‘According to Rich’ Archives
FALL JUST FELL..!
Have you ever had an experiment that was set to run for several months, but early in the project you became aware that there were parts of the setup that needed to be corrected for the experiment to run more efficiently and be more productive? You could hardly wait to tear it apart correct the deficiencies and start over? “Outdoor Garden [...]
THE NEVER ENDING STORY..!
The combination of Vermiponics with Aquaponics test run produced very satisfactory results. It wasn’t without challenges soon into the trial bucket garden some problems became evident. Challenge #1: I had jumped the gun on planting prior to setting up the water distribution system. It seemed like other more important things kept getting [...]
AND THE SAGA CONTINUES
The backyard garden is well into its summer growing season, the plants are going crazy, making me wish I had planted bush squash and beans instead of vines. And more compact growing tomatoes. With 3-4 months of grow time left I won’t even be able to navigate the area for the overgrowth. A couple of things stand out in my third trial garden, [...]
NEW WAY OF VERMIPONICS
As part of my “rfeiller’s outdoor garden construction” posted in the forum of the DIY Aquaponics website, I had set up 29 five gallon plastic buckets that mostly contained latex paint in their former life. We installed one barbed bulkhead fitting through the bottom of each bucket to drain into a collector to dump into the 600gallon Biopond. [...]
The Continuing Saga of Aquaponics 2nd Qtr. 2011
Having pretty much run the gambit on the greenhouse trial runs, it was time to set up an outdoor garden. In the front courtyard is a KOI pond that has a meandering creek and some small water falls, two turtle ponds, and two biofilters made of rock, filter mat, and EDPM liner. Directly adjacent to this is a front flagstone deck about 16’ wide and [...]
What do I do first? (1st Qtr. 2011)
Some time back I was visiting a hardscape contractor and longtime friend at his storage yard. While there I couldn’t help but notice the menagerie of containers with veggies and flowers growing out of them. There was an old bathtub, some buckets, a couple of metal troughs, and some black plastic pots among other things. Actually except for the [...]
