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Yes, garden, then you can spend $5 on a pepper once you've factored in cost of all the supplies
Well I use the chilly seeds and plant them on the terrace, and voila, infinite chillies and chilly flakes. My investment is time, used jars and dirt I bought once. I water them with fertilized aquarium water and I don't know what to do with them.
If you got fish and an aquarium, might want to look into aquaponics.
It's better for herbs and spices since without soil other produce doesn't taste as good.
As a bonus, aquaponic grow beds work really well for propagating plants from cuttings. I have been able to make a lot of fruit tree saplings with it.
We had good luck getting things started on an aquaponics aquarium, but very little luck keeping them alive long term there. Basil did okay, but not most other things. And my wife was following all the advice from reputable places. Not sure what the issue was, but we gave up.
I've had issues with draining out the grow beds enough. If they aren't drained well enough then the roots might rot or the plants might die from too much water.
If you have a single grow bed, it's a lot easier. Then you mostly just have to worry about the siphon initiating and stopping at the right times. Which is something you can see and fix in less than an hour before there is plants.
Not sure what your situation was, but it's best to start small and try to account for every variable.
I'm on year 3 of my setup, and I just added another 2 grow beds and a sand root zone in the sump.
I'm not seeing the one we had online anymore. It was small, maybe 6 gallons of so. Clear plexiglass on front and right side, gravel bottom. Little slots at the bottom left, under the gravel, let water go into a smaller area on the left side. There was a section above that, and another along the back, with plant baskets,. Water was pumped from lower left into upper left, which followed through the bottle of the plant baskets and made a little waterfall into the main tank at the back right. We just had a few guppies in it.
Oh cool all I need now is an aquarium, how expensive could that be?
If you use the plants to filter the water, it is a lot less expensive than a typical aquarium.
But if you love fish (or just like eating them) then this is a solid way to go.
Haha, buy a man a fish, he'll be happy for a day, buy a man an aquarium, he'll be poor until he dies.
Share with neighbors! Sell some?
Already did, now they're swimming in chillies. :D