Geo writes

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.
This is my first experience of usenet so its a bit strange but I`ve had

dealings
with trolls before
Very good. Can you bottom post please?

What am i going to grow? well anything that will grow in the conditions
i
guess.
That will be an ongoing experiment through all seasons.

Am i 21? i wish!
you can double that figure at least.
My football poster days are well and truly over i think.

The greenhouse is a geodesic dome, 14ft in diameter and has about 140
sq ft
floor area, a very strong and energy efficient shape.

It`s not finished yet due to the weather and family stuff but hopefully
i`ll
have it done before the decent weather arrives..i`m not in any
great rush.

I plan to use 2/5 of it as a fish room (seperated and well insulated)
with 1000
gals of water (mostly rainwater) to house my catfish.
The greenhouse part will be the 3/5 facing south with just over 160 sq
ft of
glazing.
The fish will provide the organic nutrients and irrigation for the
greenhouse
side.The plants will take out the nitrates and clean the
water for the fish.

Technically it`s called aquaponic but mother nature would call it
growing in
gravel next to a heavily stocked river

A bonus of the water is it provides thermal mass which reduces summer

temperature swings and should save some heating costs in winter.

So thats the plan, a bit unusual granted.. but it will be fun to see
what
happens.

Sounds really interesting and the sort of thing the Eden project should
be doing on a larger scale. I do like the mutual balance idea :-)

Did you know Kew had problems in the winter recently when they had
drained the large lily pond - only later did they find out the water had
been a major element of stabilising the temperature at night. Replaced
water in pond - no more problems!
--
David