Backyard Aquaponics
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we are slowly getting there...

Ripping apart the buckled dirt garden was not fun
Still need to clean out the rest of the dirt but a lot did go into a 3/4 IBC dirt bed

left over IBC is now a dirt garden and will have cucumbers, rock melon and blue berries

and not to have too much wastage my wife used the left over cages to help protect the new seedlings and seeds from the bird and chooks!!

You should make that leftover ibc a wicking bed

too late... i did think about it but honestly couldn't be bothered

Your mad man. Wicking beds are so easy to make and plants grow ten times better in them. You could grow a bag of potatoes in a bed that size.
Just fill the bottom third with large scoria, cover with shade cloth and then fill with dirt, drill an over flow hole at the top of the scoria level, Done

oh well... lol

maybe the next one (i'm sure i'll get more IBCs in the not too distant future)

Yeah, you dont need to go all out with milk create and distribution pipes.

These are just the "premium" versions

If you wan to make a bit more void space in there. Throw a roll of ag pipe under the scoria. Or a bunch of 2 lt milk bottles with a few 6mm holes in each.

i'll keep it in mind for the next project.

where i have the IBC dirt bed i will eventually have a greenhouse and another AP system in there

Well... no rest for the wicked!!!

got cracking today on the system.

Lining it all up after leveling it all out


all the pads out ready to go

cutting up the legs


and in place

rear supports in...
the 'beams' were fairly heavily rusted and we spent a fair amount of time grinding it all off and now its all gal painted.


Solid!!

the front supports in and growbeds on!!

the plumbing has had a bit completed. the drains to the sump are all but done, and at the last minute we decided to sink the sump. Soooo we had to dig, its almost done just a bit more to go.

Once the sump is lower i'll hook up the drain and then finish off the SLO feeds to the growbeds and start running things. Fill the growbeds up with the stones from my first system, finish off the final growbed and fill that one up with hydroton and the others with scoria.