Apr 14, 2018Look no hands! Feeding fish on holiday**No, not when the fish are on holiday. When we are. Fish keeping best practice is apparently to feed by hand as it provides a routine to...
Mar 17, 2018Slugicide: does it matter how you kill slugs?After the initial success of the beer traps, the suicide rate plummeted. Despite being English, these slugs don’t love their beer enough...
Feb 6, 2018Slug WarsI recall the fun of digging the greenhouse to home the sump tank. I recall the excitement of seeing the aquaponic grow beds glistening in...
Nov 5, 2017Build your own aquaponics greenhouse - part 3Part 1 covered the build, and part 2 the plumbing. In this post I'll cover the growing media, plants and fish. The choice of growing...
Sep 7, 2017Build your own aquaponics greenhouse - part 2* Geekery warning * Apparently, this post is heavy on technical detail and somewhat light on comedic anecdotes. (Personally, I'm ok with...
Sep 5, 2017Build your own aquaponics greenhouse - part 1I first heard about aquaponics at a permaculture talk in London. One of the speakers, Richard Tatum, described the aquaponics...