The Nano Garden Lets You Grow Veggies Right in Your Kitchen Whether we're scouring the web for funky flower pots or turning old floppy disks into whimsical homes for herbs and succulents, we love all forms of creative gardening. Cities far and wide have started embracing rooftop gardens for bringing fresh local veggies in the spring, summer and fall to city folks. Fire escapes have become perfect spots for tomato plants, and windows have become increasingly jam-packed with basil, rosemary, mint, and sage. But, what about city dwellers and suburbanites who don't have access to a rooftop garden or plant-friendly fire escape? Or perhaps the right dose of rainwater and sunshine just doesn't make it to your particular locale? The Kitchen Nano Garden by Hyundai is a super cool concept for growing a vegetable garden right in your kitchen, without help from sun or rain. We anxiously await the next phase of this awesome concept, and would love to try harvesting an indoor vegetable garden at Brit HQ!
Welcome to Bonsai Clubs International A Guide to Growing Bonsai and Making Bonsai - Bonsai Basics Desert Blooming Department: Back Yard Garden Pools! Graphic shows the Garden Pool’s model. / Courtesy Garden Pool Instead of water wings and inner tubes, Dennis and Danielle McClung’s backyard pool in Mesa, Arizona, is filled with tomato plants, grape vines and wheat. There’s a chicken coop and a fish pond, and the food that comes out of the pool, from tilapia to tomatoes, feeds the McClung family of five. It’s a system that took a few frustrating failures to perfect, but now the McClungs hope to take swimming-pool farming international. When the McClungs bought the foreclosed home in 2009, the backyard was a suburban wasteland with a cracked, concrete, in-ground pool. The McClungs has some farming and building experience — Dennis worked on a dairy farm and at Home Depot, and Danielle grew up on small farm in Ohio — and they’d been trying to become as self-sufficient as possible. The McClungs get most of their food out of the pool (they’ll take their kids out for pizza occasionally) and they’re trying to share the wealth.
Brussel's Bonsai Nursery, Bonsai Trees and Accessories On this page we will cover some of the basics of caring for a bonsai, as well as some of the mistakes that beginners frequently make. If you think we have missed something, drop us a line. Where do I put it? Pines and junipers go in full sun, while deciduous trees, such as maples and elms, will do well in a spot that gets some shade from late afternoon sun. How often do I water it? In general, you should water your tree when the top of the soil is dry. How do I train my bonsai? A bonsai is not, in many cases, simply a dwarf form of a tree. Good Trees for Beginners Good outdoor (temperate climate) trees for beginners include Green Mound juniper, Trident maple and Chinese elm. Indoor or Outdoor? Some people mistakenly believe that all bonsai can be kept indoors indefinitely. Overwintering Indoor bonsai are tropical species that must be keep inside when the weather outside is cold. Bald Cypress - Taxodium distichum The bald cypress prefers very wet, swampy soils. Family: Taxodiaceae
How to Plant an Avocado Tree Some growers find that placing the seed in water to sprout it risks producing a long, leggy tree that fails to fruit. In this case, it is better to place the seed in the ground without soaking first. 1Obtain a good quality avocado fruit. Cut the fruit flesh away from the seed. Sheet Matala Blue High Density Blue Matala The Blue Matala® filter media will filter out a much smaller particle and yet still maintain good flow distribution. In larger systems all four types can be used in sequence to essentially remove all solids. Matala filter media is a progressive filter Material that is self supporting and multifunctional. Used for prefiltering, mechanical filter media, biological filtration, spawning mat, plant protection, and as a support for other filter medias. Blue Matala is available in full sheets, 48" x 39" x 1.5" or half sheets, 24" x 39" x 1.5". ALL FILTER MEDIA SALES ARE FINAL.
Everything bonsai, trees, supplies, care, instruction, pictures, When To Prune An Avocado Bonsai - The Bonsai Series - PART II | Ep 67 Everyone (Re)invents Aquaponics What follows is likely one of the most useful posts I've written. It's something I wish I'd known before I started down this road. However, I confess some conflict about posting it because it's potentially self-serving, given that a lot of people recently downloaded my plans. Brilliant and interesting early-adopters, aquapons love nothing more than to innovate new paradigms and tear down sacred cows. Also, it’s kind-of a problem. The trouble comes when people like us try and do things by the book, someone-else’s way. You Won’t Believe What I Found in my Barn! I get a lot of emails and read a lot of forum posts. I’m so excited–I just learned about aquaponics and found your blog. When I see this kind of thing, I get both jazzed and sad at the same time, because–while I relate to the excitement of stumbling across this awesome hobby–I know all too well the road this person is starting down. It was pure hubris. I should have built it exactly the way that Travis intended. Some Plans But not yet.
BonsaiSite.com - Bonsai as an art and horticultural practice. A Beginner's First Bonsai by Brent Walston Introduction Don't 'buy a bonsai'. That is a poor way to begin this fascinating hobby and usually doomed to failure. One learns the basics of bonsai best by creating them, even your first one. If this seems daunting, well, it is. Begin right away. Take this nursery plant and style the upper portion of the plant by pruning. One of the first things you will notice is that all of them have a definite trunk line. I recommend that you get a shrubby plant first; it will give you more to do from the very beginning. After you take your plant home you can begin the job of revealing the trunk line by removing competing trunks and branches, but before you do, give some thought as to which branches you will want to keep. Continue to refine your plant by pinching back the new foliage to force more growth closer to the trunk and to make it denser and more compact. Of course everyone wants bonsai inside, preferably on their coffee table, but bonsai is basically an outdoor activity.
Phosphorus in Aquaponics - Bright Agrotech Phosphorus in Aquaponics Phosphorus is one of the primary plant nutrients- the “P” in NPK ratings. It is often overlooked in aquaponic systems simply because it is seldom truly deficient. Phosphorus is very soluble, but also very sought after in the world of plants and algae. The cause of many algae blooms (see: eutrophication), is phosphorus from industrial agriculture that has washed from cropland into rivers and streams, and eventually the ocean. While there is a lot of phosphorus in circulation in nature, natural sources for agriculture are limited. oil” at length, most people are unaware that phosphorus in the form of rock phosphate (the primary source of phosphorus for industrial agriculture) is rapidly being consumed. Because phosphorus is very soluble, and rapidly consumed by algae, it is often present in systems as soluble phosphate PO4-3 ions as well as in organic forms. So, I recommend that fruiting and vegetative crops are kept separate and growing in different systems.