Godney Aquaponics


Godney Aquaponics
In the village of Godney, with the beautiful back drop of the Glastonbury Tor, Melv and Sal are embarking on a new venture. Fed up with the poor quality of veg in the shops, they have the ambition to set up an aquaponics system to provide fresh vegetables and salad crops for the village, and with a little help from their hens a supply of fresh free range eggs too.


What is Aquaponics??


What is Aquaponics??
Aquaponics is a sustainable method of producing quality food with minimal external inputs. It is a system that combines conventional aquaculture (e.g. fish in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. Water from the aquaculture system is fed to the hydroponic system where the by-products are broken down and are utilised by the plants as nutrients, and the water is then re-circulated back to the aquaculture system.


Monday 8 July 2019

Its time for garlic

Produce that grows below the ground, like Jerusalem artichokes, carrots, potatoes and of course garlic always generate that feeling of expectation and excitement as you never quite know what lies beneath the soil!!

Well this time of year is garlic time and this week ours was ready to be pulled. Garlic can always be a little misleading as on the surface the remaining leafy grow looks tired, dead and spent. As I put my fork in the ground I didn't expect to reveal any significant bulbs at all, as the plants had had know care or attention at all, but much to my delight this is what I found...


The biggest garlic bulbs we have ever grown!! Perfect white bulbs with bulbous cloves - just amazing and there wasn't just one there was 100% success rate...


All the bulbs were the same and it was hard to find a small one amongst them - almost the size of a plastic plant label across, I gave them pride of place in the polytunnel to dry.


Just can't wait to try them! :o)

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