Growduino smart garden. I've been toying with so many ideas of things to automate, but with the long days and an approaching 2-week trip and two young plants at home, I started working in earnest on a garden control project last night.
"Growduino" seemed like the obvious name... This is the simplest possible version-- just an automated watering system, with the nutrient solution pumped up from a reservoir in the tub with a submersible pump. Here's a shot on Flickr: from the description: Deep Sand Beds. By Deirdre Kylie What is a deep sand bed?
A deep sand bed is a sand substrate coupled with bacteria and multicellular organisms working together as a powerful biological filter. KD8ITX. As alluded to in this weeks “Picture of the week”, I have been working on upgrading my Aquaponic system.
This upgrade has been long overdue and I have been talking about doing it now for probably the better part of a year, oh if only for more time! This upgrade comes about because of some sad news however, about two months ago I started having my fish die off, about one every couple weeks would die for no apparent reason.