Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

We always get asked, can you grow carrots in an aquaponics system and wil they be straight. The answer is that you can grow just about anything, but some things grow better than others. Here is a carrot that was growing here in the Outback system and began to push itself out of the bed, and what a little surpise it was too.

now you just need a cool name and market it as a premium crop!! Corkscrew carrot???

Rainbow chard
Cos lettace
Boc choy
Ruby chard
Spring onions
Beetroot ( Bulls Blood )
Peas
Corriander
Sweet basil
Lemon basil
Thai basil
Rubarb
Radish (French breakfast )
All have done very well in our system which is in full sun till about 3:30 pm. I do have shade cloth above the plant beds for relief from the summer sun and that is removed in cooler times.

Sorry that it is not a very pretty picture but never the less, these carrots were pulled from the bed grown in straight "blue metal" (granite) Who woulda thought that was even possible, not bad huh?

wow in that heavy stuff? kinda explains why they're so short... unless that's the variety. I'm just surprised that they still grew, since they have such a bad rep for being so fussy about the size of the silt they grow in.

1. Tommy Toes
2. Capsicum (Giant Bell)

You must have strange granite over there Faye! Granite is normally gray - pink with mottled appearance and plenty of quartz. Blue metal is generally basalt in Australia, fine grained dark coloured rock with fairly uniform appearance. In the UK I believe mudstone is referred to as blue metal.

Loving my english spinach, spinach beet and buk choi !
and shallots! I have never seen such big, rapidly multiplying shallots before. I give lots away

The mint goes pretty good too

I have that in an apricot tree (7 months)
Just support the plant until it can hold its self

well out of my seeds that I threw in first to emerge in order: Bunching onions, Asian greens, spinach, peas, beans.
Not sure if they are proven but they germinated really quickly

Peppers, mustard greens, and something called garland chrysanthemum

curly kale, tuscan kale, russian red kale

kahl rabi
pineapple
dwarf nectarine

everything....

cellery works very well, buy one at the store and cut off about an inch and put it in the bed so it gets wet when it cycles.