Keep Pests Like Moles in Yard and Garden Away From Your Plants
Keep Pests Like Moles in Yard and Garden Away From Your Plants
Getting rid of moles in yard and gardens can be a very frustrating experience. Gophers can be fairly easy to trap, but in my experience, moles seem to have a way of outsmarting traps that would easily catch a gopher. This article will not tell you how to make the moles go away, but it will teach you how to grow a garden that moles will not bother.
This form of gardening may be growing in popularity faster than any other method. Instead of using the old methods that are plagued by harden pests like moles, gophers, slugs and snails, this method eliminates these problems. One of the reasons that garden pests are such a problem is, you are likely trying to grow something that doesn't belong there. And in order to get the plants to grow there, you will be in a constant battle with nature.
When you plant in the ground, you are putting yourself at a disadvantage from the beginning. Working with soil is a lot of work, and nature already has a lot of experience from growing other plants and animals that we call pests, in that spot for thousands or millions of years. Aquaponics is a way to grow plants in an environment that works with nature instead of against it, and saving you from most of the work.
Many garden plants really do not need soil and will grow just fine without it. As long as the roots get plenty of water, nutrients and in some cases oxygen, they can grow very well. Hydroponics is a way to grow plants without soil. Bu typically, hydroponics uses chemical fertilizers and tries to create a sterile growing environment. The results are often vegetables that are low in flavor, or have a chemical flavor, and it can be a lot of work keeping the nutrient levels just right in the water.
Unlike hydroponics, aquaponics is an organic way to grow plants without soil. This method can be much easier than growing plants with hydroponics or in the soil. You can grow plants faster and you can grow several times more in a smaller amount of space. Plants grow healthy and have the quality of being organically grown. And all this without the soil pests like moles, gophers, slugs, snails, weeds and more.
Aquaponics works similar to hydroponics, but also combines aquaculture (raising fish). Before you start to think raising fish sounds like a job in itself, it really doesn't have to be. Fish are simple creatures to raise, especially in an aquaponics system, and make an excellent companion to plants.
When water from a fish tank is given to plants, they grow amazingly well from all the organic fertilizer from the fish wastes. And plant also do an amazing job at filtering these wastes out of the water and keeping the water healthy for the fish. In a system where water is recirculated between a fish tank and plant grow beds, the fish feed the plants and the plants clean the water for the fish.
After the initial setup, this system creates a biological system between fish, plants, and beneficial bacteria that will mostly take care of itself for many years. Gardening becomes less about weeding, digging, fertilizing, watering, fighting pests, and all the never ending work, and becomes more about feeding fish, planting plants and harvesting. You end up doing less work and more of the fun parts. Plus you get fish. You can raise them to eat or just to keep and watch them grow.
Breeding and selling fish can make a profit, or at least cover the cost of fish food and the whole system. You can grow tilapia, catfish, bass, trout or other food fish, aquarium fish, koi and other ornamental fish. A lot of people have fish ponds in their yards or fish in their homes. With aquaponics, you can put the fish to work for you growing fresh organic food.
Learn more about aquaponics and how you can set up your own low cost highly productive system. This aquaponics how to guide will walk you step by step through the process of setting the system up and getting the most out of it for many years.
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