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Aquaponic Gardening, A Step-By-Step Guide To Raising Vegetables And Fish Together

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Hydroponics + Aquaculture = Aquaponics. Already, visions of fish tanks supporting planting beds (and vice versa) swims in the imagination. It may be a way to save our oceans from over fishing and provide local foods (fishes and plants). And here starts this book, explaining all the reasons why you should too be at least curious about this way of gardening. The book in itself is superb, gives enough information to start the system successfully and is well structured (divided by chapters tackling each aspects of the system like water, fish, plumbing, media, plants, bacteria and worms, and more). The only things that nocked a star out of the review :

First, the beginning of the book is a lot (a lot!) of pages that keep repeating why you should engage in this and some reasons came back multiple times.

Second, a point you have to be warned about before getting involved in this kind of system, it's a very complex system that requires a lot of "measurements" for lack of a better term. Example : A fish tank this size will acommodate X pounds of fish (it gets more complex since fishes do start small and grow up) and provide for X size of planting beds, with adequate light, with plumbing pipes of X inches, with a pump of X force... It gets a bit discouraging at some point (maybe it explains why the introduction is trying so hard to convince the reader).

Is it worth it? Yes! With this book you will have all the information required to get your own aquaponic system started. It is a good, thorough book. But if you are inexperienced in either fishes or gardening (without mentionning DIY projects), this might be too much to successfully pull it off at first.

Aquaponic Gardening, A Step-By-Step Guide To Raising Vegetables And Fish TogetherGreat book that is both easy to read and logically set out. I finished it with a GREAT deal of enthusiasm and desire to begin.