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    Aquaponics Explained – Part 2

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ November 17, 2010 ⋅ 6 comments

    Welcome back to the aquaponics revolution.
    In the last issue we talked about just what aquaponics is (the marriage of aquaculture and hydroponics) and how it works. I described system types and then went into some detail about the creatures that live in a media-based aquaponics system: fish, plants, bacteria, and worms.
    This article is the second [...]

    Bhut Jolokia: From Seed to Harvest & Beyond

    By Eliab ⋅ December 17, 2009 ⋅ 27 comments

    The Bhut Jolokia Pepper is the world’s hottest pepper. In 2008, Guinness WBoR bestowed this variety with such a title after some Jolokias at the Chile Pepper Institute of New Mexico tested at a mind-boggling 1,500,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). Intrepid blogger Eliab details his experiences growing Bhut Jolokia (also known as Naga Jolokia or Ghost Pepper).

    Ebb and Flow System (aka Flood and Drain)

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ November 6, 2009 ⋅ One comment

    The Ebb and Flow hydroponics system is a very popular method among first time hydroponicists.  It uses a submersible pump in a nutrient reservoir to pump nutrients into an upper tray containing the plants.  The pump is switched on several times a day via a basic timer.  The nutrient solution is pumped up to the [...]

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