Backyard Aquaponics
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hahahahahah, I just watched your trout feeding vid Faye thats awesome!

Man, how much feed are you left with on the floor after that onslaught!

Love it.

That is better, had to work out how to rotate the pic from my phone, in the meantime I mistakenly rotated the whole desktop Aah doh!

Haha you didn't see my sidekick didya Charlie?:grin: No waste here.

Awww so cute Faye. Is it a american staffy? Mrs Charlie wants one of those soooooo badly!

You know anyone with pups?

You can have this one Charlie :grin: Yes she is a (ditsy) staffy, but she has lots of fun here when her master (our son) is not here.

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SOLD!!!

Thats a nice Paleo looking plate you have there mmmm

Palaeolithic Man had smoked trout ? Maybe. Cooking it over an open wood fire would be part way there I guess.....

Paleo man with a BBQ and an Iphone

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Tonights dinner, smoked trout risotto.
Ingredients
1 clove Garlic - mine is still growing
Ap parsley
1/4 red onion
1 leek dirt grown - cut to come again
300g Arborio rice
1100 mls chicken stock
200ml Chardonnay - and same again for me- but whos measuring anyway
200g smoked home grown trout
Spinach leaves handful bought from the Spudshed coz mine are babies - found some hiding but it was too late
1/4 cup chives -ap grown
Zest and squeeze of a homegrown lemon
50g parmesan
Salt and peeper as required
Eddy says it was almost as good as my mushroom risotto which he just loves

That looks really nice Faye. I've only ever cooked a risotto once(seafood), but i think i will try that after i have a harvest of trout.



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I was once young and stupid, i'm not so young now

I found some good guys in amongst my brassicas the other day. Now often at this time of year we are starting to see aphids in and around the garden, but before long you may also notice that some of the aphids appear to be swollen and resemble a brown papery look. If you look closer you may also notice a hole, which is where the parasitic wasp has emerged. A tiny wasp lays it egg inside an aphid and as the wasp grows it turns the aphid in to nothing but a papery brown mummy. The white specs that you see are the shed nymph skins as the aphid goes through its moult. Predators such as ladybirds will also start to appear, so try to resisit the urge to take matters in to your own hands and watch the wonders of nature unfold. Other critters that prey on aphids are lacewing larvae, they appear like a dropping and pile aphid bodies on their back as they move slowly around, this way they are camoflauged and ignored by predators, clever little things.

Surprise, I went out looking around and to feed the fish and look what I found hiding under a leaf, so I left it open to the sun to ripen further, yummy.
But then I found plenty more to photograph.

Another sandwich tomato ripening.
Eggplant starting to flower, I think Spring is in the air.

Isn't nature artistic, the pea flowers are just everywhere, after seing the first ones a couple of days ago. The beans are just as interesting the way they carry their seed coats with the new growth.

The broccoli heads are beginning to fill out now.

Looks like we will be eating some broccoli this week and the snow peas might be almost ready too. Add to that a chinese cabbage and I can see a stirfry coming right up.
Here is a pic of what things looked like yesterday morning before work.
Late planting os some brassicas, beetroot seedlings going off and beans starting to go crazy plus the pea flowers are everywhere. The trout are eating heaps growing nicely.
We had a lovely coconut red barramundi curry this week with Dandm when they delivered us a lovely pair of girl rabbits - We think they are Absolutely Fabulous and have named them Patsy and Eddy. Patsy is the white one. We would like to breed them in the future. They are loving the excess parsley, celery and silverbeet.
Yeah, yeah I know what you are thinking - we will take the girls for a special visit and then will have babies a month later.

Neat and perfect as always Faye...

beautiful