Kitchen green: a self watering Indoor kitchen garden @ Keralaponics.

Kitchen green is another Indoor self watering kitchen garden developed in Keralaponics. Kitchen green is a mini self watering garden which enables us to grow vegetables, herbs or ornamental plants indoors. This system combines so many established gardening techniques.

A large metal or plastic container of minimum 6” height is the main part of the system. A 2 litre soda bottle with auto siphon mechanism supplies water to the plants. Any vegetables or herbs which are growing well without the full sun light are suitable for planting in Kitchen green.

 A stainless steel basin of 2’ diameter and 0.5’ height is used for the kitchen green shown in the picture. In the bottom of the basin, 1” crushed rubble pieces are filled in to 2” thickness, next 1” is covered with small pieces of coconut husks. The soda bottle with auto siphon mechanism placed inside a 4” PVC pipe at the middle of the basin in way to keep the water level is always up to the top of the crushed rubbles. The PVC pipe acts as a guide for the bottle and holds it. Potting mixture filled above the coconut husk pieces. Planted seedlings and rooted cuttings in the kitchen green.

Plants used here are saplings of Curry tree, Rambha(Panda leaves), Chaya(Spinach tree), Basil, Verigated Cuban Oregano, Pothina and more. This system is only meant for placing under a roof. An over flow system must be attached for placing it on outdoors. Refilling of the bottle is required 10-15 days when became empty. We could add diluted liquid fertilizers to the water when refilling the bottle.

Kitchen green is very useful for the peoples living in urban areas where space is the main constrain for making a garden. Keep a kitchen green, it is very beneficial as a store front of organic vegetables or herbs in our home.

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Indoor self watering tower of foliage plants @ Keralaponics

Keralaponics introduced an Indoor self watering tower of foliage plants with two 2litre soda bottles. The tower accommodates 13 varieties of foliage plants. We can place it anywhere in our home without the fear of wetting the surroundings. A refilling of the reservoir required only bi-weekly.

There are two parts in this plant tower one reservoir and a grow bed. Bottom half portion of a bottle is used as the reservoir and another bottle used as the grow bed. A cotton wick inserted in the middle of the grow bottle in a way to reach it top to bottom and one end taken out to dip in the reservoir. Grow bottle is filled with ordinary potting mixture. Planting is done through the holes around the grow bottle.

Indoor self watering tower of foliage plants looks like a green island inside the home.

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Keralaponics-the Aquaponics Technology Hub of India.

Knowledge hub for Affordable Aquaponics and Urban farming

 

Keralaponics an overview

Keralaponics is a best knowledge hub for affordable aquaponics and Urban farming in India. Keralaponics simplifies various hi-tech gardening techniques in an affordable form, teach it to the common gardeners and compel them to apply it to their gardens. The ultimate aim of Keralaponics is to enhance the organic food production. Aquaponics, hydroponics, hydroculture, vertical garden, wall garden bottle garden and more are the key areas taken up by Keralaponics. Among these gardening practices, Aquaponics is most popular and beneficial one. Research is going on here for the new low cost cultivation techniques in these key areas. So many people from all over India utilized these low cost plant cultivation techniques under the influence of Keralaponics.

Keralaponcs is situated at Thiruvananthapuram, the capial city of Kerala. There are a lot of demo gardens of various novel techniques which helps to learn the affordable gardening. The entire activities related to Aquaponics in Keralaponics are implemented through Aquaponics Kerala.

Major Activities of Keralaponics

For promoting aquaponics and other highly efficient Urban farming systems, Keralaponics conducts training programs, seminars, workshops, exhibitions and Aquaponics farming campaigns periodically to teach the people who are interested in these areas. Websites, blogs in top Websites, Social media groups and pages related Keralaponics have a great collection of information regarding Urban farming like aquaponics, tower garden and bottle garden and more. No doubt, Keralaponics is the top knowledge hub for affordable aquaponics in India.

Consultancy, Design and implementation of aquaponics projects supplying everything required for aquaponics, Urban farming, Marketing assistance for organic vegetables and more are the other activities of Keralaponics.

Aquaponics

Farming practices like aquaculture and hydroponics are successfully merged in an Aquaponics system. Farming of fish is known as aquaculture and growing plants in water is known as hydroponics. Fish and vegetables are growing together in an aquaponics farming system. A fish tank, grow bed and a small pump are the basic components required for aquaponics. Water from the fish tank pumped to the elevated grow bed which flows through it and returned to the tank itself continuously. The nutrients from fish tank water are absorbed by the plants in the grow bed. Aquaponics helps us to enhance the organic food production considerably. 

The miracle of Aquaponics is that it helps to harvest two crops from an investment for only one, just like the saying two birds from a shot. We get chemical free vegetable is the top benefit of aquaponics.

Types of Aquaponics systems

There are mainly three types aquaponics systems are commonly used; they are Deep water culture, media bed or recirculation aquaponics, Nutrient film technique (NFT) aquaponics.

In a deep water culture aquaponics system, the fish tank water pumped to another tank  where plants are growing on floating rafts. Media type aquaculture consists of a fish tank, a grow bed filled with gravel, clay balls or coir, and a pump. Water from the fish tank pumped to the grow bed and it recycled continuously. While in Nutrient film technique (NFT) aquaponics, the nutrient rich fish tank water is pumped to channels or pipes where plants are placed in small plastic pots.

Benefits of Aquaponics

Benefits of Aquaponics farming are as follows;

    

• Allow us to consume chemical free food.
• We can produce two fresh organic foods (fish and vegetables) from minimum input.
• Low investment required.
• High productivity.
• Minimum water consumption.
• Waste free.
• A source of additional income.
• Forget the watering and fertilization of plants.
• No need of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
• You can start an aquaponics system in small scale and expand it gradually.

Grow your own chemical free food for a healthy living.

 

Visit Keralaponics or contact us on 09387735697 for learning more about affordable gardening techniques including Aquaponics, Apartment gardening, Bottle gardening, Self watering planters, Terrariums and for purchasing rare vegetables, medicinal and fruit plants and accessories for gardening.

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