This is Going Organic. www.goingorganic.weebly.com. I am going to talk to you about making a cheap and easy portable goldfish pond for your yard. I've started using it as an easy source of organic fertilizer for the plants. I got the idea, while watching videos on aquaponics. They use fish water for fertilizing their plants in a hydroponic system. So I started scooping out the pond water and using it as liquid fertilizer for my plants. I started out with a small hard plastic fish pond in the ground in the back yard about 17 years ago. When we sold that house, I couldn't bare to go without part of the pond. I separated part of the roots from the original lily and threw it in a 5 gallon bucket with some water. At the next house, I set up a 20 gallon pot and put some sand in the bottom to anchor the plants. Then I planted the lily in the pot. I added some standard gold fish and put a lawn chair next to it with some landscaping. In the evenings, I would sit next to the pond, while I fed the fish and looked out at the woods behind the house. There is something very relaxing about a fish pond. (Even the 20 gallon size.) Recently I read about aquaponic gardens set up with growing fish. The fish wastes in the water fertilize the plants. I started scooping out my pond water to use as organic fertilizer for plants in the yard and I add it to compost. I set up this 20 gallon pot recently. I just added about 2 inches of sand to the bottom with some water. I divided the roots of my ...
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