Depending on the type of plants you grow, your water quality and the quality of the feed being fed to your fish, you may never have iron deficiency issue. So, naturally the first step is to identify if you have a problem with iron in your aquaponics How would you know? Well, visual check is …
Planning is “key” to building a long-term, efficient and effective aquaponics design. This is especially true when you’re a newbie to aquaponics. It may not be easy when you are just starting out to build your first system. Well, to give you a hand here are the top 5 tips to help you get going. …
Though it hurts me to say this but the fact is, most organic food that we eat today is not what they seem to be. Even though we like to think we are consuming wholesome and nutritious vegetables, the fact is far from it. In essence, we are eating chemically processed, pesticides and herbicides packed food. …
One of the main reasons why people get hooked on to aquaponics is the fact that it needs minimal maintenance compared to conventional ways of agriculture. Nevertheless, there are some routine chores that one should do in order to ensure a continuously flourishing aquaponics system.Today I have outlined some of these chores to maintaining your …
Today, I would like to touch on how you can transfer your aquaponics seedlings to the grow bed. Now, you could be transferring seedlings from a nursery that you may use or from your grow bed itself. It all depends of course on where you sow your seeds. For me, I sow them directly to …
I would like to talk about sizing your aquaponics system today. This is a question I often get from newbies setting up a system for the first time and it’s a very valid question indeed. How big should your aquaponics system be? Well, that all depends on a number of factors really, but the biggest one …
Why do you need to grow your own organic food? Well, I have listed out five of what I think are the most compelling reasons why. Best of all you can do that with backyard aquaponics. Yes, you can easily construct an aquaponics setup right at your very own backyard. Why Grow Organic Food? 1. …
Home aquaponics is becoming a lot more acceptable as a means to grow organic food in recent years. And it’s popularity is spreading towards the south pacific region as well. This is no surprise since the advantages of getting an aquaponics system in your house are just phenomenal. One good example is the fact that …
I’ve just harvested my “Bok Choy” from my flood and drain hydroton media bed system about two weeks ago using the cut-and-come-again technique. It didn’t work, and for a good reason. Explore further to find out why. Bak Choys never seem to grow big with aquaponics, well at least it’s true with my set-up, but they …
