Aquaponics: From Beginner to Expert - Hydroponics & Aquaponics Double Book Bundle - Exact Blueprint to Aquaponic & Hydroponic Organic Gardening From ... For Beginners, Hydroponics for Beginners)

The idea of aquaponics is fasinating. Growing fish and soil-free plants in one little enviroment. It is so easy and efficient, much more economical than hydroponics. This book takes you to your aquaponic garden journey from explaining what aquaponics is and how it works. After you have a basic idea how it works it guides you how to create your garden. It is really straightforward and pictures makes it much easier too. There's much more on monitoring, balancing, maintenance and so on... Second part is about hydroponics, which I'm not that into right now and bought it just because it was a bundle, so won't share my opinion on that one.

This book includes everything and anyone interested in either aquaponics or hydroponics will need. I liked the lists of plants you can grow and which fish would be best for different situations. I have been interested but had no idea everything that you could actually grow. I also appreciated the description of everything I would need to plan and watch out for when setting up these systems. This will be very beneficial to troubleshoot and save me time and money. Although I read through everything, I will continue to reference this book frequently when attempting to set up my system.

This is a two book (each small) set. It is well-written and has some nice graphics to explain different set-ups of each of the two soilless gardening techniques that the books cover.In the hydroponics book, the author does a decent job of describing how to build a couple of different growing systems. However, in the aquaponics book you are left on your own if you want to DIY. Still, the author provides great tips about how to succeed with an aquaponics system (such as needing to let bacteria grow in the water before adding the fish – that was new to me!). And he also explains each system in reasonable detail, as well as the benefits for both kinds of systems.If you want to get started on the basics of either aquaponics or hydroponics (or both!) – assuming you’re not looking for a step-by-step guide to a homemade aqua. system – this book will help.

It's an okay introduction, but it's not as advanced as I'd want if I was actually going to start up an aquaponics system. It is a decent book as an introduction.Aquaponics, it turns out, is not a self renewable system. You have to buy young fish every cycle. You can't raise root crops, or any crops really that contain much in the way of caloric value. You have to buy fish food continually. You will need a greenhouse (basically) to house the system.A better system would be rabbits and a dirt garden. Rabbits can be easily bred (you only have to buy them the first time unlike the fish) and fed from the garden and from natures bounty of plants (you don't have to buy food all the time). You can grow anything in a dirt garden including corn and potatoes. It is much closer to a self renewable cyclic system than aquaponics. If you want to you can build a green house for year round gardening, but it isn't a requirement if you want to grow seasonally, unlike the aquaponic system..

Wish I had the books when I started growing in the 1970's it would have saved me years of slow growth and poor fruit yield, the books are for anyone who has little or no dirt to grow in or it's just to cold year round...

Too short and it seems that the author is using big fonts to increase the number of pages. The information in it is useful though, but that can be obtained very easily from the web.

Seems like a good resource for the price. didn't read the hydroponics part but the Aquaponics had a lot of info a newb like me can use. Probably not for the seasoned grower or if you've already read a book or two on the subject.

An excellent book for the people who love gardening. These books outline aquaphonics and hydrophonics methods of gardening in detail. I was amazed to find the depth of details mentioned in this book. Benefits of aquaphonics and hydrophonics when compared to traditional gardening methods are clearly explained, including minute details.

Was expecting much detailed information with modern techniques ... however book covers basic required information

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Its for a Xmas gift good

This book fell very far short of what the product description and Amazon.com reviews led me to expect. At best, this book is a shallow overview of aquaponics and hydroponics. I already had a good idea of what's involved in making an aquaponic system from watching many Youtube videos and reading websites. This book does not provide any plan or blueprint. There are some diagrams, but Youtube videos give a clearer impression of what's involved.Just to give one example, this book never mentions chelated iron. There is no index or glossary. The author occasionally gives advice like "do some research" to find out what options are possible. My reason for buying this book was to find out what options exist, not to be told to look somewhere else to try to find information. Other times he suggests that the best source of information is someone selling aquaponics equipment. That might be true, but I'd rather have a more impartial source of information, and I bought this book because I wanted a book that's a source of information.The text is large with a lot of white space on every page. I suppose that means it's easy to read, but my point is that the quantity of text is small for the number of pages.