HORTICITY is a company specializing in planning, designing and implementing systems for the cultivation of fruit and vegetables in urban areas.
The garden made popular in the building of Via Gandusio
Horticity helps to satisfy the desire / passion to grow a vegetable garden on the terrace (mini-orchard) by creating a little piece of nature where not only grow traditional herbs (basil, rosemary and mint), but also tomatoes, zucchini and lettuce for home.
The techniques used are those typical of intensive crops off the ground but suitably modified to fit the space requirements, input and care of their little domestic production.
Horticity is also committed to the promotion and dissemination of the social value of the practice in urban horticulture and through participation in projects implementation and management of community gardens that provide counseling and training to associations of horticulturists.
To lose a small hydroponic system easy to implement, requiring no special manual skills it 'a lot of money? Here, a classic dry system, which lends itself well to the early experiments, and that you can build in minutes. So let's see how to make this very simple system out of the ground with automated irrigation.
A homemade hydroponics system simple and striking that allows to appreciate the view of the roots, often produced as a school project for its educational value.
Easy to design and carry out, requires very little effort and gives the opportunity to recycle properly a tank aquarium.
Varying a bit 'materials of this pilot scheme can also be obtained a very valuable decorative effect. For proof go well with a little 'of polystyrene and an abandoned aquarium, glass or plexiglass.
The transparency of the walls is what enables the observation of the roots, but they do not appreciate the light, in this regard so it will be good to get something (cardboard, wrapping paper, plastic sheet, whichever you prefer) with which to coat the mat bath.
Taking care to leave one side removable at any time you can enjoy the view of the root.
Make a sort of hydroponic gardens powered by the sun's heat, which requires almost no maintenance, recycled materials? Possible.
It takes very little money and is not even required a particular skill. Certainly in terms of aesthetics has seen better, but using your imagination you can definitely make some improvements just to the eye.
So, what we see is a prototype system of this kind Ebb & Flood. It is based on the physical principle for which the temperature of the gas trapped in the tank leads to an increase in the volume of the gas itself.
When Cortes employed the concept of exporting democracy with the Aztecs found himself before a great nation that stood before him in all his power in Tenochtitlan, the grand capital of the Aztec kingdom.
I will not dwell on the end of this people at the hands of the conquistadors, but one aspect of which struck the soldiers simpler than these murderous expeditions: on what a likely ex-farmer had hired the Spanish rabble to see with his eyes remained presumably somewhat shaken . The capital of the Aztec kingdom had previously stood on some islets in Lake Texcoco, and was therefore deficient in fertile soil in which to grow: a sin is not just counting allegedly lived in this city about 200,000 people. Thus, striving with what nature had to offer, it is theorized and began using a cultivation technique to "root floating" which consisted in the exploitation of the lake water through the construction of fertile floating islands. Actual rafts of reeds bound together with reeds formed the backbone of this system, therefore, foresees a thin strip of land located on the rafts where to start sowing and then to find food plants in the water below. Read more ...
We continue with the guide for the do-it-yourself building materials recovered in a simple and inexpensive NFT system, designed for outdoor use electronic devices without it 'conoscinze specifications. Here the first part.
PIPE PLUG
We insert the plugs in their place on the ends of the tubes and let us mark the point at which they arrive. And 'well sissare a plug only for a time, to prevent the pipes bending itself pull away from their position.
Let's remember to align the caps recalling that the drain hole must be face down, and that of the entry in the tube following at the top. This will create gradients that will help to oxygenate the water during his tour. The roots will appreciate this attention certainly. Read more ...
Build yourself your own outdoor hydroponic system for growing potatoes, strawberries, lettuce and celery!
My interest in the 'hydroponic goes back to my childhood, when a relative gave me a lamp cultivation. I did not know that hydroponics means growing without soil and not necessarily under artificial light, but that does not stop me from start arranging plants under the stairs at my parents' house.
When the first strawberries have sprouted in the light of my violet fluorescent tubes have been so fascinated from start to think of growing plants in different ways. When I finally understood what it was hydroponics, I could not help but love him.
After years of research and experiments I threw and I recently successfully grown a plant of hot peppers that is literally svettata compared to sister planted in the ground. It was now decided it's what you do for me, I want more and much bigger! Read more ...
We had already spoken here of Jordan Mariani and his hydroponic experiment "poor", inspired by the simplified hydroponics programs promoted by FAO in developing countries.
Here's the video, which shows the stages of implementation and the results obtained.
Windhoek, February 10, 2009 - The association Terre des hommes Italy has donated sixty new boards hydroponics to as many families in need living in the poorest areas of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.
These boards, financed by the Embassy U.S., are systems that allow simplified hydroponics to grow in tight spaces and locally available materials with different vegetables, especially leafy.
The program has existed for several years and allows you to improve your diet, especially children, without any additional cost on meager budgets. For each household, often composed of young and grandparents because of the spread of 'AIDS in the country, besides the material is supplied to the seeds and the necessary training to self-manage their suburban garden.
The choice hydroponics is recurrent in this type of projects for water conservation and providing for the possibility of using recycled materials to set up functional systems. Furthermore, it takes only few specific knowledge and a minimum of daily care to obtain abundant crops several times a year; crops can be followed by children or elderly.
