Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Hi All,

just a quick snap of the backyard. I think we may have had enough rain this week, we have filled our new 2,500 lt rainwater tank and judging by the amount of water we have laying around we may need to look at putting in some drainage.

or dig it out a bit and get some pond liner.

I agree, perfect pond size

Evening All,

just thought we would give everyone a quick reminder that it is only 14 weeks to christmas

We have our first broccoli head appear, very exciting. Is it our imagination or does anyone else think that the leaves are very large. Sorry we have no experience in broccoli and it could be quite normal.

With this years weather we were lucky enough to be able to plant the broadbeans early. These are the dwarf variety so we are very glad not to have put them in the system.

wow , those leaves do seem really big , but hey, the broccoli is nearly ready for picking in a week or so. The leaves can be used in stir frys, so can the stalk, just peel the outer layer of bark of, it tastes great. I had broad beans in my system, and it was a happy day in the yard when I ripped them out, never got one bean off of the plants what so ever, need the frost to get the beans to form, so I was told at a later date.

Thanks Jessy never thought of using the leaves before.

I have just been in trouble as i forgot the most important photo (silly me). We are trying a small hydroponic system, too much time on our hands i think. He spent hours making it and setting it up, and what do i do, forget.

OHHHH WAY COOL, love it I would love one when other part of myself breaks away from the 'PUTER and makes one . I think it would be a good comparision between aqua and hydro

i have never seen broadies look like that. did you plant them all really close together for them to look like that? If so maybe they grew longer because they wanted more light! they look a tad leggy.

very curious.

Yep, lack of light for sure.

looks way cool though! was staring at the pic for ages thinking, "it looks like broadies, but they cant be broadies" and was scared to ask incase it was a shrub or something! then i read the text

Use to spend a lot of time checking crops of broad beans. They never look that tall. Better than safflower for walking through. You must have good soil there.

woops I was meaning the broccoli.

My broad beans are doing that too...hope I get some beans.

ROFL

the beans have heaps of flowers so i dont see why not.

Last year we found that between the weather and the weight of the bean pods the branches were heading towards the ground with some snapping. This year we thought we would fence them in with a little string.

Maybe we should cut the tips out to stop them getting any taller.

Hi Hopefulls, I found my brassics went nuts. Like most crops i spose, they essentially have a genetically determined period for growth before fruiting/flowering. My theory is bc we are constantly watering/feeding them, they grow faster in the same period than they ordinarily would. You don't get more leaves, (as this is genetically pre determined as well,) so the leaves you do get are bigger. Any how, that's what I reckon.

I have had broadies that big. Brace them to the fence with a couple ropes around if you can. It will dramatically increase ur yield if they have that little bit of support. You just need some spring wind atm and it will flatten them.

How are the fish doing?