DIY Water Projects -- Catching it, saving it, treating i, ... HS943/HS184: Building a Floating Hydroponic Garden. Michael Sweat, Richard Tyson, and Robert Hochmuth2 The Aztecs amazed the Spanish conquistadors with their floating gardens, and now 500 years later you can impress your friends and neighbors with yours. A floating hydroponic garden is easy to build and can provide a tremendous amount of nutritious vegetables for home use, and best of all, hydroponic systems avoid many pest problems commonly associated with the soil. This simple guide will show you how to build your own floating hydroponic garden using material locally available at a cost of about $50.00 (Figure 1). Figure 1. Lettuce in floating garden system. [Click thumbnail to enlarge.] Construction Steps Build a rectangular frame using 2-by-6-inch or 2-by-8-inch treated lumber.
Figure 2. Nutrients needed for floating garden. Light rainfall will have little effect on the water garden; only extensive flooding would require fertilizer adjustment based on the amount of water added by rainfall. Figure 3. Lettuce transplant in net pot. Figure 4. Hydroponic gardening for beginners - Greentrees Hydroponics. Kids World - Plant Nutrition. Healthy Hydroponics. PermaCulture Design Course. Greywater Ecuador La lagrima purificadora. La lagrima purificadora This greywater treatment system was built in Ecuador, using a grease trapW as the first stage, followed by a gravel bed with native plants.
[edit] Organizational background As a member of la Red de Guardianes de Semillas (the Seed Savers' Network), a grassroots Ecuadoran organization dedicated to the preservation of the traditional seed and the culture that it sustains, the Centro Orgánico Finca Sarita serves as a seed saving center for coastal Ecuador as well as an educational model in sustainable farming and ancestral living in its region. [edit] Greywater filtration system Along the lines of serving as a sustainable model within their community and region, coordinators of Finca Sarita were looking for a low-cost, model greywater filtration system built from local materials that could be easily maintained, repaired, and mimicked. [edit] What’s in a name?
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