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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Hydroponics in a Shipping Container

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Back with Tobias Peggs of Square Roots Grow, today we get into the nitty-gritty of how they set up their hydroponic systems to produce bountiful harvests of greens, herbs, and more. Learn More: Square Roots Grow Website SRG on Instagram Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, hello my friends. Thank you so much for being back with me today. We are again here with Tobias

0:07.2

Pegs of Square Roots Grow and we're getting back to the basics. We're talking about actually how they're growing from a practical

0:13.6

standpoint so what type of hydroponic method are they using what type of

0:17.7

nutrients are they using what crops are they growing why are they making all

0:21.2

these individual decisions?

0:23.0

And I think it's very fascinating to see

0:25.0

because it will inform what works at their scale

0:29.0

may be highly efficient and highly effective

0:31.0

at our scale in the home garden.

0:33.8

So without further ado, let's go ahead and drop into the episode.

0:38.4

To get away from the AI a little bit and move into maybe more of the I guess you might say the more nuts and

0:43.8

bolts or the more basic part of the farm we know already that it's in a

0:47.8

shipping container we know it's hydroponics but could you do you mind

0:50.8

diving into a little bit about the exact way that you guys grow?

0:55.2

Because there's many different ways to grow hydroponically, many different approaches to lighting,

0:59.2

and wondering if you could shine something on that.

1:00.8

Yeah, so, okay, so we grow vertically in towers we actually use the Zikler towers

1:07.5

Oh from Bright Eggertown. Everything else in there is you you know, pretty standard, you know, climate control, the whole thing.

1:16.0

We use a Google IOT layer to, you know, capture the data.

1:22.6

Again, when we think about jumping around and

1:25.4

it's a different aspect of the farm, but when we think about, you know, trying to minimize waste, we want to think about sustainability, so that we use like

1:36.9

cocoa core like compostable cocoa core plugs, you know, versus say the peat moss or the rock wall that you'll find in a lot of a lot of these things

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