Sunday, January 23, 2011

Aquaponics Improving













The system has been functional for nearly 6 months now. Although pH is still high, everything seems to be growing nicely.
We have taken out a bunch of lettuce that went to seed, and now freed up some of the space that was used by some gourds. That should give us some more nutrients for the existing plants. One of the tomatoes that looked diseased and that never managed to give fruit suddenly started producing - and pests seem to be well under control. I'm not sure whether this is due to the fact that we don't have much that they like there or that there's so much other green stuff around at this time of year that they have no need to prey on the aquaponics, we'll see as summer draws nearer.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Monday, November 22, 2010

New Videos

After a long break without news, we have two short videos showing the current setup. We faced many different problems, the most important being a faulty pump. Now, after installing a submersible pump the problems have pretty much ceased.
We are attacked by viruses and bugs, and they decimated our spinach, and cucumber plants.
The lettuces and cucumbers seem to be doing well. We have harvested a few cucumbers and lots of lettuce so far, as well as a few little green chillies.
The fish are growing but we lost a couple of big ones due to a full day power cut after the near cyclone.



Wednesday, September 1, 2010