How-to page

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Your job:
-there is minor assembly required. See directions.

-attach the male end of a garden hose to the fitting on the righthand side of the control panel. Make sure it is secure and then you can turn on your tap water supply.

-pack the mesh inserts with the supplied rockwool and place them in the planters. There is one insert with a notch in the rim. That insert is for the "pump planter" and it passes the pump cord.

-Caution:Never operate The Urban Farm without the mesh inserts being full of rockwool. The rockwool displaces a certain amount of volume, which relates to the postion of the auto-fill valve. If operated without rockwool the reservoir will overflow.

-open the auto-fill float valve to fill the reservoir from your tap.

-mix in Urban Farm Fertilizers™ until your supplied TDS meter reads 800ppm plus the ppm's of your plain tap water.

-use HydroSystem's Ph up/down and the supplied Ph strips to adjust your reservoir to 5.8-6.2.

-plug in house power.

-the timer is preset for 8 irrigations/day (every 3 hours).

-wait for an irrigation cycle. The system will fill and drain and the rockwool is now saturated.

-plant your seeds or seedlings (from starter trays) straight into the rockwool.

-From this point on you will simply monitor and adjust your ppms and ph every 1-5 days, depending on how rapidly your tank is changing.

-while plants are young the reservoir will only need to be changed every 3-6 weeks. Large mature plants need a change every 7-21 days. This is simple because of The Urban Farm design. Follow the directions included in every Urban Farm.