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Post by fulenn on Jul 20, 2012 1:40:44 GMT -5
This spring, my students and I tried setting up 4 hydroponics tanks in the classroom. We went to this website: www.frugalhydroponics.com and set up two of the tanks as deep water culture tanks made out of rubbermaid bins. We did exactly like the man on the website did and had great success! We grew lettuce, swiss chard, italian basil, purple ruffled basil, and spinach in those two tanks. For the other two tanks we still used the deep water culture method, but used five gallon buckets with net pots large enough to fit the lids. We grew a coyote tomato in one pot successfully and tried to grow onions in the other without any success. Overall it was a great experiment and we will be planting them again when school gets going this fall. Fulenn |
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Post by steev on Jul 20, 2012 2:43:11 GMT -5
Nothing works as good as success. Mozeltov!
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Post by templeton on Jul 20, 2012 3:00:41 GMT -5
Sounds great. I've been tossing up about putting in a little aquaponics setup using a 1000litre IBC, but reckon i have enough projects. How old are your students?
(the link didn't work for me).
T
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Post by davida on Jul 20, 2012 20:45:11 GMT -5
This spring, my students and I tried setting up 4 hydroponics tanks in the classroom. We went to this website: www.frugalhydroponics.com and set up two of the tanks as deep water culture tanks made out of rubbermaid bins. We did exactly like the man on the website did and had great success! We grew lettuce, swiss chard, italian basil, purple ruffled basil, and spinach in those two tanks. For the other two tanks we still used the deep water culture method, but used five gallon buckets with net pots large enough to fit the lids. We grew a coyote tomato in one pot successfully and tried to grow onions in the other without any success. Overall it was a great experiment and we will be planting them again when school gets going this fall. Fulenn Fulenn, Thanks for the wonderful post and the link. So exciting to hear about people sharing and teaching younger people about gardening. David |
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Post by fulenn on Jul 21, 2012 12:07:47 GMT -5
Sorry about the link! Here is the correct one: frugalhydroponics.blogspot.com/I should point out that this is NOT my site, but is the site I used as a reference for setting up my classroom tanks. I like that he made his own tanks and kept it cheap. The children were in 1st and 2nd grade and were part of my gifted classes. They really did a nice job. One girl said that her family ordered a hydroponics kit online and would keep us up-to-date on what they were growing. We really had a LOT of basil! One child asked me if he could have more. I smiled and asked if he liked it, he said yes, then looked down and said he hadn't tried it, but his pet bearded dragon loved it. LOL I gave him more. Then we had a chef come in and cook some of what we had grown for the class. That helped a lot. Fulenn |
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Post by templeton on Jul 21, 2012 18:34:48 GMT -5
Thanks Fulenn. Getting kids to grow and eat food is fantastic. Not sure if there is a parallel in North America, but in Australia we have the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation that funds a primary school garden and cooking program. Stephanie is one of Australia's great cooks, and wrote The Cook's Companion, which I think started the world trend to great big voluminous cooking books (think The Silver Spoon, La Cucina, etc). It's my go to cooking reference. Her book was so successful, she has retired, and invested a big chunk of her cash in the foundation, that funds integrated programs that combine gardening and cooking in schools. Programs have to have dedicated gardening and cooking staff, kitchens, gardens, and be integrated across the curriculum. You might get some ideas here. www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/ Apologies if this is preaching to the converted. T |
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Post by fulenn on Jul 23, 2012 16:02:17 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing that link. I have not seen it before and it looks good.
Fulenn
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