DIY Hydroponics To make all of these Instructables, download this collection of How To’s as an ebook. Download » DIY Hydroponics gives you full step-by-step instructions for 18 projects to get your indoor harvest growing. Learn how to get started in the field of hydroponics with projects that range from beginner to fully automated watering systems with grow lights. All projects come from Instructables.com, are written by home-growing experts, and contain pictures for each step so you can get growing today! Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. Sarah James Editor, Food & LivingInstructables.com Vegetable Gardening Plans & Designs for an Indoor or Outdoor Garden
Welcome to Toronto Balconies Bloom Manga farming 12 Apr 2010 Tokyo-based artist Koshi Kawachi recently demonstrated his "Manga Farming" technique -- which uses old manga as a growing medium for vegetables -- by cultivating a crop of radish sprouts in an installation at the Matsuzakaya department store in Nagoya. [Link: Koshi Kawachi] A GUIDE TO CHOOSING A RIPE PINEAPPLE ALTHOUGH finding a good melon is generally considered a difficult and chancy proposition, it is child's play compared to the odds one is up against when buying fresh pineapple. That stately leaf-crowned, prickly-skinned fruit with its luxurious, juicy, sweet-sour interior, offers few dependable outward clues to its inner condition, even now at its peak season. Every pineapple found beyond tropical growing areas represents a compromise for two reasons: a pineapple will never become any riper than it was when harvested and a fully ripe pineapple is too fragile to be shipped long distances. Anyone who has eaten freshly picked, fully ripe pineapple in a tropical country will probably not be satisfied with an import even if it is only two or three days old. The premium Hawaiians are transported that way by both Dole and Del Monte, the two largest shippers. Hawaiian and Honduran pineapples are of the variety known as smooth cayennes, as are 95 percent of the pineapples imported.
Build a vertical aquaponic veggie & fish farm for small yards & houses This low-cost vertical aquaponic system can grow leafy greens, herbs and raise fish for a small family year round, and it fits in a 5' by 3' space. Sean Brady, the aquaponics projects coordinator at the Center for Sustainable Aquaponics and Nourish the Planet in Loveland, Colo., showed us how to build a system from scrap he found around the greenhouse. We published a version of this how-to guide at engineeringforchange.org, and it's one of the good ones, so we'd like to share it with Instructables, too. What it is A vertical aquaponic system grows vegetables without soil in columns above a fish tank. The system puts fish waste to work as fertilizer for crops. You do have to replace lost water as needed, power the pump and feed the fish. This is how to build Sean Brady's low-cost vertical aquaponic system This build is for the simple design in the cover photo, and we're including pictures of other, fancier systems built with mostly the same materials to show what's possible.
No dig growing |No dig gardening| www.charlesdowding.co.uk Many gardeners are discovering the benefits of growing healthy food without any soil cultivation. As well as saving the effort of digging, rotovating, 'forking through' or whatever, you will find that weeds eventually grow much less, that vegetables grow just as well, or better, and that soil sticks less to your boots - which may seem a small point but it makes a big difference to the pleasure of being out in the plot. This comment from Steve Jenkins in Lancaster reflects that: I attended Charles' one day course last September and even though I had been allotmenting for many years (or perhaps because) it was an inspiring and transformative experience. Here is a comment from Mark Burge, gardener at Barnsley House in Gloucestershire: "No matter how many photos you see, nothing can compare with the real thing, it was amazing to see your veg 'zinging' with health and vitality and no weeds in sight, although you did manage to find one hiding in amongst your brassicas." WEEDS and MAINTENANCE
Toronto Community Garden Network | Events Workshop And Courses / Events 2012 Up Coming Events 2013 Event's Calender Come and join in! Here are listed free events and workshops. As well, there are some courses that have a fee. It will include events like the Community Garden potluck picnics, Festivals, Community Garden Workshops and Courses like the permaculture course that has a fee. If you have Events, Workshops or Courses that you wish to have posted, please contact mail@tcgn.ca at least two weeks in advance. Events 2014 - About the Treemobile Have you ever wanted fruit trees in your yard, but were unsure about what to plant, or where, or where best to obtain them? The Treemobile is a volunteer-run project of Transition Guelph & Transition Toronto that can provide fruit-bearing trees and shrubs to our members at as low-cost as we can, deliver them to your door, and offer location and plant care consultation (by phone or email), and even do the planting! Watch This Page Announcement for the weekend - Sunday April 27 2014 (the delivery date) April - July 2014 Stay tuned!
10 Killer DIY Garden Hacks | greenUPGRADER - StumbleUpon Gardening is one of the most rewarding home hobbies you can do. It's fun, sustainable and you get healthy, tasty results. A lot of people like the idea of gardening but find excuses like it's too time consuming, it's too expensive, they don't have enough space, blah blah blah. There's no room for excuses when going green, all you need is a little initiative and a little ingenuity to overcome these so called excuses. Here are 10 killer garden hacks that can help you save time, space and money while satisfying your green thumb... 1. Vertical Gutter Garden When Suzanne Forsling moved to Juneau Alaska from Iowa, she found that it was a little bit harder to get her garden to grow. 2. Reclaimed Tire Garden If you have some old tires laying around that you don't know what to do with, you could burn them... if you hate the environment, or you could put them to work as cool looking raised garden beds. 3. DIY Earth Box An Earth Box is more than just a box with soil. 4. Self-Watering Garden 5. 6. 7.
MoSan- Mobile Sanitation Donkey vs. push cart Today we modified the collection service of feces containers. Donkeys need time to get used to a new area. Since we currently don’t have the time, we decided not to go with the donkey again. For the last few days we searched for better ways for collection. On friday we tested the sanitation service done by a donkey cart. Another beautiful day in Karagita ends. Four week pilot of MoSan toilets in Kenya In August I went to Naivasha in Kenya to test five MoSan prototypes with families from the peri-urban and informal settlement Karagita. It was an amazing month! Within these 4 weeks, we got a deep understanding of peoples behaviors, fears and hopes and learned a lot about our service. One thing that surprised me most, was the motivation and the commitment of inhabitants in Karagita. In my last week in Kenya we organized a focus group discussion to bring everyone together and share their experiences among each other. Much love, Mona World Toilet Day 2013 WOW.
DIY Greenwalls Venelin.Petkov said... "Can you post a list of the plants you used and what nutrients are you using (I imagine you are not using pure water, since there are no minerals in the felt substrate). Thanks" Llazar said... "It would be great if could list the plants you used. People have asked me a few times now what plants I used and how I care for them. Each wall builder will need to decide how much light, water, and nutrients they want to provide. Light I have pretty good light in the room but I decided to add some supplemental light from compact fluorescent bulbs. Water I water my wall 4x a day for 10 minutes a day (by drip tube on a timer). Nutrients I added fertilizer to my wall once in the time I have had it (just because a friend gave me some to try). Work with your local plant dealer to determine the plants that are right for your wall. Here's a partial list of plants I have on my wall listed in order of quantity. Philodendron (35%) Pothos (35%) Fern (15%) Nephthytis (10%) Ivy (5%)
Looking for YUF CSA? | Young Urban Farmers | Toronto | Grow Your Own Vegetables and Fruits Are you looking for our partner organization, Cultivate Toronto (formerly Young Urban Farmers CSA)? Please visit www.CultivateToronto.com What’s the difference between YUF and Cultivate Toronto (formerly YUF CSA)? Young Urban Farmers (YUF) is our private service business offering people their own vegetable garden. You get to choose the type of garden as well as which varieties of plants you want to grow. Cultivate Toronto (formerly Young Urban Farmers CSA) is a non-profit community initiative that has a greater education and outreach component.
FLIP/CITY SHANGHAI What happens if you rethink a city by flipping it from the horizontal to the vertical? FLIP/CITY proposes a new urban identity for Shanghai as a model for the development of future cities. By questioning traditional typologies, FLIP/CITY redefines methods of organizing communities by preserving the human scale. The proposal flips the horizontal cityscape to the vertical. Footprints of Shanghai’s existing typologies, only visible by plane, embody the new face of the vertical city. By expressing distinct functions for its citizens, FLIP/CITY relates strongly to the human scale while simultaneously increasing density and green space at the urban scale. By expanding Shanghai up along the vertical plane unused urban voids will be activated. FLIP/CITY is a new urban typology that answers the needs of modern Shanghai, its economy, social structures and ecological plans for the future while embracing Shanghai’s rich history and its citizens. Eye-level view of a cluster WHY? HOW?
Adding the center yogurt cup. With the inner and outer buckets assembled, insert the yogurt cup into the center hole and determine how much, if any, needs to be removed from the bottom of the cup. Using a knife, carefully cut the excess from the bottom of the cup. The bottom of the cup must be cut off in any case. It is only a matter of how much. Re-insert the cup to the hole. The planter is finished. If you plant a tomato in your container, get one of determinate type and either stake it or use a cage for support.