Backyard Aquaponics
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Pics!

Pics!

New project for the newly commissioned DWC tanks is watercress! Yummy and healthy ahaha

You are outta control Bc.
Nice work.

Looking good.

I'll have to look into how watercress grows, always liked that one.

Yeah I'm excited to work with it... Be interested to see how it goes, got it yesterday (only chance), and it was 49 degrees Celsius yesterday and 45 today

That is pretty warm!

How are the fish coping with the heat?

Seem good.... Look happy and healthy!

What are you going to prepare with it? We grew it as microgreens and used it to give lunch sandwiches a mustard like kick. But I know there is a water cress soup that is kind of popular in parts of the US where it grows naturally. That is a great choice because it could go a long way in meal preparation as a soup while still the key flavor is coming from your AP onsite. Unlike tomatoes where your customers can clean you out as fast as you produce them.

I want to see the menu already! lol

Very much a lettuce replacement on sandwiches... Egg and Watercress, Prawns and Watercress etc. thinking of putting it with steak sandwich with Boccoccini cheese also. A soup, plus in healthy smoothies. If I can get it growing enough it will also be added to my AP salad greens which comes with meals. Yeah tomatoes will be an extra bonus, not something I focus on. Greens and herbs are main item for menus.

Water got to 32 at its highest, so fish seemed to handle it ok!

Have you thought about doing a microgreen bed? Over sow with a loose leaf lettuce, and you can cut if off like grass, and have a continual harvest. I got so many salads out of one bed it wasn't funny.

Hmmm sounds like an idea! I've seen some guys (one I can remember is Bigalow Farm guys) have success with seedlings in coarse sand, might be a goer as then I can use this for seedlings for DWC as well.

Mine grew well in regular gravel.



That amount grew back weekly.

Yeah I am struggling to get anything to seed in the gravel here.... Three out a heap of seeds a few weeks ago and nothing. Ever since I moved system it's been no good for direct seeding :/ .... And I'm trying to work out something other then dirt as too much damage to roots, unless I spend hours!

Raise up the level of the water a bit. If it's too low, the seeds will fall too far and have to climb too high to sprout out, and the higher ones won't get wet enough to germinate.

You can lower it down again once they are established.