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How does Aquaponics compare with Soil Gardening?
Although we do produce both Permaculture and Aquaponics videos we were asked recently to compare the two methods and which one we preferred using ourselves – in our garden? Notice the caveat – in our...
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Gardening with a Moon Phase Calculator
Red Full Moon A while back on the Aquaponics forum someone mentioned that they only sow their seeds according to the phases of the moon! Planting at the wrong time of the moon’s cycle would result in...
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Bathtub Gardening
While filming with Tania Coppel about her story on compost toilets we spotted this ring of bathtubs all under wire netting. They reminded me of a ring of wagon trains circling round like in a cowboy...
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Building a Raised Bed Garden
Recently when filming with Permaculture gardener Rosina Buckman, we asked her how she managed to grow her amazing vegetables in her raised bed gardens without importing a lot of expensive soil. These...
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Aquaponics: Getting your plants to Thrive!
Over the last three months we’ve been trialling a little additive called potassium hydroxide with the regular stuff we’ve been putting into our aquaponics system and – boy has the plant growth taken...
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Creating Abundance in School Gardens
Leonie Shanahan next to a wall of snow peas in a school garden Over the last few months we’ve been filming every few weeks with Leonie Shanahan the evolution of a school garden located in Queensland’s...
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Plants that go crazy in Aquaponics
From left and clockwise, nasturtiums. cucumbers, papaya and tomatoes all grow well in aquaponics We all have our favorites. Plants that defy normal growth and even gravity and just take off like a...
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Aquaponics: The Power of Kale
Kale grows well in an Aquaponics System Australian Television gardening guru Peter Cundall was well into his eighties when he was once asked why he looked so fit and healthy? His answer was, “The last...
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Aquaponics and Sunlight
Stress is a big killer of fish. This barramundi grown in aquaponics has a fine slime coating preventing bacterial infections. Recently a friend was telling me about how difficult it was to grown...
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