Diy Hydroponics

Air powered hydroponic gardening with homemade air powered water pumps and grow containers.  Laura and I try to be as Eco-Freindly with our hydroponic gardening as possible.  We build our own hydroponic grow filters and grow containers from recycled or new food safe plastics.

The more plastics we can save from the landfill the greener the gardening is.  We built a green house to extend our growing season for our plants and vegetables and dug a small pond into the ground of the green house 7' x 4' x 3' deep and lined it with pond liner to hold water for our fish. Hydro the Koi can be seen patrolling the small pond checking me out while I was making  videos for YouTube.

The pond with fish allows us to irrigate our homemade hydroponic grow containers and natural occuring bacteria converts the amonia-waste from the fish into a nitrate that the plants can use to grow.  What happens in this process is by using a closed circut (pond water pumped to trays or containers, and then returned back to the pond) the plants get food to grow and the fish get the water cleaned by the process. This is of course is Aquaponics and is eco-friendly.   Using recycled food safe plastics for grow trays, containers, filters, and reservoirs helps do our part to keep plastics from landfills.  It is clean fun and Green :) By puttiing the pond in the ground it helps the water or (living nutrient solution) at a more constant temperature, not only for the fish but by heating the water in the winter the fish stay active and the warm fish water is used to irrigate your hydroponic containers warming the root zone.

Diy air powered water pump denonstration showing the water pumps in action.