--- product_id: 3775087 title: "Aquaponic Gardening: Discover the Dual Benefits of Raising Fish and Plants Together (Idiot's Guides) (Complete Idiot's Guide to)" price: "23852CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/3775087-aquaponic-gardening-discover-the-dual-benefits-of-raising-fish-plants store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Organic, chemical-free growth Dual fish & plant cultivation Closed-loop water recycling Aquaponic Gardening: Discover the Dual Benefits of Raising Fish and Plants Together (Idiot's Guides) (Complete Idiot's Guide to) **Price:** 23852CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🌱 Dive into the future of gardening—where fish meet foliage for a fresher, greener lifestyle! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Aquaponic Gardening: Discover the Dual Benefits of Raising Fish and Plants Together (Idiot's Guides) (Complete Idiot's Guide to) - **How much does it cost?** 23852CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/3775087-aquaponic-gardening-discover-the-dual-benefits-of-raising-fish-plants) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Space-Smart Gardening:** Grow fresh vegetables and fish in compact indoor or outdoor spaces—perfect for urban professionals. - • **Year-Round Harvest Potential:** Extend your growing season with smart heating, cooling, and automation techniques. - • **Eco-Friendly & Cost-Effective:** Save money and reduce your carbon footprint by cultivating your own organic food sustainably. - • **Sustainable Closed-Loop System:** Harness fish waste to naturally fertilize your plants with zero soil and minimal water use. - • **Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide:** From setup to maintenance, master aquaponics with clear instructions and expert tips for every skill level. ## Overview The Complete Idiot's Guide to Aquaponic Gardening by Meg Stout is a beginner-friendly, expert-backed manual that teaches you how to create and maintain a sustainable, soil-free garden combining fish and plants. This guide covers everything from system design and species selection to pest control and seasonal adjustments, empowering you to grow organic produce and fish efficiently in small spaces while reducing environmental impact. ## Description Sustainable and organic, aquaponics gardening is the most efficient method of raising both plants and fish—cultivate an entire meal with your self-sustaining aquaponics system! Aquaponics is a way to garden by combining fish and plants in a garden with no soil. In this closed system, the water is constantly recycled and the nutrients needed to nurture the plants are derived from the fish waste. This is a great way to grow your own vegetables, without chemicals, in a relatively small space. Feel good about the fish and vegetables you’re eating by harvesting them from your own backyard. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Aquaponic Gardening is your comprehensive guide to this farming method, from choosing a setup, to selecting fish and vegetables, to maintaining your system. You’ll be pleased with the variety of species that your aquaponic garden can support and how easy it is to maintain. In addition to everything you need to know to run a healthy aquaponic garden and care for both the vegetables and fish, there are step-by-step plans with photos for building the appropriately sized system for your needs. Engineer and blogger Meg Stout expertly explains how to garden indoors and how to resize and move a garden inside or outside, depending on the season, to produce an abundant supply of edible, organically-raised vegetables and fish. Review: A User Friendly Step-By-Step Guide - In this book, Meg Stout provides an accessible step-by-step guide for those new to aquaponics. If you are just starting out or mildly interested in the subject, this book will help you understand the how-to basics of aquaculture and the science behind why these techniques work. For example, Stout explains everything you should take into account for each step of the way (lighting, tanks, location, indoor/outdoor, etc.). For a beginner's guide, this book provides the reader with an abundance of options. This guide is also particularly helpful in helping you determine what you should plant and how to plant it, along with the pros and cons of different techniques, plants, tanks, and settings. Unlike other beginner guides, Stout stresses the importance of long-term maintenance, and she explains techniques of how to elicit seeds for the next harvest, safely control different types of pests, use fish waste as fertilizer, and extend growing the season. Stout does not assume that all growers are alike and thus provides a wide variety of options to meet any new grower's needs. For instance, she addresses a variety of untypical situations, such as what growers should do when public electricity and water are unavailable. Below are the chapter topics (I wrote this up before seeing it is available by clicking the cover photo). I hope you find it helpful: Ch. 1. - What Is Your Vision? Ch. 2. - Giving Your Plants the Right Light Ch. 3. - Water: Vital to All Forms of Life Ch. 4. - Fish Tanks, Grow Beds, and Plumbing Ch. 5. - Making Water Move: Pumps and Standpipes Ch. 6. - Growing in Gravel: Using Media Beds Ch. 7. - Flooding and Draining a Media Bed Ch. 8. - Taking Advantage of Vertical Space Ch. 9. - Growing in Water Ch. 10. - Making Fertilizer Out of Fish Waste Ch. 11. - Which Plants Grow Best? Ch. 12. - Starting, Planting, and Propagating Plants Ch. 13. - Fish-Safe Pest Control Ch. 14. - Growing Abundant Amounts of Healthy Produce Ch. 15. - Adding Fish to Your Aquaponic Garden Ch. 16. - Other Useful Animals Ch. 17. - Taking Care of Your Fish Ch. 18. - Extend Your Growing Season with a Greenhous Ch. 19. - Heating and Cooling Your Garden Ch. 20. - Automating Your Garden Ch. 21. - When You Can't Use Public Electricity Ch. 22. - Maintaining Your Garden Ch. 23. - Integrated Aquaponic Systems Ch. 24. - Do-It-Yourself Systems Please note: if you are interested in going into more depth with Acquaculture, I recently received a copy of Freshwater Aquaculture: A Handbook for Small Scale Fish Culture in North America for review. The book is a reprint from the 1990s, so there are parts that are a bit dated if you want to be cutting edge, but it is extremely well illustrated and diagrammed,accessible to those new to aquaculture, and was long the definitive book on the topic. Review: Great resource for aquaponics - This is a great resource for anyone interested in getting started in aquaponics, as well as a valuable reference for those who have long been bit by the aquapon bug. Meg Stout has a writing style that makes the information easy to absorb and work from. Her endeavors in aquaponics have focused largely on showing people how they can grow fish and plants together at home without having to spend large amounts of money, and this comes through clearly in her book. Don't let the 'Idiot's Guide' in the title fool you. Meg has done an outstanding job of covering the necessary topics including ready made kits & inexpensive DIY systems, water chemistry, selecting fish & plants, fish-safe pest control, heating/cooling, and proper lighting considerations. -Jesse Hull, Imagine Aquaponics ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #634,379 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #55 in Hydroponic Gardening #59 in Fisheries & Aquaculture (Books) #503 in Vegetable Gardening | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 188 Reviews | ## Images ![Aquaponic Gardening: Discover the Dual Benefits of Raising Fish and Plants Together (Idiot's Guides) (Complete Idiot's Guide to) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61JD6TaVXjL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A User Friendly Step-By-Step Guide *by B***R on April 5, 2013* In this book, Meg Stout provides an accessible step-by-step guide for those new to aquaponics. If you are just starting out or mildly interested in the subject, this book will help you understand the how-to basics of aquaculture and the science behind why these techniques work. For example, Stout explains everything you should take into account for each step of the way (lighting, tanks, location, indoor/outdoor, etc.). For a beginner's guide, this book provides the reader with an abundance of options. This guide is also particularly helpful in helping you determine what you should plant and how to plant it, along with the pros and cons of different techniques, plants, tanks, and settings. Unlike other beginner guides, Stout stresses the importance of long-term maintenance, and she explains techniques of how to elicit seeds for the next harvest, safely control different types of pests, use fish waste as fertilizer, and extend growing the season. Stout does not assume that all growers are alike and thus provides a wide variety of options to meet any new grower's needs. For instance, she addresses a variety of untypical situations, such as what growers should do when public electricity and water are unavailable. Below are the chapter topics (I wrote this up before seeing it is available by clicking the cover photo). I hope you find it helpful: Ch. 1. - What Is Your Vision? Ch. 2. - Giving Your Plants the Right Light Ch. 3. - Water: Vital to All Forms of Life Ch. 4. - Fish Tanks, Grow Beds, and Plumbing Ch. 5. - Making Water Move: Pumps and Standpipes Ch. 6. - Growing in Gravel: Using Media Beds Ch. 7. - Flooding and Draining a Media Bed Ch. 8. - Taking Advantage of Vertical Space Ch. 9. - Growing in Water Ch. 10. - Making Fertilizer Out of Fish Waste Ch. 11. - Which Plants Grow Best? Ch. 12. - Starting, Planting, and Propagating Plants Ch. 13. - Fish-Safe Pest Control Ch. 14. - Growing Abundant Amounts of Healthy Produce Ch. 15. - Adding Fish to Your Aquaponic Garden Ch. 16. - Other Useful Animals Ch. 17. - Taking Care of Your Fish Ch. 18. - Extend Your Growing Season with a Greenhous Ch. 19. - Heating and Cooling Your Garden Ch. 20. - Automating Your Garden Ch. 21. - When You Can't Use Public Electricity Ch. 22. - Maintaining Your Garden Ch. 23. - Integrated Aquaponic Systems Ch. 24. - Do-It-Yourself Systems Please note: if you are interested in going into more depth with Acquaculture, I recently received a copy of Freshwater Aquaculture: A Handbook for Small Scale Fish Culture in North America for review. The book is a reprint from the 1990s, so there are parts that are a bit dated if you want to be cutting edge, but it is extremely well illustrated and diagrammed,accessible to those new to aquaculture, and was long the definitive book on the topic. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great resource for aquaponics *by T***S on April 22, 2013* This is a great resource for anyone interested in getting started in aquaponics, as well as a valuable reference for those who have long been bit by the aquapon bug. Meg Stout has a writing style that makes the information easy to absorb and work from. Her endeavors in aquaponics have focused largely on showing people how they can grow fish and plants together at home without having to spend large amounts of money, and this comes through clearly in her book. Don't let the 'Idiot's Guide' in the title fool you. Meg has done an outstanding job of covering the necessary topics including ready made kits & inexpensive DIY systems, water chemistry, selecting fish & plants, fish-safe pest control, heating/cooling, and proper lighting considerations. -Jesse Hull, Imagine Aquaponics ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ OK as far as it goes *by J***W on June 28, 2014* This is a relatively thorough BASIC guide to Aquaponics but it leaves a lot of questions unanswered. It gives a good explanation of what aquaponics is and why someone would want to participate and good basic explanation of how things work. It then gets rather light on specifics such as all the different options there are for aquaria setups, garden containers, etc. However the greatest shortfall I found was (as I suspect it is intended to be) it is too general in scope. The issues faced by someone in Minnesota are not the same as someone in the southern coast. The choices of fish are very cursory--one of the significant advantages of aquaponics is the available protein provided by harvesting mature fish as well as vegetables. Lots of space spent on goldfish and koi. And the author really does not address large yard systems which are available widely. If you are looking for a primer as to what aquaponics is and why you would even consider learning more, this is an excellent book and a very inexpensive way to learn about an exciting area. If you are looking for a detailed guide to step-by-step lead you through deciding how big a tank and a plant field, what parts to buy, what fish to raise, how to handle problems of all year tanks when temperatures range from 15 to 100 degrees, this is not sufficiently detailed. 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