Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 2Aug 05, 2008 11:11 am Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 4Aug 06, 2008 12:18 pm Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 5Aug 06, 2008 12:25 pm mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 7Aug 06, 2008 11:02 pm I was talking with a bloke the other day. He tells me his garden is barely 3x3mtrs. He lives in a retirement village. He has set up a series of buckets that are steped in height in that area. each is linked with a bit of 19mm poly. The poly exits one bucket at the base, it then leads to the top of the next bucket (or similar from what i gathered) He just collects worm casting juice from his worm farm and dillutes that with water. Tips it into the top bucket and it works it's way through the buckets. each bucket contains a type of veggie and he says it is more than enough for he and his wife to live off. hey give the exess vegies to the neighbours. He has been growing them like that for years. Hardly any pests either.
I would love to see that. On our weather forum, one of our members is really into growing veggies in the back yard using fish waste. The farm fish and the waste product is used to grow veggies. I will have to find the forum link. aquaponics it's called. Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 8Aug 07, 2008 8:35 am I'm growing veggies in foam F&V containers - have lettuce, baby spinach and kale seedlings growing now.
We are currently renting - so it's something we can move later. Another 2 weeks and we'll be munching on our home-grown veg! After 4 years - we're in! Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 9Aug 07, 2008 8:53 am Like most gardeners when ambling around the back yard I love THE THOUGHT of eating a vegetable or strawberry straight from the graden i.e. before washing it, but did you know that snails have some nasty parasite in them that can be transferred to humans?
Yes, so wash your garden delights first! Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 10Aug 07, 2008 10:07 am neri Like most gardeners when ambling around the back yard I love THE THOUGHT of eating a vegetable or strawberry straight from the graden i.e. before washing it, but did you know that snails have some nasty parasite in them that can be transferred to humans? Yes, so wash your garden delights first! Don’t worry about the snails…..its next doors cats spraying your vergies in an attempt to mark the area as his own!!!!!!!!!!! Wash your vergies……god knows what’s been on them at night! Snail trail???? …you’ll live through that; people from many moons ago have before you! Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 11Aug 12, 2008 7:31 pm Check out www.backyardaquaponics.com
Its all about a mutually beneficial system between fish and plants. The basic set up is a fish tank stocked with eating fish (freshwater). The water is pumped from the tank into a bio filter (vessell with gravel type material). The amonia from the fish waste is converted into nitrites and then into nitrates which is plant food. The water comes out of the bio filter and is used to water seasonal vegies, fruits etc. The plants are planted in gravel also and the water drips/ runs back into the fish tank cleansed and oxygenated for the fish. Its a continuous cycle which can either work on a timed pump or an auto-siphon. I had a set up at our existing house but pulled it down as I am intending to sell up later this year. Will do an improved version at the new place as I have never seen tomatoes grow so quickly or so big. Anyways, the above website has plenty of info about it if anyone is interested. Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 12Aug 16, 2008 3:23 pm my DH is mad on his worm farm and their casting. He almost become a commercial worm grower. The liquid that comes out is the best organic fertilizer! But no veggie patch here but we will definitely have one in our new place Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 13Aug 16, 2008 3:31 pm Mel&Em Check out www.backyardaquaponics.com Hmmmm....is that anything like hydroponics. Our neighbours were really into that...until the police raid (I am not joking!) But I best not say any more about that or I might have to go into witness protection 'chelle We have a hand-over date...15/10...but I won't hold my breath! http://people-in-glass-houses.blogspot.com/ Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 14Aug 19, 2008 11:36 am Its quite common to draw that link Michelle, but the only thing the two systems have in common is that they end in ponics. While in hydro, you add the plant food, in aqua the only thing you're feeding is the fish. The rest takes care of itself. There's nothing shady about it, its all about fresh vegetables with very little water usage. There have even been a couple of systems planned/completed on very large scales in a rural setting. Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 15Aug 19, 2008 11:49 am Its ok Mel….I was just having a dig at neri….who appears to have gone missing from the forum anyway!
I used to see Hydroponics when I worked in the nursery. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 16Aug 19, 2008 1:58 pm Michelle Its ok Mel….I was just having a dig at neri….who appears to have gone missing from the forum anyway! I used to see Hydroponics when I worked in the nursery. I think Mel may have actually been referring to my post about the hydroponics, its the second time lately that I've been mistaken for you! But I'll take it as a compliment . It's OK Mel, just my weak attempt at humour, which no-one seems to get . Must be something to do with the 12 long years I've spent at home with the kids...don't get out enough!! I do actually understand the difference between the 2 systems. But I was still serious about the police raid over the road...quite a bit of excitement for a stay-at-home-mum who doesn't get out enough 'chelle We have a hand-over date...15/10...but I won't hold my breath! http://people-in-glass-houses.blogspot.com/ Re: Love to see your ... vegie patch! 17Aug 19, 2008 11:22 pm Mel&Em Check out www.backyardaquaponics.com Its all about a mutually beneficial system between fish and plants. The basic set up is a fish tank stocked with eating fish (freshwater). The water is pumped from the tank into a bio filter (vessell with gravel type material). The amonia from the fish waste is converted into nitrites and then into nitrates which is plant food. The water comes out of the bio filter and is used to water seasonal vegies, fruits etc. The plants are planted in gravel also and the water drips/ runs back into the fish tank cleansed and oxygenated for the fish. Its a continuous cycle which can either work on a timed pump or an auto-siphon. I had a set up at our existing house but pulled it down as I am intending to sell up later this year. Will do an improved version at the new place as I have never seen tomatoes grow so quickly or so big. Anyways, the above website has plenty of info about it if anyone is interested. hey Nocky is a member there from our weather forum and another memeber from waweathergroup.com Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 40338 Broker here - legislation says that every true broker must put the clients best interests before theirs so in theory they must offer you the best options for you on their… 2 46226 |