Backyard Aquaponics
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garden demolished.........shade stuffed...barra cold need to go and find reinforcments to get the shade back up

Gen sets don't hold a charge

I see you still got power Jessy, that will sure help being able to sleep in ac when it hot and humid after the storm. good luck!

"Gen sets don't hold a charge"

Take it this is some battery thing not a real generator?

Phew.... Bit of work ahead then setting up and planting again..

They just showed pics on the news, your wettest January day ever they reckon.

The air cons all tripped out.....tryed to turn the power off at the mains but it sparked waiting for a sparky to sort it out

A heap of patience is going to be needed here to get the garden back to a healthy state...fish are fine...

Rant : poeple driving around after a big blow, looking at your sorry state of affairs.....they just gork and stare...never stopping to ask if your OK, or in need of a hand....just giggs...really annoys me to no end

Looks like them growbeds and stands are cyclone rated...

where to start ?????.....going to take down the poly pipe dome for the shade...and use star pickets bolted together to stretch shade across.....same as scott put up in his system.....

need to start to germinate seed in the spare bathroom...black it out....

Just need a bit of spare time got to love cyclones, made such a mess in such a short time and the clean up takes a bit.

some one please help ......I am at a loss as what to germinater from seed in the middle of summer...the only two I have got going are sunflowers and Bean Borlotti.....

I have a big drawer full of diffrent seeds from the Diggers Club....but would love any suggestions...anything growing in there right now would look a damn site better than just looking at hydroton ( not that hydroton isn't amazing ..... all my visiters love to run there hands through it )

hi Jessy this link is a free site you will have to join up and you get a monthly planting guide for your area
reminders@gardenate.com

http://www.edenseeds.com.au/content/planting.asp
also has a bit of info on the tropics

F&F glad to see you are back
and with info as per usual

Oh too good, thankyou...

Ohhh wow , thanks guys, I am in planting heaven....just taken out all the guess work...

Ok now for anouther question...my capsicans and actually everything for that matter seems to grow so slowly it seems of late... any ideas

pH reads 7.2

any ideas

Could be the heat.

I throw seeds in all the time and don't worry what time of year it is. I might have to check out F&D's link also.

Just set up the new pump from Age of Aquariums and I just don't feel comfortable about it at all, if one line drops out then no air pumps through the tank, just pumps out the vent open....

lesson learn before the hard way , if something in an AP system is a concern, either change it back or make it fool proof.....might set back up two of the other pumps supplied from BYAP for the time being.

And the wooden air blocks don't work at all and the tank cleaner I bought only fits to an inside tap fitting...doesn't fit to an out side hose piece.......oh the joys of buying on line

I hooked up a main 19mm poly pipe and used the screw in sprayer and driper bits for gardens. They even have a small black pipe you can connect and push the air stones into the other end. You don't have to worry about them slipping off. And I didn't like the wood air stones. My guess is you need a lot of pressure to get them to work.