Aquaponics..

sump tank on the left and our soon to be fish tank on the right

 We have massive plans for the greenhouse, just got a few more shelves to install and then the irrigation. Still deciding on the type of system I will use to water the plants but will mostly be using 'flood and drain' systems with a bell syphon. When we are installing all of this and making our syphons i will put up some photos and instructions. We have tried making a small scale system before and made a few mistakes, but now we have the hang of it we are ready to make something awesome.

Hurry up and grow!

the greenhouse is filling up..

 Today we planted a mixture of heirloom tomatoes, corn and baby corn, an australian heirloom pumpkin mix and Im trying my luck again this year growing the worlds biggest pumpkin seed.. its supposed to be able to grow as big as a car but last year mine died in that 3 days of 40 degree heat, heartbroken.

still not finished the shelving but enough space for now

Was 41 degrees in the greenhouse this morning, took out the rosemary cuttings we are hoping will root.. Shops are charging like $10 bucks each for these suckers at the moment and its so easy to grow your own from transplants, sure you might get a few misses but you wont be short of big rosemary bushes in Ellenbrook to have another crack. Ill post a how-to soon.

ranbo has a mate finally =]

The Greenhouse

The greenhouse is almost complete! Lights and electrics all in place, just waiting on some shelves.. We will be mostly focusing on having an aquaponic setup in there but there is plenty of space to start our seedlings for planting in the patch.