Seeds For Your Aquaponics
If you choose to pursue organic certification, you MUST purchase organic seeds whenever they are available in the varieties you plan to grow. [Read more…]
Planting Trials Results
Results of our system test plantings from Dec. 2007 – April 2012 are contained in the downloadable PDF file SuperchargedVegetables.pdf, which you can download by CLICKING HERE. We can’t really put it in the blog post here, because it’s 24 PAGES LONG! And full of color photos! (Get the idea?). [Read more…]
Feeding The Fish And Making Your Own Fish Food
The fish food we use for both catfish and tilapia is Rangen 1/8” floating catfish food. You can use any floating food that has [Read more…]
Results Of Our Test Grows:
Positive Results Of Our Test Grows:
There’s a ton of stuff our aquaponics systems grow really well: basil, thyme, oregano, cilantro, Italian parsley, and other specialty herbs; all kinds of lettuces, chives, green onions, [Read more…]
Measuring Iron In Your Live Aquaponic System Water
There’s a lot of nonsense in the aquaponics forums and among the “experts” about how it’s neccesary to measure iron with this test kit or that; and then to “keep it within certain limits” [Read more…]
How to combine Permaculture with Aquaponics
If you install a tank downhill from your sump tanks and plumb it to the overflows from the different sump tanks, it will catch the overflow of system nutrient water that comes from those tanks [Read more…]
Why We Don’t Build The Troughs Off The Ground
This is why we don’t build the troughs “up off the ground to avoid bending over when working”. [Read more…]