Backyard Aquaponics
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note with broad beans, apprently they should be consumed within 48 hrs of picking as the carbohydrates begins to be converted to sugars.

Here are some more interesting facts.

Anyone with G6PD can simply ensure that the beans are cooked before eating but i assume that anyone with this disorder would already know

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Broad beans are rich in tyramine, and thus should be avoided by those taking monoamine oxidase (MAOI) inhibitors.

Raw broad beans contain vicine and convicine, which can induce hemolytic anemia in patients with the hereditary condition glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD). This potentially fatal condition is called "favism" after the fava bean.

Broad beans are rich in L-dopa, a substance used medically in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. L-dopa is also a natriuretic agent, which might help in controlling hypertension. Some also use fava beans as a natural alternative to drugs like Viagra, citing a link between L-dopa production and the human libido.
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how good do those beans look! Can't wait to get em going in the ap system next winter. We got 2 feeds out of the few that sprouted. It was so dry they didnt come up until that rain we had in late autumn.

lol you n reets are going to be lifting the doona bigtime tonight

man that avatar still scares me!

u want some fried chicken?

ok so a few days ago i decided to give my bath tub a freshen up.

pulled the remaining broad beans out (just had then for breakfast now ) dug around and removed some roots, found a few TRULY HUGE earth worms, not sure where the composting worms were maybe deeper down.......

anyway, jacked up (literally) the right hand side of the grow bed that had been flooding and becoming quite anerobic.

This is where the grow bed ratio comes in................i never had problems with nitrates but the bed has been so densly planted out so many times that it is quite full of crud and the water is struggling to drain out. for a bit of a test i jacked it up to a huge angle and the water seem like it still prefered to just traverse the top of the bed rather than down through it. This is only a problem on the far 1/3 of the bed.

Today, according to the lazyness model of life, rather than dig out and waste all my cruddy goodness i simply layed another layer of gravel on top and planted away in the middle you can see capsicums a few tommies to the left and a strawberry too. later today i'm going to layer the far right with more gravel and maybe just leave it as a really large RSG or more probably plant some true water cress over it

Here are some pics

good use of a trolley jack!

yeh, trolly jack and a few lumps of wood were used to lift it, then after searching for an piece of angle i settled for the stock jack from the '79 to '87 holdens as the permanent brace ( i have a few )

oH i forgot to mention, the trout were at 25 yesterday!!!!

and slightly broiled?
Got to check the thermometer

nah, they seem happy enough! water temp 24 today, and i've checked the accuracy against my digital. Just caught and cleaned two for mum and dad, swapped them for a bag of gravel heads and guts to the chookas

That's a classy-lookin' growbed.

i'm more of a functional sort of bloke

Truly a work of art Steve

We're gunna have to make you a hothouse stevo..you should go see if F&F can liberate some materials