The correct pH in is essential for optimizing your grow. You can measure pH in your substrate as well as in your nutrient solution. Some professional growers even as far as measuring the internal pH of plants with plant sap measurements! For the sake of this article we’ll start with the basics. WHAT IS PH? […]
Transplanting is one of the most stressful moments for your plant. When it’s not done right your plant will need some time to recover before growing any further. Most of us already know not to disturb our plants’ roots when transplanting, so in this quick article we’ll show you another helpful method to minimize transplant […]
Winter is the season of hot cocoa by the fireplace and preparing for the new growing season. While it’s still early for gardening in open soil, it’s the perfect time to start building a square-foot-garden. The idea was conceived by Mel Bartholomew, who wrote the best selling gardening book: Square Foot Gardening. These are some of the […]
Una batalla por su jardín, invisible a simple vista, se está librando en su zona de raíces. Trillones de bichos microscópicos compiten brutalmente por el dominio. ¿Qué son? ¿Qué hacen? ¿Y por qué importa? Es posible que haya escuchado que un hospital es el mejor lugar para enfermarse, a pesar de que todo es muy […]
Summer is over, and most of us have harvested all there was to harvest from our gardens. Of course we still need a steady supply of vitamins and minerals in our diet. Well, we have just the thing for you, because in this post we’re showing you how to grow your own super nutritious sprouts! […]
In this post we’re giving you an introduction in the world of mulching. Mulch is basically any material that’s used as a soil covering. There’s a whole lot of organic and inorganic mulch materials available. Think of things like straw, grass clippings, wood chips, leaves, but also newspapers or just plastic. Like everything in life, […]
¿En qué piensas cuando escuchas «Silicona»? ¿Son los implantes mamarios? Bueno, eso está lejos de ser el único uso del segundo elemento más abundante en la tierra. El silicio se encuentra en cosas como el vidrio, cemento, porcelana y electrónica. Y también se usa en fertilizantes agrícolas. El silicio se ha clasificado recientemente como un […]
Making mistakes is a great tool for learning and everyone makes mistakes when they first start their own veggie patch. We wouldn’t want you to lose hope after an unsuccessful first season of growing, so we’ll tackle some of the most common beginner mistakes in this article. That way you don’t have to make them […]
Todos hemos escuchado acerca de los aminoácidos, pero ¿qué son realmente? Sin ellos la vida en la tierra dejaría de existir. Desempeñan un papel esencial en diversas funciones críticas de plantas, animales y todos los demás organismos. Echaremos un vistazo al papel que juegan los aminoácidos en el desarrollo de las plantas, pero primero echemos […]
With the summer holidays almost over, students and teachers of agricultural school CitaVerde in Heerlen (NL) are getting ready for a new schoolyear. Last year Aptus first collaborated with CitaVerde in the project Green Production. Two classrooms are turned into greenhouses, in which students learn how to grow their own food and learn about the building […]