Backyard Aquaponics
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How are things in your neck of the woods? You doing alright?

Well in the last couple of days we got 4" of rain and it is nearly washing me away. I also got one of the doors in the big opening made and installed today. Some thing strange with the weather, it just barely quit raining and the humidity changed drastically. It was reading 98& when the rain was happening and less than 4 hours later it was reading 41% and the ground really started drying up at least on the surface. Big change real quick.

Great looking hoop house Don, nicely done

I wanted to thank you for all your pictures. I was looking through for trellis designs and such and I really like yours. The hoophouse is looking good and the baby is, of course, adorable!

I salvaged a few dying plants from the dirt garden and put them in to the GB hoping for a little Nitrate usage and lo and behold some of them are thriving. I have some cabbages and cauliflowers coming up and I have some other stuff I planted that is coming up now also. I have started feeding again sorta regular. I have 85 blue gills in the FT and am feeding them a hand full every day the temp gets over 45 and they seem to like to eat it up so may get to doing more feed soon. I sure do not want to over do it and cause a spike till these plants get to going a bit better. I still have a whole in the end of the Hoop House. I have both doors built and one is installed and hope to install the other one tomorrow. The temps get to 10 or 15 deg warmer in the Hoop House when the sun shines. Hope it gets better when I get the other door hung up. I'm still having too much rain problem. I hate walking around in the mud. I was moving a lot of dirt around so I would be out of the mud but it rains to much to move much dirt. Just makes a muddy mess.

What are you planning for ventilation in the hoop house?

I plan to be able to leave the doors open when it gets hot. I alos plan to have a vent in the square above the doors in both ends.

Today I noticed the leaves on my broccoli plant are looking like they been chewed on. I found out why also. Here are some pics. I tried for some really close ups. I don't have anything by alcohol to get rid of them right now.


EB how do you adjust the size of the picture resizer from windows power toys. I finally got it to download and install but it makes pictures in medium to be 800 x 602 which will not work. I can not find any thing to change the size it changes to.

hard to tell by the photo, but looks fungal to me.
Might be secondary infection though...

http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/
After its installed you just right click on the photo and choose Resize Pictures

I use that one too, its easy as pie

it looks as there aphids, but the munching would be a caterpillar or leaf hoppers, plus the white dust looks powdery mildew, this is exactly what I've been trough on my broccoli leaves! good luck

what do you do for control of these bugs. I do not have any thing to use at the moment. I would just pull them up but I do not have enough plants in the system anyway.

i'd try bt, or diatomaceous earth

The Bt will work for the caterpillars. For the aphids -- ladybugs.