Friday, July 6, 2012
Day 2 of the excitment...
I started to build the wicking bed that I will grow the root vegetables in. A wicking bed holds the water under the soil and allows the soil to pull out the exact amount it needs to be saturated. I have already installed the pipe with holes drilled to the bottom and the gravel that is covering it. I cut a shade cloth like material and covered the gravel and place a layer of soil on top of that. Need to put on a few more inches of soil and it will be ready for some beets and carrots!.
The corn is coming along very quickly. The lettuce and cabbage came out the ground today also.
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Aquaponics tanks rafts floating in a relatively deep aquaculture basin in troughs. Raft tanks can be constructed to be quite large, and enable seedlings to be transplanted at one end of the aquaponics tank while fully grown plants are harvested at the other, thus ensuring optimal floor space usage.
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