Food Gardening

[spog]

Hmm decisions decisions.
If I built it I could then fix shelving too to supports no worries and I could add a sliding or hinged door, but if I buy one similar to the pics above I would have to use free standing shelves and go with a roll up door or flaps.
A couple of pics of where it will go.

Ideally entry would be from the 2.0 metre wide end which is the southern face which would give more room for a door to latched in the open position on hot days ?

I'm thinking a salvaged ally screen door would do the trick and have some plastic panels to clip on the inside of the door during winter to stop the cold wind blowing in.

The gum tree branches hanging over are going,the whole tree is going to cut right back as its riddled with borers and most of it is over my shed.
We had a bigger one in the front yard but it went because of borers and it dropped two bloody big branches that narrowly missed the house.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

You should do alright there spog you do get some shade,I cobbled up an adjustable stand for my pots to go into the right hand side of the green/shade house, temporary hold on the build though, no, not Orange Bellied Parrots, Raspberries, so the wife said no until she has had her fill of them, I actually may move them into pots, their root system are like hops, all over the place like a mad woman's ****.

 

[spog]

I'm going to miss the tree when I drop it,while gardening etc I've been watched by Kookaburras and when it was in flower Honeyeaters and Rainbow Lorikeets ? And of course Bees.
I'm thinking now of lopping the threatening limbs and hope it re grows....
In pic # 1 are the pots mounted in cable ducting ? I've had a look online for basic hydroponics and this interests me.
I can get quite a lot of 75 mm storm water pipe off cuts from work and flare and join them as needed to go with the sewer pipe I now have,the 3 level staggered set up you posted would fit very neatly into the 3.0 x2.0 sized greenhouse that I'm going to now build.
I did some research over the weekend and have decided to build one as the cheapy offerings have a limited life span for the covering and it'd be a pita to worry about.
Got 6 iron roofs happening at work ATM so plenty of materials to be had, using the pics I posted I'm going to clad the side closest to the rainwater tank with iron as it gets SFA light etc, the end from where the 2 Nd pic was taken being the southern end will be done the same but also have the door in it.
I haven't yet figure the 2 other walls but I have enough? Polycarbonate sheets for the roof , 2 each side of a pitched roof with one sheet of iron on each side at the southern end to make up the roof area...etc,etc.
Being in the building industry is a huge benefit and the Boss loves it when people raid the junk heap as it saves him money on dump fees,win,win.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

The pots I have in the pic spog are in NFT Channel/gully/trough it is about 450 mm wide, I made a fly cutter ( the cover has not got any holes when purchased) to cut the holes for 200 mm pots big enough for tomatoes. If you want to play around with hydroponics the cheapest way is some 4" plastic down pipe drill out at 90 mm and use 4" pots you can grow peas, Boc Choy, lettuce strawberries and any other smaller plants.
Set up a gravity feed (if you have any old 30 litre containers,ideal) I have some 6mm float valves you can have if you want, go on line and look up systems for gravity feed, the ideal way is a smart valve, but have a play around first.
I am trying coir blocks with some peas at the moment, and rice hulls with some tomatoes though I do keep getting rice popping up, so much for the parboiled rice hulls we are supposed to have over here.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

A good buy for anyone wanting to get into Hydro, like finding a 20 litre Braumeister at the same price.
Excellent value.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/like/Autopot-Hydroponics-Ket/301915614355?hlpht=true&ops=true&viphx=1&_trksid=p5197.c100068.m2280&_trkparms=ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140211130857%26meid%3Dc69b960a38584fc5a0efdea6cf5f75ca%26pid%3D100068%26clkid%3D4552462167281314752&_qi=RTM2003803

This guy has dropped the price by a Spot! One good plant and it will pay for itself plus a few years worth of nutrients,medium and a couple of dozen slabs.

 

[Camo6]

This guy has dropped the price by a Spot! One good plant and it will pay for itself plus a few years worth of nutrients,medium and a couple of dozen slabs.

Preposterous. I'd have to sell my tomatoes at hundreds of dollars a pound to see that sort of return.

 

[spog]

Preposterous. I'd have to sell my tomatoes at hundreds of dollars a pound to see that sort of return.

This guy has dropped the price by a Spot! One good plant and it will pay for itself plus a few years worth of nutrients,medium and a couple of dozen slabs.

I'm silly enough as it is without having to grow " one good plant ", and SHWBO would rip my Knackers off with pliers.

 

[Camo6]

I'm silly enough as it is without having to grow " one good plant ", and SHWBO would rip my Knackers off with pliers.

I had a mate who was sponsored to grow several good plants but, due to a lacksical approach to light cycles, nearly had his ripped off by his bearded, hairy, tattooed sponsor. Not for Profit organisations were more my thing back in the day.

 

[spog]

I think there's a message for is all, stay away from bearded,hairy,tattooed individuals and their husbands...simply not worth the grief.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSOcG-iWi4w

 

[Curly79]

I like the solar drop feeders. Great idea.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

It would have been even better if he had installed a storm water pit and gully's either side of his hoop house to catch the water to fill those tubs.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Started my build yesterday, completely forgot what manual labour is all about, removed all the raspberry canes installed foundations and concreted in, today installed corner posts and some frame work, hands blistered and rough ( well rough according to the wife) high temps for autumn, not liking this welding gal up a ladder burns all over me.

 

[spog]

If only Ikea sold greenhouses.

 

[manticle]

... not liking this welding gal up a ladder burns all over me.

A chick who welds or you welding galvanised?

 

[malt and barley blues]

As a youngster one of my errands was to go and buy the paraffin for our little Vulcan stove, I used to get threepence to spend and I always bought a packet of Tiger Nuts. I was thinking of these recently and decided to see if they were available here, they are but now they have been upgraded to the latest super food the cheapest I could find in Australia are $67 a packet.
Can we grow them is my question.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3178049/Tiger-nuts-grr-eat-Popular-1950s-treat-make-comeback-superfood-high-iron-vitamin-content.html

 

[Dave70]

As a youngster one of my errands was to go and buy the paraffin for our little Vulcan stove, I used to get threepence to spend and I always bought a packet of Tiger Nuts. I was thinking of these recently and decided to see if they were available here, they are but now they have been upgraded to the latest super food the cheapest I could find in Australia are $67 a packet.
Can we grow them is my question.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3178049/Tiger-nuts-grr-eat-Popular-1950s-treat-make-comeback-superfood-high-iron-vitamin-content.html

Here you go. I hope you make a killing. And I'm sure you will. $67 a packet? People are morons. Truly.

https://fairdinkumseeds.com/products-page/edible-roots-and-tuberous-vegies/chufa-tiger-nut-earth-almonds-cyperus-esculentus-roots-tubers-seeds/

Gogi.
Wheatgrass juice.
Acai berries.
Quinoa
Organic..

 

[Mardoo]

Wow, those sound awesome!

My SIL jumps on every food trend. I'll drop this one in front of her for my own amusement.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Most of my construction work is done made up the LRB's for the roof they will go up tomorrow, they will be in line, then the next hardest part will be putting up the film cover. Changed my door from the side to the front and it will be a sliding door the rollers are a bit of overkill considering they will be holding the weight of a door no heavier than a wrung out sock. (I was going to use these rollers for a flying fox for my daughters but my wife said it would be to dangerous)
Made the jig for the bends by bending some 25mm x 6mm flat around a water tank then fixing it to the frame of the greenhouse/ shade house. Starting Monday morning until today.

 

[Bribie G]

Tiger nuts... the last ones I had were in about 1965 in high school and I'd completely forgotten about them.

Then as soon as I read the post, suddenly I could taste them exactly and I started drooling. Sweet, nutty, milky... but I doubt if my teeth could handle them nowadays.

While we are on the subject ... liquorice root. Now we're talking.