Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Thanks for the tip, even the bottom 100mm of my beds will save 1.8m3 of clay around several hundred dollars. I like it!

Well the results of top dressing gravel gb's with clay have been great. So far every thing seems to be coming up and doing well. I have a few 380ltrs that are still gravel or river rock and don't have many plants growing. The top dressed gb is doing great. Have not had any problems with the media getting messy. And the growth has been an improvment. Will end up doing all of the gb's.

See you've got a Goji berry plant there Duff... ever grown it before?

No. But I like to try new plants. Only rule is I don't water nothing I can't eat. If you can't eat it then it needs to have other uses. Like thorns or teeth.

I like to leave the new plants in pots sunk into the top of gb's to see how they like the water before transplanting them fully into the system. Some don't like the salt but most don't seem to care. Also good to water other plants with AP water to see how they handle it. Got an olive and mango tree that have been watered with AP water for a couple of months so they may end up in the system as well.

My old man's factory was robbed a couple of times. then he let the blackberry which he was killing as a weed, get out of control on the 'dead' side of the building. Nobody ever broke in there again! but it did make it hard to retrieve the footy at times!

i remember wagging school and sitting in blackberry bushes eating them by the bushful.... ahhh they were the days...

roses under windows are helpfull deterants too..

grow and nuture things that have 2 or more uses to you.... food, mulch, protection, pretty...


havent worked out where kids fit in there.....