Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Some recent pictures:

Squash/Zuchini grow out:


Peppers


Tomatoes:

Tomatillos





Passion fruit

Nice pictures as always. What is the red fruit? Miracle fruit? What are some heat tolerant lettuce that you can grow during the Summer, all mine get about 4" tall, and bolt...very ugly.lol Any secrets for keeping out Powdery Mildew in the zucchini? So far, I've had about a dozen fruit, they get to about 4", and then rot off. leaves are all effected, and I can't keep them clean.

A good pic showing proper use of bait plants for insect control



Natural Florida






(Some cool Fossil finds) Mastodon molar chewing surface

Megaladon Tooth

Piece of Mammoth tooth

very cool, we got a few in the Santa Fe a while back. Pretty impressive how the bugs devoured your bait plant and didn't tough your lettuce. Do you use BT on the lettuce as well...like the UVI model? I think I finally whipped my white fly. Removed the kale and kept with the wasps. They are a major pain in the arse.

I hear ya, I'm already over 100 deg daily in the GH. As for what I'm growing through summer, I've got a bunch of different types of peppers, tomatoes, tomatillos, specialty squash/zuchinis, melons, cucumbers, heat tolerant greens, herbs, micros, sprouts, seedlings (for sale), some root crops (diakon, Easter egg, etc), and a few other oddities I have come across.

I'm also tilling up a large area in the sand and doing some corn, okra, sunflowers and potatoes for a new experiment where I will monitor effluent water nutrient levels, adjust to satisfactory levels and then use to fertigate the crops. Not recirc AP but none the less something I am interested in.

Thanks Chris. That's a sweet banana pepper that has ripened to red. Not a lot of lettuces that grow all summer in south Florida. Summer Bibb is good, loose leaf types work good as well. Shade them and keep water temps down as low as possible(again with shading). No secrets for powdery mildew control other than k bicarbonate or sodium bicarbonate but it sounds like they aren't getting pollinated. Get out there with a Q tip and rule that out first.

I use no pesticides... and that includes BT.

Great to hear you're kicking the white fly!

No pesticides at all? Wow. What plants are your sacrificial plants?

Vegie porn! Aaarggh my eyes! Looks great Ry-man.

Ron, looks like bok/pak choi to me.

Absolutely awesome growth there Ryan, those Tomatillos interest me, I had too Google them to know what they were.

Are they hard to grow?, I'll do some more reading on them.

I'm sure I would have eaten them in Mexican food at sometime but not known what the flavor was or what it came from.

I don't know what type of flavor it is, if it's spicy or hot but I'm sure I would like it and it probably would be something I'd like to grow along with my chilli's.

It's the exotic & spicy vegetables I like growing, they add to the normal run of the mill vegetables and are more of a challenge.

In the meantime it's back to the Google Machine.


Joe

green salsa is often made from them. there is a purple variety too.

Thanks Kimocal

Scale is a little tough to tell but these look more like cape gooseberries/ground cherries. They're related but aren't picked as early - you let them ripen until they fall off (I usually pick them just a bit before that, you can usually tell when it's time). With Tomatillos, the ones I've grown are much larger and are picked green (or there are also purple ones) typically when the husk splits (which doesn't always happen). I think they're all worth growing - http://www.pennywoodward.com.au/cape-gooseberry-ground-cherry-tomatillo/

Hehe, you called salsa verde "green salsa..." I bet you call the Sea of Cotrez the "gulf of California" too...

Just messin...

And it doesn't even have tomatoes

Ryan I saw you state a few pages back you try to keep nitrates low because high nitrates can cause negative reaction on fruit set.

Could this be why my toms only get about 25% fruit yield out of the blooms?

Then again, I dont get many beneficial bugs in the green house