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Welcome to our Hybrid Aquaponics\Hydroponics Kitchen Garden

Welcome to our DIY Hybrid Aquaponics/Hydroponics garden that my son and I engineered over the Covid-19 Quarantine period: The year 2020 has hit us like an unexpected curve ball. The biggest impact thus far is the worldwide coronavirus pandemic which resulted in many countries including Trinidad and Tobago to issue a lockdown and quarantine period. Being classified as a non-essential worker and fearing a possible food shortage, I decided to work on a bucket list project with my son, which was the modification of my existing koi pond to a sustainable Aquaponics garden. After looking through several YouTube videos I was able to engineer a Nutrient Film Technique (NFT) system that was suited to my existing infrastructure, with minimal extra expenses (PVC pipes and fittings...and seedlings of course). The system works by pulling water from the pond, via a submersible pump and running it directly into a filtration canister, which removes the solid waste and sterilizes the water using a UV-bulb. Further to this, within the filtration canister, the filtrate flows through a biomedia system that converts the harmful nitrites to more favoured nitrates via nitrobacter bacteria. This is a more efficient method than having an additional bulky settling tank, which is usually used. The water (containing the dissolved nutrients) is then passed through the grow-beds via the irrigation pipes and after exiting the other end, drained back into the pond. During our second crop cycle I experienced a problem that many Aquaponics farmers face, which was nutrient deficiencies such as Chlorosis that resulted in plant health degradation. After researching the issue, I was able to modify the existing system that now blended the principles of Hydroponic gardening into the Aquaponic system. This now enabled me to introduce synthetic fertilizers (at a concentration that is not poisonous to the fish) and boost the plant growth to an acceptable rate. Our garden also features a successful non-toxic means of active and systemic pest control of White-flies and Aphids by using grease-coated yellow plastic cups and inter-planting sulfur secretory bulb vegetables, namely chives .