Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

No worries AM - just let me know what you want out of this list of stuff I have plenty of ATM. Can't guarantee successful germination...none are past their 'plant by' date but they've been stored at room temps mostly due to lack of fridge space...all are heirloom seeds...all the lettuces are the non-heading loose pick variety.

chinese broadleaf celery
'loose leaf' lettuce
garlic chives
garden cress
'gwenda white' lettuce
german chamomile
'freckles' lettuce
salsify
rosella
'side pick' lettuce
'hale's best' rockmelon
tomatillo
'giant of stuttgart' climbing bean
black passionfruit
'giant russian' cucumber
west indian gherkin
'tropic' tomato
pomegranate
daikon radish
oregano
golden purslane
salad burnet
cherry red (and yellow) pear tomato
'snake climbing' bean
'cos verdi' lettuce
'frilly pink' lettuce
'rosa bianca' eggplant
'snowy' eggplant
'marconi rosso' capsicum
mexican coriander
'delicata' squash
'table queen' squash
'mideast prolific' cucumber
cosmos (mixed colours)
jap pumpkin
onion chives
'riccolina da tagelio' lettuce
lime basil
'prestons' bush beans
'sydney crimson' rhubarb
'southern european' silverbeet
'perennial' rocket
'adzuki' bush beans
'red stalked' celery
'giant of italy' parsley
rye corn
lucerne
agati
'red dandelion' chicory
mesclun mic (mizuna, pak choi, green and red chinese lettuce)
multi coloured aztec maize
'black beauty' zucchini
'genovese' sweet basil
'clove' (tree) basil
'beefsteak' tomato
'butternut' pumpkin
'table gem' bush squash
'cocozelle' zucchini
'italian non-acid' cucumber
rocket
'mammoth' sunflower
'giant russian' sunflower

Ethnobotanical Research/Ornamental:

Nicotiana langsdorfi
Lobelia inflata
Helichrysum foetidum
Leonurus sibiricus
Sida cordifolia
Nymphaea caernlea
Tagetes lucida
Salvia Hispanica

Got lots of other stuff too but I'm either low on seed, bought it as a plant and waiting for seed (or can do root cutting/crown divide or take a cutting if you're ever up this way), have proven the seed unviable recently, just can't find it amongst all my junk, or it's already gone in the moving truck.

But I'll be stocking up on lots more stuff again when I move soon.

Been a while since I saw the aquaponics mexican wave guys do their stuff...

garden cress, chinese broadleaf celery, multi coloured aztec maize, 'southern european' silverbeet, 'perennial' rocket, lime basil, 'mideast prolific' cucumber, cherry red (and yellow) pear tomato, pomegranate, tomatillo and german chamomile... to start with
Never offer me seeds, I cant help myself, I just gotta germinate them and give growing them a go

Jez, offer open for me too? pretty please?

get in line matey.... crazed seed growing fanatics first, THEN then crazed fish loving pyro mainiacs!

Steve/EB - might want to start a seed exchange on this site. I have a few different things that people might be interested in also. Can't believe how much you have Jez. Did I see you say you are moving away from the tablelands. Didn't you just get your place there a year or so ago. I remember when you first started posting to the Permaculture group. I remember talking to you about bastard fruit fly. Did your naturelure work for you all through the fly season? I'm looking at getting some this year.

SMAAAAALLL world

Hmmm, Very good idea VB!

How to do it though to make it reasonably organised........

Logical place is in the buy-sell-swap-trade section

might start a new topic there. Mabe people can post what they have to offer and then users can PM each other to organise things.

Will save the topic from getting really messy and hard to view.

quick do it!!!
People can request seeds there too!...

Sir, yes sir!

just don't forget i out rank you, private

Hey, Im a fish! rank, what's that!

Its when the big fish chase the smaller smart arse fish LOL

By the way, i've pretty much killed that huge stevia bush, dunno how, i re potted it a couple of times, maybe it has very sensitive roots

i split it into two and planted half in the garden, nothing but twigs left, i'll leave it there till the warmer weather incase it cmes back. The half that i re-potted into the orginal pot looks just as bad

On the bight side, i took two small cuttings, and removed all of the leaves and stuck them in with the strawberries above the inside fish tank. does not seem to have struck any roots, but there is new growth from two nodes, promising............

Will post some new pics of the strawberries in my topic

A seed exchange is a great idea for the forum.

PM me a postal address AM and I'll get them away over the next week or so. I should mention that the Aztec maize grows to over 3 metres tall - and that's in soil - so bear that in mind wherever you plant it. It's a great living support for beans in "Three Sisters" type plots like these (bottom of page).

No problem Steve, just post a list and PM me a postal address and I'll send them out.

As I said lads, no guarantees on getting a great germination rate, but I'll be getting fresh batches of many in the list above when I move as I'll sell the house and garden with the seeds I have ATM included, so can send more down the track if you don't have great success.

I've got loads of golden purslane (link is for comon purslane but they're practically identical except the golden has bigger leaves) if anyone wants lots to plant...they just self-sow and are very good for you and easy to grow...could also be a great fish food additive I suspect.

VB, yeah we are moving out to the Savannah country, all the furniture etc is out there now except a mattress, the tv and the computers and I'm just camping here, just sold the cafe and now I have to sell the house. We absolutely love the Tablelands, but not the mortgage we had...it was just a temporary thing to avoid paying rent and make a little money doing up this house...nearly finished that now.

Once we move we'll have no mortgage which will be awesome...means we'll have lots more money in the future to spend on better things than enriching the bank...including a good size aquaponics setup.

The Naturalure worked well mate, we had only a handful of affected fruits. IMO it's best if you can use it where you won't affect other insects...we have a big old mango tree which doesn't fruit (I'm growing choko's up it now) and I used this along with some other plants and trees which pollinators don't frequent as trap crops around the main areas which would be affected. I was pretty careful about this, so we still had very good poliination rates and hardly any damage from fruit flies.

It's a bit of a balance though...if you applied it indiscriminately you could theoretically kill a few pollinators in the process...which is probably why they recommend it mostly for orchards rather than small yard use...but I found it very useful if you plan the application well. Goes a long way too...I only used about 1/3rd of what you get.

Three sisters is a good read.

I just successfully germed a pumpkin, don't know the name, but it's a miniature, about the size of an apple, and as sweet as a mango (almost).

These are rare, and so I believe easily marketable with novelty value and a genuinely new flavour for chefs to play with. (new here anyway)

I have some stock I'd love to share upon collecting this years seed. Tomato that defies frosts and fog, a 3 years continuous cropping bell pepper...

Three sisters is a good read.

I just successfully germed a pumpkin, don't know the name, but it's a miniature, about the size of an apple, and as sweet as a mango (almost).

These are rare, and so I believe easily marketable with novelty value and a genuinely new flavour for chefs to play with. (new here anyway)

I have some stock I'd love to share upon collecting this years seed. Tomato that defies frosts and fog, a 3 years continuous cropping bell pepper...

Ok Kids, you're going to have to bear with me wile i GO NUTZ!

I have just had a bender on the internet, forum was slow so i reverted back to my useless researching of "stuff"

Spent 7 hours looking up and getting quite addicted to medicinal herbs both edible plants with beneficial medicinal properties and the more hardcore medicinal herbs.

By chance the LAST of the 80 herbs i was reading up on hasgot me really upset.

Man if you thought i was upset when i learned that the FDA put severe restrictions on stevia then this is 10 fold. (Oz is governed by the TGA anyway, and stevia is a sugar substitute)

Any way Ephedra is the herb. It contains ephedrine. The herb is where they first isolated both ephedrine and pseudoephedrine from.

It caught my attention becasue it has saved many peoples lives when they have had a severe asthma attack. It gives almost instant releif from it. Now in a self sufficient sence, or if you are more than 20 minutes away from an ambulance and you have family that are prone to asthma then this is one herb i want.

It was given to us by nature. isolated by man, now the *frack* ban import, export, use, and possesion under schedule NINE! (same as heroin)

get *frack*!



They can go to hell, i WILL get my hand on some one way or another, and i WILL grow it. (PM's are a nice way to share )

Man, this sort of lunacy gets me fired up! I seriously need to have some chamomile now at the least!

Sorry guys, i feel the need to share and need a place to vent.

This site is very interesting
http://altnature.com/gallery/

It all started about a week ago when i ordered some plant via the net from a organic shop in NSW. Plants arrived in TIP TOP shape, with the root mass still in a very organic looking and smelling rich soil. The icing on the cake was when i saw 5 worms happily living in the root mass and soil. Anyway one of the herbs i ordered was yarrow, only 'casue it sounded cool and the description mentioned some medicinal uses. I looked it up on the above site and its kick ass. below is a link to the place i got my plants from, they have seeds and bare rooted plants.

www.greenpatchseeds.com.au

Steve