Additionally, we are now producing some value-added products . We have experimented with many different types of plants - ornamentals, herbs and vegetables. Most attempts have been successful. We've grown from seed, from seedlings, from cuttings. We've produced food crops, rooted cuttings, fresh cut herbs, and become our own supplier of starts for flowering basket sales.
Plants grow in half to one-third the time required for plants grown by conventional methods.
A healthy bacterial culture is a necessity in this system and the limit on how many fish you can maintain will be gaited by the health and growth rate of your bacteria. They need warmth, moisture, dark and oxygen. All these are present in our system except for the surface area of the growing beds. Plants alone do not purify the water for the fish. They only take up the nutrients that the bacteria put out after they work on and convert the fish wastes.