Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Hadn't heard of these until they were linked on Treehugger yesterday.

Critiques? Seems to need some aquaponicing to me:

http://www.windowfarms.org/

I starting watching that website when LikeHacker mentioned them last year. I got fed up when they failed to moderate their posts allowing any old spam merchant to post stuff there. Not been back since.

I've been looking around the web for designs for vertical growing and paring it down to just a net pot and a funnel and hanging them vertically using gravity drains seems like the go to get maximum density with low weight and cheap material cost.

I have taken to cutting up bottles over the Winter, but I really am squeamish about using plastic water bottles in the sun for growing food. I don't want to grow (bigger) man boobs!

Once you have each plant isolated to a minimum, they could be arranged in a hexagonal close packing HCP lattice - then you'd be growing plants in a volume rather than horizontal or vertical slices (beds or frames). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_close_packing

Really the arrangement is like Dutch Pots only smaller, or like aeroponics (I can't stop thinking about the aeroponics at EPCOT with the plants dangling their roots out in air) but with a funnel to direct the water to the next plant down.

Isn't it more about your other bits shrinking DD ?

Heh maybe. Wouldn't it be better if the plastics put out testosterone instead, giving people who drink from water bottles roid rage?

That's a pretty cool idea, just adding a fish tank and do away with the chemicals.

Can see your point with the bottles, but if they are painted wouldn't that stop the UV breaking them down and releasing the chemicals?

Or just be a bit more selective with the plastic, there are some out there now that do not have the bad stuff in them.