Filling dead space with barley in hydroponics or aquaponics systems?

From Pomegranates To Barley In Hydroponics Systems

Finally, that green stuff that you see in the picture, between the white lines – that is not weed. It is barley. To avoid the need for herbicides, they grow barley between the lines of trees. The barley is dominant enough over the wild weeds to achieve a local mono-culture in those lines, thus protecting the trees from weeds, and eliminating the need to herbicides.

Don’t ask me where I saw this word first: pomegranates! Can’t remember! That will be part of an article by itself in the near future! Anyway! Back to …pomegranates!

As I was searching the Net for more info about this unknown fruit, I stumbled on an old article, 2007, about using barley to fill up dead spaces in hydroponics and aquaponics systems.

Dead space in hydroponics or aquaponics sytems! No way! Well…I agree with you! There is not a lot of dead space in hydroponics systems, maybe a little bit more in aquaponics systems. However, if adding barley where it is possible, could simplify the day to day operation of your systems, maybe it is worth to try it! Let’s see what they found out in Israel…a while ago!

Roger Pilon Editor, Ponics News

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The original artile is at Pomegranates and Tomatoes!