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| Author: | Karey Harrison [ Sep 26th, '06, 15:38 ] |
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[font=Arial] [/font] [color=#] [/color] Members of this forum might be interested in Folke Gunther's vertical growing wall for filtering grey water. I think it could be easily adapted for aquaponics. You can download instructions for casting bricks for a concrete block vertical growing wall, or for constructing a vertical growing wall out of used car tyres at http://www.holon.se/folke/projects/open ... v_en.shtml Karey Qld |
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| Author: | Grace Like Rain [ Sep 26th, '06, 15:41 ] |
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Welcome Karey, interesting I've never heard of this... |
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| Author: | Jaymie [ Sep 26th, '06, 15:42 ] |
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thanks, I've sent it on to my brother who wants to do something with his greywater |
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| Author: | EllKayBee [ Sep 26th, '06, 16:53 ] |
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another qlder - welcome karey I'm on grey water and have been advised that it is not good for veggies, in fact we had used it but did not have good growth Ell |
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| Author: | Grace Like Rain [ Sep 26th, '06, 17:11 ] |
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yeah i would'nt use it for vegies so not sure it would work with AP but maybe a similar set up could be used as a vertical AP system (not using greywater but recirculated AP water) |
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| Author: | EllKayBee [ Sep 26th, '06, 17:26 ] |
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with you GLR - I was putting Jaymie's comment of sending the info to bro and have him doing the veggie thing Ell |
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| Author: | beeso [ Sep 26th, '06, 17:27 ] |
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i grew a half kilo tomato on greyawter that had passed thru a screen of arrowroot and a simple reed filter |
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| Author: | johnnie7au [ Sep 26th, '06, 18:33 ] |
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If you are worried about growing veggies with grey water .. eating possible contaminants and all that ... perhaps consider growing flowers! Apparently carnations are fairly well suited to hydroponics. I guess it is just a matter of finding the right flower for your system. |
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| Author: | steve [ Sep 26th, '06, 18:47 ] |
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and/or use safer personal care / household products!
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| Author: | EllKayBee [ Sep 26th, '06, 18:48 ] |
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the idea of the wall being used for AP is a good one, the way I see the setup in the link is that the grey water is being pumped through and not being pre-filtered before going to the veggies, using grey water on lawn, trees, flowers is quite acceptable (except for the smell....phew) |
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| Author: | Jaymie [ Sep 26th, '06, 18:53 ] |
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if it goes straight out to the yard it is fine, doesn't smell too much. All of our plumbing goes straight out to the yard as it is (no sewerage system here, or town water). You just use it for the decorative parts of the yard and save the "clean" water for food plants |
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| Author: | steve [ Sep 26th, '06, 19:15 ] |
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so when you say "ALL" you mean "ALL" ? |
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| Author: | creative1 [ Sep 26th, '06, 19:39 ] |
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quick hijacking-- Our greywater flows thru a maze about 30 mtrs long. Selfsewn tommies feed the chooks for months. chocmint/rose geranium/rosemary and bananas, grapefruit and flows on to nectarine and apricot... ...greywater is shower, kitchen sink, laundry I think which is why things grow so well...only. Composting dunnies are the way to go with methane extractors worm tea casings made from poop without much effort as bugs and worms do the work their disigned for and love it... another byproduct is worms which can be fed to your fish in dried form. If the food going in is clean and free of chemicals then that is what is going to come out.. C1 PS I am working towards this. |
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| Author: | Grace Like Rain [ Sep 26th, '06, 19:47 ] |
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hey c1, any chance of a pic of the 'maze'... do you just mean like a ditch dug in a maze shape... |
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| Author: | creative1 [ Sep 26th, '06, 20:00 ] |
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rammed earth maze the creek is about 600mm wide X 30 mtrs long has reeds and stuff and blue metal prefilters. pics in the morning C1 |
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