aquaponic organic

Aquaponics has been around for a good few years now but came into the limelight recently on a TV documentary. Basically it is a way to grow vegetables in double fast time while producing more crops. Aquaponics is huge in Australia and in the UK, it is also growing in popularity in the US.

Aquaponics systems can be as big or small as you like and can be placed indoors or outside. The system is a natural cycle where nothing is wasted. The fish produce waste and instead of the dirty fish water going through a filter it passes through the plant beds. These plant beds clean the water but also feed your plants, the fish water is perfect nutrition for your organic vegetables.

If you fancy trying your hand at Aquaponics be careful because some of the kits are a rip off. I have seen them on sale for over a thousand dollars, a ridiculous price when you can build your own aquaponic system for less than a hundred. In fact I have seen grow beds alone going for up to nine hundred bucks when again you can make a better one for twenty.

The best way up get into this hobby is to build a do it yourself Aquaponics system, which is cheap and easy. This way if you find that it's not for you then you haven't wasted much cash.

My own experience was that I built a small indoor system and got addicted to the food that I grew because it simply tastes amazing. I now have a huge outdoor Aquaponics set up in my garden and even in the UK where it's not overly warm the plants grow just fine.