Aquaponics

Look 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...

Slugicide: 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...

Slug Wars

I recall the fun of digging the greenhouse to home the sump tank. I recall the excitement of seeing the aquaponic grow beds glistening in...

Build your own aquaponics greenhouse - part 3

Part 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...

Build 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...

Build your own aquaponics greenhouse - part 1

I first heard about aquaponics at a permaculture talk in London. One of the speakers, Richard Tatum, described the aquaponics...