Backyard Aquaponics
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Looking really good there.

The turbulence, worms and bacteria all do their bit. As long as the particle size is reduced before it goes into the grow bed I am fine. When time permits I will make it four mineralization drums as before.

Thanks all

I just went thru my worm farm (cant believe i ended up fingers in!!) and pulled out another 50 or so worms and spread them thru the system, noticed plenty of bsf larvae in there too, need to finish the biopod to harvest them beuties!

Wondering if i can just convert my worm farm into a BSF biopod, these little guys just collected themselves! Dont need a worm farm anymore anyway - thats what the GBs are for!

worm tea is working fine as a substitute - solitary trout is still going (dont think its eating anything tho).

Looking good.

Did the trout take to the BSFL?

Thanks col - just gave the bsfl to the chooks, they loved em! Will try on the trout next year tho.

Problem with my tomatoes is loads of green growth, but not many flowers or fruit:



so i think maybe i need to switch from worm tea to flowering seasol.

plenty of cucumbers tho, super sweet and juicy!

The flowering seasol should do the trick, I think it has plenty of potassium in it.

Taken from the website out of interest. Seasol power feed, flowering and fruit.

W/V: Nitrogen (N) 10.0%. Phosphorus (P) 2.0%. Potassium (K) 9.0%

There are other potassium options if it doesn't give them a boost.

A few update pics - i've taken hundreds during the year, but posting isn't a strong point!

Collecting some of the strawberry runners in dirt pots for the market


Those pics were last week, Im now in the middle of a big upgrade in the 'ponics, brand new wife approved deck and gb's expansion - complete with a water feature for her to look at while i go "blah blah standpipe, blah dutch bucket, blah blah releasing from mineralization, blah blah"

She even asked about my IBS (IBC's) and the BCF's (bsfl)! gotta love her!

8 foot plus plants, and the tomatoes are huge!




these are chiapas wild - tiny currant size, but the plants love the 'ponics, there are some ripe ones in the bottom left of the pic

nice big chillies


and our goldfish were chasing eachother around on christmas day, so made some mops, collected the eggs, and now we have a couple of hundred baby goldfish!!! so they live in here

Good job on getting the eggs, I saw some of mine chasing each other, and i put in the mop, but didn't get babies.

Let us know how they go.

Where do you sell the strawberry runners?

Thanks - 4 different broods hatched, there would have been many more but i was a bit slow to realise how fast they all swarmed in to munch on the eggs! they took close to 2 weeks to hatch, and i nearly gave up on the first lot when i spotted the fry - had to look up baby goldfish pics cause they look a lot like mozzie wriglers!

Havn't tried selling any runners yet, but i bought them as 4 little polish strawberry plants from marion markets 3 years ago, and now there must be over 200, and all growing runners! so i figured i might try the market too...

You could try them on gumtree.

The people will come to you.