July 5, 2008
· Filed under Gardening · Tagged beets, hydroponics, indoors, loofah, outdoors, tomatoes
Hydroponics
The original blower I built for the fog hydroponic rig was a simple $7 desk fan that I put inline with the fog stream. It did a good job for a time, but it was destined to fail from the moment it was submerged in supersaturated air.
When it eventually did fail, there was rust on the brushes and every part of it looked like unhealthy electronics. When I got around to replacing it, most of my strawberries had died, but my loofah plants hadn’t yet sprouted so there is still hope for them.
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June 12, 2008
· Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged aeroponics, hydroponics, indoors
Fog hydroponics shopping list
I’ve recently completed the second phase of my ultrasonic fogger based hydroponic rig. Here are the rough outlines of what I did along with some pictures of the rig.
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May 27, 2008
· Filed under Gardening · Tagged garden, grass, hydroponics, indoors, mower, outdoors, weeds
For the past week, I’ve been out of town in Chicago. In the meantime, my wife watered the indoor garden, had the mower repaired, and (probably) continued to throw her sandwich crusts in the front yard to attract crows (we’re not trailer, I swear).
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May 4, 2008
· Filed under Gardening · Tagged garden, hydroponics, outdoors, tomatoes, upside-down
Garden
Saturday brought us some really lame weekend weather: rainy and 50s. Today was sunny and perhaps as high as the 70s. It was a perfect day to send my little green babies out into a world full of cats and raccoons and birds who would like nothing more than to eat them all up right now.
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April 30, 2008
· Filed under Gardening · Tagged hydroponics, indoors, sprouts
Sprouts
It’s official: At least one of every type of plant has broken the surface, including the two season old watermelon variety and the cantaloupe. The lettuce sprouts have grown too tall for their growing box lid and some of the soy beans are touching their ceiling.
Hydroponics
I just purchased a some fancy hydroponics fertilizer from a local sun shop. The strawberry buds have begun to bloom and the leaves are looking very healthy. I am considering expanding the hydroponics rig when all of the other plants have been moved out into the garden. I’d move the fogger into a central canister and fabricate a small forced air system to pump the fog through two or more growing trays in parallel.
April 28, 2008
· Filed under Gardening · Tagged hydroponics, indoors, photos, sprouts
April 27, 2008
· Filed under Gardening · Tagged hydroponics, indoors, sprouts
Hydroponics
Today I needed a little pick-me-up so I decided to treat myself to a creative project. When I proposed the idea of making a hydroponics rig some time ago, Emily thought it would be a good idea. Tonight I went out and built that rig:
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