August 17, 2010 in Help the project by testing this, posts with pitcures!, questions by Chad
Here is an article from the NYT about regular upside done gardening: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/garden/20tomato.html.
Has anyone considered trying something like it?
I feel like this would be an even more efficient use of space, you could grow fruiting plants out of the bottom and herbs out of the top of any bucket or bottle.
The main problem that people [...]
August 17, 2010 in Completed Window Farms, Getting Started, posts with pitcures! by Meg Stout
Video of child’s aquaponic windowfarm
Tags: air pump, airlift, aquaponics, drip, goldfish, materials list, R&D-I-Y, strawberries, windowfarm
August 12, 2010 in Completed Window Farms, Education, Getting Started, Nutrients, Plants, Projects in Process, Starting Seeds, environmental impact, posts with pitcures! by holly johnson
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 [...]
August 9, 2010 in Completed Window Farms, Plants, posts with pitcures! by samenrahmen
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 [...]
Tags: flowering, lettuce, peppers
August 1, 2010 in Completed Window Farms, posts with pitcures! by Tony
Here we are at 5 months since building my window farm and want to give a general update. Strawberries are growing well and have been flowering and fruiting. The plants are growing in rockwell cubes and lately I have the airpump timer running three times a day for about 3hours at a time. The rockwool holds [...]
Tags: bugs, root, strawberries
July 22, 2010 in Completed Window Farms, Education, Projects in Process, Seeking Advice, posts with pitcures!, questions by Rama Dennett
I have a very nice window farm. I built it with two holes on either side of the bottle to allow 2 plants to grow out each side. This has been working very well and my plants are taking over my window, yay! As I was trimming some dead leaves I started wondering, why have holes [...]
July 11, 2010 in Completed Window Farms, Plants, posts with pitcures! by samenrahmen
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
Tags: blossom, gotu kola
June 30, 2010 in Getting Started, Materials and Resources, Projects in Process, posts with pitcures! by Adrian Thornton
I recorded a brief video to document my experiment with an airlift system.
If the video doesn’t show up (the preview certainly isn’t showing it), then you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4xkUsAlM_0
Tags: air lift, aquaponics, aquarium
June 26, 2010 in Completed Window Farms, posts with pitcures! by Rama Dennett
Check out our video to see our farm!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf2jW05TEwU
Tags: window farm video
