Sky Garden : A week later

Growing new batch of veggies..

It is a confirmation that the water level does matter for the water pump to run perfectly.

Sky Garden : The Monitoring Meter for My Solar Power system

If you are planning to get a SOC  meter for your solar power system, please DO not get this! It is incapable of reporting the right SOC not to mention the SOC of a battery bank.

Sky Garden : Plan B for Duckweed

Lifted the cover and replaced with this 'net' for duckweed growing.

Sky Garden : The Last Harvest for The Year 2013

Would consider this as the last harvest.

The new harvest is expected to be in one month.

As for the fishes, there are 12 left in the tank. Might add maybe 10 or more in the coming month.

Sky Garden : The Backup Plan for The Water Pump

Found that in certain water level, the extreme water pump will stop pumping the water to the growbed, have place the smaller water pump just in case. Yes, running on two pumps to speed up the flushing.

In future, might need to increase the voltage for both of them when additional growbed is to be added.

Sky Garden: Passion...

Have started to trim all the passion fruit plants as there are getting unmanageable. In the coming week, dried leaves and branches should be observed.

Sky Garden: Another harvest

Have another harvest tonight, now left only 20% in the growbed...would try to leave it for now to see if those ladyfingers will grow faster. 

The duckweed growing was a failure might need some contingency plan for that. Well still thinking...

Found that the duration for siphon reaction cycle had been delayed, from 6:11mins to almost 10mins, this means that there's only 6 cutoffs in an hour. This is not a good sign might need to put an additional pump or step up the voltage for current pump.

Sky Garden: The harvest

The Harvest!!!!

Considered organic veggies?

Sky Garden: Aquaponics - the aqua portion

Mainly,  having tilapia in it.. Of course feeding them with veggies...

Sky Garden : Getting complicated

Gosh~ looks at those veggies.. Too crowded as they used to be.. Planning to take those spinach out of the equation. The grape is the new family member.

Aquaponics? What's the 'aqua'? Stay tuned.

Sky Garden: Solar Power

Whenever you are planning to have a parallel battery bank for your solar power system,  remember to charge all the batteries individually until fully charged.  Fully charged means charged them full then rest them for an hour then measure their volt.. The reading must be 12.8 and above.

The reason I post this is because I was struggling with the unequal battery capacity in a parallel battery bank last week.

Sky Garden: Duckweed

Hopefully, I got it right... The duckweed found in a gutter. Do let me know if I got it wrongly. The duckweed is a good food source for the tilapia which I am planning to grow for my tilapia instead of feeding them the 'chemicals' bought from the aquarium. I believe this will make my aquaponics system even  closer to real organic... Hopefully...

Sky Garden : Growing something different

Of course, growing something different meaning growing my wife's favorite veggie...the ladyfingers. There are six of them in the growbed.

Am not sure how far they will grow but I will try anything new...

Sky Garden: My Aquaponics setup