Backyard Aquaponics
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Does anyone know where we can get some grape plants (seeds/runners? whatever you use) from the Queensland area?

Aquaponic grapes....Yum big juicy grapes...

Hi Jaymie,

Daley's in Kyogle (not QLD) do mail order and have grapes:
http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/fruit%20pages/grape.htm
They're a good mail order co, I know a few people who buy from them in Victoria and are happy with them...

If you get a chance, try the muscadine grape Jaymie, they are at the bottom of the list that SG posted.. A fantastic grape from the US, they are different to the normal European grape varieties, vitus vinifera. The muscadines are vitus rotundifolia, and are native to warmer areas in America... They have fruit in smaller bunches of less grapes, but the grapes are about golfball size, very sweet and aromatic flavour..

I've been trying to get hold of them for years... I did get a few seeds from someone once and got one to germinate, but I ended up losing it..

Well worth checking out...

Interestingly, I believe grapes like dry soil. The best crops come from dry years. No harm in trying AP grapes, though.

well, we'll give them a try, but if necessary, we have plenty of the dry soil too, in between the rocks

Hi again,
Found this:
http://www.growingedge.com/community/ar ... =yes&q=753
It's being done in hydro set ups so it should easily translate to AP, but... you need to get a variety that is resistent to mildew (which would be why you wanted a qld supplier - doh!) and you'd have to do that putting them into a dirt and rock garden up there anyway I would imagine

Andi :sunny:
(wandering off to think about a vineyard growing out of a really long piece of pvc...)

Grapes? Mango slushies getting old? ya need more juices for the mix?

need grapes to keep the kids away from my mangos (mine, mine, mine)

we've got 3 crates of mangos on the back verandah right now, need to put some in the fridge... Chill down the rum... where's the icecream?

My fridge is empty Jaymie.

I could help you out...

Alex and a friend made mango schnapps a couple of years ago from some "spare" mangos (25L of first grade fruit pulp...) it vanished, I don't know where it went

lol

the evaporation factor up there must be huge, lol

its really bad when you open a bottle of something refreshing, and it evaporates right before your very eyes! It happens all the time and through such a small opening in the bottle too!