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Jan 22, 2019 7:25 PM CST
Name: wade
the hoosier hills of southeast (Zone 6b)
I'm sure I won't use the right terms here with this discussion but I'll try and explain some of my interests.

I know a few people that grow commercially and the buss in the air right now is that the weather/climate has become so unpredictable and unstable that in the near future cropping will become very difficult to impossible if you can not control the temperature and the moisture. Of course, the alternative is to grow under cover as in greenhouses or tunnels.

This, along with knowing people out west and the difficulty of having ample water has guided my interest to hydroponics. I want to eventually set up a grow out tank for fish and pump that water up to a floating waterbed and allow that to feed a grow bed with the little clay balls and all in it. (See, I told you the terminology would be a problem!).

I've seen some videos where they added earthworms to this bed with the clay balls in it. I have also seen videos where they added crawfish to the beds. Knowing that crawfish feed on the scraps left over from fish etc, I thought of adding them to the floating bed which is in between the fish tank and plant bed. I can't find any info on doing this so thought I would start here. I do love a crawfish boil as I have spent time in the Gulf states. Just a little added pleasure from the "garden".

So does this trigger anyone's memory?
Wade

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