Gardening and growing vegetables is a passion many people share. They like to see how a simple seed grows and passes through different stages until it reaches maturity and makes fruits. Also, they love to see how their efforts pay off and they finally get to taste the veggies they have so long waited for. Yet, what can you do when you love to grow plants but your soil is infertile? Well, there are two options: you either give it a try anyway and try to solve the problem using fertilizers, in which case you may end up with poor and tasteless crops or you give up cultivating plants in the ground and go for the aquaponic gardening.
Aquaponics means growing vegetables using water from a fish tank. This solves the unfertile ground problem, as you no longer place your seeds in the ground and it also solves the issue with the taste of your crops. This is a very good alternative to the hydroponic system, as you will not use chemical substances on your plants in aquaponic gardening, thus you will be able to obtain organic food for your family. Many people complained about the lack of taste that crops grown in hydroponic gardens had, but this is not the case with the ones grown in aquaponic systems. Because they are fed with the water from the fish tank, the plants grown in the aquaponic get natural food which will enhance their taste, making them taste better even than the ones grown on fertile soil.
Apart from this, the aquaponic system also enables you to grow fish. In fact, this is one of the conditions to have an aquaponic system. This means that not only will you have fresh and tasty veggies, but you can also eat fish grown in your house. It will save you great amounts of money and will offer you healthy meals each and every day.
Growing plants using the aquaponic system is easy and rewarding no matter where you are! Forget about the quality of your soil, about digging, fertilizing, and removing weeds from your land! You can obtain organic veggies and fresh fish in your own house with a minimum of effort and investment!
What Plants are Suitable for Aquaponics?
You may grow just about any plant in your aquaponics system, from leafy greens such as lettuce, spinach, root crops, like carrots and fruiting plants like tomatoes and strawberries. You can also grow ornamental plants like ferns, palms, flowers, and herbs. Plants can be grown from seeds or seedlings. Plus, the aquaponics system is beneficial because they don’t harbor soil pests, and no pesticides needed.
Does Aquaponics need Sunlight?
Yes even if you plan to grow outdoor your plants need full of sunlight. Be sure that your aquaponic system gets sun throughout the day, if you plant during winter months or you want to grow inside, you will need to provide your plants adequate light.
Thank you so much for reading this article, hope it will help you and give you an idea to have one in your own place.
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Lily
What a fabulous idea Joyce. This was you solve all the problems of poor soil, pests, and weather, and you get vegetables and fish to eat. I love this idea. I wonder how I would go about setting it all up? Would you buy a large fish tank and then have the filtering water go into long tubes like hydroponics to grow your vegetables?
I will be looking into the materials to set this up as soon as possible. It makes me hungry just thinking about it.
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Hello Lily,
Thank you so much for coming and having time to read these articles. And thank you for the advice, so I know, and I’m going to fix it. Thank you, my friend. Best wishes,
Joyce