Backyard Aquaponics
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I see what you mean Matt.
Yes, we are lucky to be in god's own country, Kerala. It lies closer to the equator, yet bestowed with a pleasant and equable climate through out the year.

Hi NA



I'll second scotty's tips
It's not about worrying about seasons in AP, about profit on your AP advantedge, by being first on the market with "localy grown" with seasonal crops. and maybe also last ?
Sure is a "price winner" (most profitable plants) around here, we can get anything 365 ,but localy grown is abaout season, prices are at peek first/last 10-20 days, and all gets sold out.

cheers

I was re-looking at what you and Scotty say. There are too less local produce to take advantage of crop timing. Everything is being imported from Tamilnadu, our neighboring state. We can get anything 365 too, it is more or less the same. They sell everything by direct marketing, plenty of shop-on-wheels with imported veggies.

I will look into these points once again and maybe need to closely scrutinize the import pattern and pricing variations.

Thanks for the valuable tips, SolTun. I wanted to ask, what does SolTun means?

Sol means Sun, and are also the 3 first letters in my family name
Tun means yard, and are the 3 last letters in my wifes family name

put together Like SolTun it means "Sunny yard" wich we decided to call our farm, wich is located in the county where it is most suny days (no clouds), in Norway, on avarege thru, cours of or in a year, for the last 300Y, or so?, on record.

cheers

Black eyed peas and crowder peas should be a high dollar crop most anywhere. Green tea is not only a very healthy caffeinated alternative to standard black tea, but it is also a home remedy for gout and arthritis, and a good crop for cash flow. Green tea is also full of antioxidants to prevent cancer.

One of my ideas is to turn a large part of forested land on my property into pecan orchard. What I am going to try is growing up some pecan tree saplings to near fruit bearing size in the aquaponic system to transplant at adulthood into the soil. The idea is to make fruit bearing pecan trees in a couple of short years instead of the decade it normally takes.

Hi NA you might want to look at trus tomatos and grow them in a way they grow onto a trellis away from the gb so you can maximise the use of your gb and they dont block the sun light for other plants

Very interesting, Sunny Yard. You mean.. no rains in Norway?

I will check on Black eyed peas and crowder peas if there is good demand in the market.

I think we need more space to grow tea, will look into it.

I dont know anything about pecans.. but what difference it would make if you grow trees in AP and transplanting to soil at fruit bearing phase. Can you please explain?

Thanks for the tip, Frank! we will try growing a few trusses for our own use and will put them on trellis.

We are not salad eating people, so there would not be much demand for trusses, we think so.