The Year-Round Salad Station — DIY Hydroponic Capstone Guide

A $60 homemade hydroponic raft — no pumps, no moving parts, no window required — that puts fresh-cut lettuce and greens on your counter every week of the year, forever. The industry sells this as a $300 gadget with a subscription; the Kratky raft in this guide is a tote, net cups, nutrients, and a light.

Vol. 18 of the Plot & Pantry series · Level 3 — the capstone of the whole journey.

Inside the 32-page illustrated guide: the full build-float-harvest log and the succession loop that never stops (cut a cup, sow a cup), hydroponics demystified (the three things roots need; the two numbers that replace soil), a built-in interactive Grow Journal, verified store links for every part, troubleshooting (algae — the beginner’s rite of passage, root rot, the two numbers), vacation-proofing, six ways to live off the station including the everything-from-the-plot bowl, a printable cheat sheet, and honest FAQs. Method sourced to the University of Hawaii Kratky technique.

What’s included (3 PDF downloads):

• The full interactive guide — grow-journal checkboxes & note fields work in Acrobat Reader, Apple Preview & most PDF apps

• The printable pen-and-paper grow journal

• 🎁 FREE BONUS: the Green Onion Regrow mini-guide — grow food for $0 from kitchen scraps

The final volume of a 3-level path from microgreens to a year-round home plot. Grown by you, for you.