Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Time for a bit of fun. We all know that aquaponics is very productive, it's time to see just how productive peoples systems are. We are offering a $250 BYAP Shop voucher for the BIGGEST fruit and/or vegetable harvest. There will also be a $50 spot prize for the best effort or most unusual vegetable. Think you can grow a big carrot? Have you grown a huge tomato? Are your spring onions looking more like Leeks? Is your bean plant 20m long?

You will need to provide photographic evidence so that everyone knows that it's been grown in an aquaponics system, and so we all know what it weighs, or it's length etc. Also it would be good if the photos are a reasonable size as ultimately we will publicize the winner in the magazine. The biggest and best entrants picked by the mods and admin will then be put up for a public vote by members.

Entries can be in the form of a single vegetable or fruit, or a combined weight or size of a whole crop.

As an example, here's a beetroot we grew here at the shop that weighs over 1kg.

Thought I might be able to match that Joel... but mine only came in at 760gm...

So I'll just have to enter the lettuce "christmas tree"....

So how tall is your lettuce? Shame it hit the roof.

It's about 1.7 mtr... not counting the root ball...

are there different catagories ....you know...root vegitables...leafy vegies....fruits.....flowers....and stuff......

how long does comp go EB, I reckon I will kill it with a Tomato this year

Pull out all the plants and put in one giant pumpkin plant.

Speaking of pumpkins:



Dont know the combined weight, but they were yummy

Hope thats not from one plant. I finished one of those pumpkins the other week and decided to plant all the seed from it.

Hum, I've not been all that lucky with big veggies though the jicama sometimes get pretty big. Anyone know what the biggest single fish has been so far?

Big broccoli grown here at the shop, we've had a few about this size.

I better go get pics of my monster spring onions

I've been taking these out when they looked like a good size or someone wanted one.

Darn... never thought of that... pulled some monster spring onions just the other day...

Just remembered the melons