@frankheuij You will want to find out what types of berries you bought. The types are June bearing, ever bearing, and day neutral. Google the terms to see what they mean. Mine are day neutral because that just so happened to be what was in my backyard. These terms usually relate to the outdoor soil based [...]

Without bees or wind, chances are that the strawberry flower won’t get pollinated completely. Worst case nothing will happen or it may get partial pollinated by itself and you get a deformed berry like this. http://our.windowfarms.org/2012/04/15/strawberry-at-over-two-years/ I have been using a Q-tip to pollinate them and I have heard others using small paint brushes. Gently [...]

That does not look that bad anymore, but remember strawberries will need to be pollinated by hand

Could be too much water as strawberries do not like to be wet, but It could just be the shock of being transplanted. I am no expert, but can just share my experience with them. I transplanted a couple into a WF a few years ago from my backyard. I rinsed the dirt and put [...]

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I am always having problems with spider mites. Google that and see if you think that might be it.

@trstrother I don’t work here, but I have seen Destiny writing back to a couple of folks in your same situation. She left her email address here.
http://our.windowfarms.org/2012/03/22/help-from-windowfarms/
I also see that Britta wrote you back as well.
http://our.windowfarms.org/members/trstrother/

PH of 6 should be fine for peppers and most hydroponics. http://our.windowfarms.org/2012/02/10/plants-table/ I have jalepeno and red peppers and that is where I keep the ph so it must be something else. http://our.windowfarms.org/2012/01/21/jalapeno-at-1-year-and-doing-some-pruning/ Go into some more details related to nutrients, type of water, water schedule, etc and maybe someone else has seen this. Having [...]

@gasparalmeria Thanks for the comment. What observaion in the pictures makes you say this? This will help me diagnose this type of problem in the future.

@sylviawoerner
Are you kidding, I think you are AWESOME. Never too old to learn something new. Looking forward to seeing some pictures!

Brian, you were talking about runner beans in another post and I remembered and hunted down this post. I found this dwarf variety. Is this what you had in mind? I might give it a try.
http://parkseed.com/dwarf-bean-hestia/p/05511-PK-P1/

The jalapeno has been really good and I hope that applies to the whole pepper family as I am going to do a mini-red pepper next. It just took a long time to start producing any fruit. http://our.windowfarms.org/2012/01/21/jalapeno-at-1-year-and-doing-some-pruning/ I thought the green beans did really well and I wonder what would have happened if I [...]

The right side of this page has some stuff that you can download. Maybe something here will help if they have nothing else.
http://www.windowfarms.org/story

I can testify that jalapenos work just fine. Just make sure you have the room for them.
http://our.windowfarms.org/2012/01/21/jalapeno-at-1-year-and-doing-some-pruning/

@specialk22tt & @gaiatechnician
Anyone wanting to do any serious research into airlift pumps should take a look at these. Most research is for very large scale stuff and I’m not sure if the equations scale down to our level.
http://our.windowfarms.org/files/2012/03/AICHEAirLiftPump.pdf
http://our.windowfarms.org/files/2012/03/AirLiftPumps.pdf

Tap water can be used, though you may want to check the pH first it should be slightly acidic for most plant purposes (just below 7.0). In terms of fertilizer, there are a wide variety of products available, I would recommend looking into hydroponic suppliers in your area, I like foxfarm all organic/ natural product [...]

Tap water from Lombard, IL (Suburb of Chicago). Water is pumped to the suburbs from Lake Michigan after being treated in Chicago. This first link is the test of my tap water with the API ph tester that I got at a pet store. I also included a test with the rain water I use [...]

What are the caps on the sides of the bottles to be used for and how are they connected to it?