply ran out, but still had a little surprise in store:

The clove had sat a little too deep in the rockwool, it shriveled, and when I [...]

Hello-
My widow farm is built and water seems to be flowing well. I have a 4 column, 3 row system. I am having a hard time keeping plants alive however. I started out with plants from soil and after transplanting they seemed ok. Day 3 I had a system failure and they [...]

Yep, you read that right, FREE! 
So, what’s the steal? Basically, I came up with a simple and effective way to provide nutrients to my plants.  How?  WORM POOP!  Ya, sounds gross I know, but it’s truly amazing, fully organic, and best of all FREE.
All you need is a net cup, a coffee filter, [...]

Its been a week, and so far, all of my transplanted plants are alive, and my seedlings are showing signs of growth. I had one column dry out a bit too much one evening, and came very close to losing a lettuce plant. I used my seedstarter house see if i could revive it. 8 [...]