Hattiesburg Fungi

I began this project about 1 year ago and had to stop because I didn’t have every thing I needed to get it all put together and going.  I still don’t, but I decided not to let that stop me.

I still need a pump that can handle pumping the water up to the flood tank (the tank on the very top.) The one I have wont quite make it up there.  So, in the mean time I am just pumping the water up to the grow beds and only supplying one bed.  I’m doing this with a cycle time so that the pump runs for 15 minutes and then the beds drain for about 17-18 minutes.

I’m not sure if the water has really had time to adjust to the proper levels of whatever it needs to be at but I just had to add some fish.  I added 20 gold fish in the tank and it has only been up for maybe 2 weeks now.  The fish seem to be doing fine and have been in the tank for 10 or so days.

I couldn’t wait to plant some stuff and figured I didn’t have anything to loose.  I planted several different things just to see what would happen.  so far the beans are doing great, I have some tomatoes that have come up, and the cabbage is doing good too.

I was reading a post on the Yahoo group for Barrel-Ponics about the plants other mineral needs.  Some posters said they were using ironite and others said they used kelp meal.

One member of the group said he prefered to use the kelp meal that was animal grade  and incorporated it into his fish food.

I had some dulse flakes in the pantry that I rarely use.  Dulse is red sweed and has lots of great benefits for us humans.  So, I figured why not.  I dont know if its about he same as animal grade kelp meal but…

Anyway, as I was saying, after reading that they needed more than just fish poop, i decided to give them the dulse flakes.  I will get some kelp meal and maybe some ironite this weekend.  The fish seemed to like the dulse flakes.  We will see how it all does together.

bean plant - 1 week old

I plan to track the beans progress daily and will add to the slides.

Pictures taken between 04/01/09 – ??/??/09