DIY Floating Bio-Filter Garden

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This is my experiment with a floating garden used to keep algae growth down, fish protected from predators, and a no-tend vegetable garden. See details at www.diymarta.com/floating-bio...
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@pressepic1 4 года назад

This is super cool! I love that you built the island out of recycled materials. 👍👍👍

@ericjudson8242 Год назад

Thank you for sharing. I was glad to see that your island garden is able to survive being frozen solid.

@Diypics Год назад

I am as surprised as you. This is year five for that island, and it still floats. The root system is fantastic and fish love hiding under it.

@orionlottering7349 2 года назад

Genius. Thankyou. Been looking for something like this for ages. Almost got all the hardware as well.

@batikpin7615 5 лет назад

Beautiful Marta's island . Really love the idea .👌

@mightyjo3young 4 года назад

Amazing! Great job constructing it out of recyclables. Even better that it works to clean water! Best of all your getting strawberries out of it! I’m going to have to make one now.

@soppingwetburgers6493 5 лет назад

I've been looking for something like this , thank you

@sandralewis1689 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for the underwater and 2nd year photos. Everything looks great when brand new but the real test is how it holds up over time! How did the potatoes do?

@Diypics 10 месяцев назад

The potatoes had nowhere to grow 🙂 It's year six now and the island is still afloat. All naturalized grass with some mint and strawberries holding out.

@ladeene06 5 лет назад

Absolutely BRILLIANT!😎🍄🐝🐢

@ilianascreationsanddiys7795 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing you inspired me to make my own last year still holding up. I made it slightly different but its also smaller. Absolutely my favorite piece in my pond

@Diypics 3 года назад

I'd love to see a picture! Can you post to my Facebook?

@ilianascreationsanddiys7795 3 года назад

I don't have face book but you can see it on my RU-vid channel I've posted a few pond videos recently one of my islands second season. I added fresh soil as you recommended in video. Its doing great!

@ilianascreationsanddiys7795 3 года назад

@@Diypics i realized non of the videos I've posted so far have any footage of island after I did maintenance on it. I put it on my instagram. I'll post one soon and send you a message. Thanks for responding

@mactackett1 5 лет назад

Marta's Island. What a great idea. Looks wonderful. You're quite the handygal. Wish I could do that is Texas, but the snakes would love it too much. Thanks for the video.

@Diypics 5 лет назад

Snakes would add a nice touch :)

@elwhitman4779 3 года назад

what a clever idea. I'm trying to deal with algae in a turtle pond and this looks like a perfect addition for the turtle and the algae. Thank you.

@Diypics 3 года назад

I hope you post yours!

@elwhitman4779 3 года назад

@@Diypics definitely once done.

@_Lightning_Dog_ 5 лет назад

Those strawberry plants are amazing!!!

@Diypics 5 лет назад

They were. Unfortunately they are being smothered by grass now. But the point is to let it go wild.

@kimuseni 5 лет назад

Great idea

@dingding94 5 лет назад

nice idea

@ciceroaraujo5183 3 года назад

You are really inspiring

@arvingaw5508 4 года назад

where was i the whole time, this is great

@saskiaeveringham7167 Год назад

lovely video. did you have a formula to work out the area needed to support the weight? or just trial and error? Im making something out of bamboo but it needs to hold about 250kgs of sand on top

@robertoler3795 4 года назад

well done

@taramansion Год назад

The music cluttered up the video almost to the point where it was unwatchable. Aside from that I love the idea and will use it for my pond. Thank you for repurposing.

@chynesteban3309 5 лет назад

Very good. To me, this a simple way to explain the floating chinanpas used by Aztecs over 2000 years ago. I have been looking for this kind of information. The soil of your floating garden shares nutrients with the water under it, and combined with the fish waste in the water make the perfect solution for you plants (Aquaponics?). Thank you, I got the answer to many questions from a very valuable short video.

@Diypics 5 лет назад

Let me know your results if you try it out. One thing I would do differently would be to use the denser blue polystyrene. This is the fourth year of my floating island and it is still floating fine, but the polystyrene is drenched.

@willigubier4581 5 лет назад

Hi Marta, thanks so much for this info, on your page where you should how you made it, the polystyrene has some holes already in it, did you make more holes in the polystyrene or were the holes it had enough to get a good amount of roots through, also it seems you filled the holes in the polystyrene with what looks like coconut coir before covering with hessian, is this right? Thanks again

@Diypics 5 лет назад

Thanks for the questions. The poly had some holes and I added more for the roots. I tried different ways to keep dirt from falling through the holes. Coconut fiber was one way. Then I covered the whole thing with burlap. The burlap eventually disintegrates, but by then the root system is dense and holds the little bit of dirt pretty well. I'm in year 4 of my island and it looks like a natural island.

@gogreenlocally 4 года назад

Hello! I really like your island. Have you had any problems with little balls from breaking off from the foam? How long has your island lasted so far? Thanks for sharing!

@AlecMuller 3 года назад

Looks like it's still floating! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-di5i_ven_hA.html

@JG-mt3rp Год назад

this music is crackong me up 😂 great video though super helpful

@SuperXrunner 5 лет назад

Sweet

@limbodog 2 года назад

Is there any math out there on just how much water each plant can clean up? Like number of cubic liters per plant etc?

@RAVI4002 4 года назад

thks

@FknNefFy 3 года назад

You could use any kind of floating jars or s and make a met connecting it all and float your plants. Or what about just a wooden pallet?

@Diypics 3 года назад

Thanks for the ideas. Pallets would work at first but they'd get waterlogged and sink eventually. And I want to avoid non-natural materials. I'm currently collecting a ton of corks :)

@peterbrown5685 5 лет назад

Hi Marta, I have some suspended pond baskets with Irises in them as the ledges in my pond are too deep for them to sit on. Could I incorporate those baskets on such an island?

@Diypics 5 лет назад

Peter, you sure could incorporate those baskets.

@williambillings832 5 лет назад

Thank you for sharing. What happened with the potatoes? How did that work out?

@Diypics 5 лет назад

Glad to share. You know, I never checked the potato tubers. I just left the plant to die off last fall. I'll have to look and see if the plant came back this year.

@Cina31373 5 лет назад

Do the plants come back or do you need to replant them each year? I have a very green pond and would love to try this. Thank you.

@Diypics 5 лет назад

It depends on the plant. The strawberries have come back every year. Right now grass is taking over the island, so it's tough for other plants to compete.

@Cina31373 5 лет назад

Thank you!

@dahliadelcastillo5472 Год назад

Cocconut fiber will not decay and add organic matter to the water or root in the rack?

@Diypics Год назад

It would. I think that's a good thing.

@ciceroaraujo5183 3 года назад

This is great for Bangladesh

@bobwallace9753 Год назад

There are extensive floating gardens, actually farms, in Kashmir - Dal Lake and Myanmar - Inle Lake. And in Bangladesh - "Floating gardens are most common in the districts of Gopalganj, Barisal and Pirojpur. " "in one part of south-central Bangladesh, for 300-400 years, people have been following an age-old traditional method of cultivation called dhap, or known locally as baira. These are floating vegetable gardens - artificial islands,"

@SherrickDuncan 2 месяца назад

Does it filter / visibly clear up your water at all?

@Diypics 2 месяца назад

It does, but the pond is also in the shade now (the trees at the edge grew up over the years), and I know that has helped the algae growth as well.

@lldeb09 7 лет назад

Do you have to water at all or does it draw water up through the roots from underneath?

@Diypics 7 лет назад

Debbie L Gregory I watered the first week and then never again. The idea is for it to wick upwards. In fact, you can just wait a week before planting. The wicking system will be ready by then.

@VincentGonzalezVeg 5 лет назад

@@Diypics if you look up floating gardens you will find them to be effective, you get a substrate and a resistance to sinking or you anchor it where you want so its like a pier, you can add substrate and below water plants for more biodiversity and protective vegetation because hawks and raccons

@lilzim43 5 лет назад

@@VincentGonzalezVeg will hawks eat fruit?

@corycharles5057 3 года назад

If the plants are perrinial, do u need to bring them out of water in winter?

@Diypics 3 года назад

I don't mess with the island at all after painting. What survives the winter, survives. I think this is year 5, and it's pretty much just grass and strawberry plants.

@FknNefFy 3 года назад

I don’t think styrofoam is good for the fish. Glass jars or food safe Tupperware...?

@woodshopdesignco.6760 5 лет назад

Great video. Do the roots grow thru the burlap and down thru the holes in the styrofoam? Can the styrofoam be toxic to the fish if left to breakdown over time? I'm thinking about doing something like this in my Koi pond. Last time I tried with smaller floating baskets, the koi ate all the roots and killed the plants. Looks like maybe the burlap could protect them long enough to get established. Thanks for sharing!

@Diypics 5 лет назад

That's an interesting experience. I have the same concern about the styrofoam being toxic. The fish didn't seem to be affected, but I wonder about the long-term effect. I'm in the process of re-thinking the materials for this island. I'm going to build one with cork stoppers as the flotation component. But I still have to come up with a non-toxic frame. Plastic and foam can break down over time (and not in a good way). Any ideas?

@woodshopdesignco.6760 5 лет назад

@@Diypics maybe PVC pipe frame? I assume if we can drink from it after long periods of time it would be ok. Especially if it was covered and out of the sun.

@Diypics 5 лет назад

@@woodshopdesignco.6760 But we can drink from straws too, and look what they're doing to the ocean. I want to think way into the future. Bamboo maybe?

@laurens9561 4 года назад

@@Diypics Hi Marta, Great set-up first of all. But when I saw the styrofoam I immediately hit the comment section. I'm glad you realize this is toxic and are looking for other materials. Did you have any luck finding anything new ? I'll get searching as well because I like the idea to build one for my father's pond.

@saskiaeveringham7167 Год назад

@@Diypics how about bamboo?

@gogreenlocally 4 года назад

One other question...is the soil making contact with the water? It looked like it was floating above, but I'm guessing it must be in the water somewhat or those plants wouldn't be surviving.

@Diypics 4 года назад

I was hoping it would be more above the water than it is. The soil will wick water upwards after the initial week of watering, so you don't have to worry about the plants. This year a Canada Goose tried to use it as a nest. She pulled all the dead grass from around the edges to pad her nest and it's bald all around the edge now. She didn't end up using it. Pooh. I will for the first time add soil where it's bald and throw some herb seeds on it.

@gogreenlocally 4 года назад

@@Diypics Darn! Well, it sounds like it's holding up pretty well, all things considered. I'm going to see if I can make one with the more condensed foam that doesn't break off in little balls and hopefully recycle some from some shipping container or packaging. If it looks even half as good as yours, I'll be thrilled. It's quite impressive how you created this video over a long period of time. We often don't get to see that. thanks! Happy herb planting :))

@Diypics 4 года назад

@@gogreenlocally When you do, make a video so I can link forward to it.

@gogreenlocally 4 года назад

@@Diypics Ok will do! I have added this to the long "to-do" list that I have going :))

@nickrinehart8852 4 года назад

Any issues with heavy rain?

@Diypics 4 года назад

No. It didn't even take a beating from the two hard winters it passed through with several feet of ice and snow on top.

@cleiltonrakdossantos9859 5 лет назад

Muito bom, esse lago é artificial? É que me pareceu tão natural

@Diypics 5 лет назад

Sim, é artificial. É para irrigação.

@cleiltonrakdossantos9859 5 лет назад

@@Diypics tem peixes nele?

@Diypics 5 лет назад

@@cleiltonrakdossantos9859 Tinha, mas os passaros comeram todos

@oseiedwards5613 5 лет назад

Nice Toes. ;)

@steveanderson3942 5 лет назад

Maybe you could use some rubber air bags instead of styrofoam?

@Diypics 5 лет назад

If rubber were still made from tree sap, yes. But I think it's a petroleum product? Anyone know of a biodegradable rubber?

@yanaray9495 5 лет назад

Dang...whole video ruined by that horrible music. I am going to try and persevere.

@Crystalpal1978 17 дней назад

No point of back ground music, hard to hear

@Diypics 17 дней назад

@@Crystalpal1978 I dearly wish I could change this now!!

@theemeraldfox7779 5 лет назад

Bicycle rims are gonna rust!

@Diypics 5 лет назад

Even carbon trims? Anyway, by then the root system will be holding everything together.

@sandponics 5 лет назад

Styrofoam is gonna degrade and get into the environment.

@Diypics 5 лет назад

@@sandponics you're right. I want to redesign this with natural materials only. Cork for flotation, but what for the frame?

@sandponics 5 лет назад

@@Diypics I don't know what you could use for the frame Marta, but we need to urgently tackle the plastic pollution problem globally otherwise, the future may be bleak for the environment.

@tearnieharper-brooks1377 4 года назад

@@Diypics Bamboo for the frame would be biodegradable

@worddunlap 5 лет назад

Didn't the Incas do this and why the porno music? Is it an allegory?

@Diypics 5 лет назад

The Incas did do this--or a variation of it. And I don't watch porn, so I wouldn't know the connection. Dearly wish I could change that sound track, but RU-vid won't let me.

@EMILCAT7 5 лет назад

What porn have you been watching? Puppet porn or what?

@valenting3183 2 года назад

GREAT USE OF TRASH!! Not buying more Plastic to make something Green.

@Diypics 2 года назад

Even so, I would like to find non-plastic trash to use.

@valenting3183 2 года назад

@@Diypics I understand - however if you didn't recycle that foam it would immediately becoming pollution and meanwhile most "natural" things might have to be treated not to biodegrade. You really are doing an angelic thing to look for and use that horrid "one use foam." I will definitely emulate you, even though I'll be making 2 so small.. On one I was thinking of planting Florida native Swamp Milkweed. On another Horse reed and Chocolate mint (both of the last being possibly invasive - so to keep under control.) 2 sides of a box my neighbor is sure to use... And throw out..

@Diypics 2 года назад

@@valenting3183 Post your results on my Facebook page by the same name. Thanks!

@valenting3183 2 года назад

@@Diypics I will Marta - hopefully this weekend - and please see my next one I will post as a new comment. When I post it will be as @MadelineHere or Madeline Gutiérrez - my dad is Valentin. (Born on Valentine's Day. Whimsical Mom my grandmother - whose name was Marta btw!)