Nocky's Backyard

pistolknight · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:07 pm

A small tour of the Nock houseold, garden looks like crap at the moment mainly due to a day of 46.1c deg temp when we were on holidays followed by a couple of 40c and failed retic

plus neglect due to on going aquaponic fact finding missions, so look at these as Before and After Pics, after may take a little longer :thumb:

Topsy Turvy's with a couple of Tomato's and a Chilli, grape on the right

Attachment:

topt.jpg [ 146.76 KiB | Viewed 17107 times ]

From the left, Apricot, Small tree is a Plumcot and far right a Plum, also a Protia between plumcot and plum

Attachment:

applum.jpg [ 170.65 KiB | Viewed 17107 times ]

In the cooch is an Apple, plus small tree is a Mandarin and sort of centre is a Peach, tyres are leftover from the potato crop

Attachment:

mapp.jpg [ 181.89 KiB | Viewed 17107 times ]

pistolknight · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:10 pm

Cherry tree with the under repair and design shade house, the right hand side of shade house will soon have 2 Aquaponic Growbeds, also see the source of my online weather data above cherry, the trusty weather station

Attachment:

cher.jpg [ 175.04 KiB | Viewed 17106 times ]

Kentucky, Fried and Chicken

Attachment:

chook.jpg [ 209.84 KiB | Viewed 17106 times ]

Lemon and a Fig in background

Attachment:

lf.jpg [ 179.99 KiB | Viewed 17106 times ]

pistolknight · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:12 pm

The Aquaponic System and remains of beer o'clock :drink1:

Attachment:

aqua.jpg [ 115.87 KiB | Viewed 17106 times ]

Missus's bathtub aquaponics, Blackberry growing from this up against the Beer Shed, this section of garden felt the heat most, pity it was looking nice

Attachment:

bath.jpg [ 192.02 KiB | Viewed 17106 times ]

Kentucky, Fried and chickens house and the toy on the left which is in need of a good run

Attachment:

pen.jpg [ 170.85 KiB | Viewed 17106 times ]

pistolknight · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:15 pm

finally an orange, pink lady apple and a white mulberry, also you can see 3 almond tree's scattered in the pictures, 2 are covering the chook pen and another to the right of the blackberry covering right side roof of the beer shed or the tree above the orange, as mentioned and you can see a fair bit of work to do yet

Attachment:

oamul.jpg [ 180.56 KiB | Viewed 17106 times ]

dufflight · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 8:46 pm

Nice looking trees. Mine are all newly planted so I have a couple of years before they start to really look like trees.

pistolknight · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:06 pm

Thanks Duff, a few were in when we moved in 9 years ago so not much idea on variety's, the plumcot, mulberry, cherry, manderin, pink lady are new additions, place was run down when we got it so 9 years later we are on track to fixing it, I know it still doesn't look that flash but if you saw the before before pictures you would be amazed.
Then Lemon tree is about 12 foot tall, gets minimal water and in 9 years has always had huge lemons from green to yellow and in huge numbers, the 40+ temps a week or so ago thinned them out a bit though, hopefully by the time the flowering pics are posted things will look much tidier :lie:

Granny Smith · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:45 pm

You've certainly got a lot going on there, Nocky. Pity about the retic failure. That's always a concern when you go away for a while.

How did the AP systems manage in your absence?

chillidude · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:51 pm

Yep, looks pretty good Paul - nice setup.

Lemon trees are as tough as nails aren't they ? Once they get their roots down to where the action is, they're damn near un-killable.

veggie boy · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:14 pm

Plenty of grass there that can be reclaimed Nocky :bat:

chillidude · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:54 pm

Yep - Black Solder Fly larvae will eat any lawn clippings you have mate !

pistolknight · **Posted:** Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:59 am

VB have been trying to kill the cooch for 9 years :confused:

will get some how powered gear from a farmer now, I have tripled dosed with round up and covered with old carpet, take away carpet and cooch comes back, is the only part of the yard it's in, chooks seem to eat the lawn but not the cooch
Granny I took all the trout out of system before I went, gave yabbies and Red Fin a big feed before I left but pump kept going whilst I was away, my kids popped in to check on things, pity they didn't check the retic :crazy:

earthbound · **Posted:** Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:20 pm

Excellent Nocky... great trees.....

Hmmm, I look at that old trampoline and the mind starts to wander.... Turn it upside down, weld a few bits on and make a greenhouse perhaps? Could be useful for a few things...

The Hopefulls · **Posted:** Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:58 pm

Hey Nocky, meant to ask.......how successful are the upside down tomato pots?

pistolknight · **Posted:** Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:47 pm

Joel is 2 old tramps in pic, one standard and one large, the centres shade one end of AP tanks from sun and the frames soon to tip, if anyone wants them PM me and I can arrange drop off, in SW WA only though

The Topsy Turvey are great, got mine from EBAY, pack of 3 was less than $60 posted from Tazzie, be careful you get the true TT brand as the other cheaper ones break easily, Tom's weren't a great harvest but no others in AP or Veggie patch fared much better, chillies were great, will try other things in winter, only thing is water daily about a litre and a bit of fertilizer weekly, seasol and powerfeed was my choice

pistolknight · **Posted:** Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:47 am

Went to AC/DC on Saturday, Awesome, called in to BYAP shop on way home, looking good EB, called into bunnings as well, not to buy anything :lol:

ended up with the usual stuff and also a Raspberry and Banana Passionfruit, so we now have Raspberry, Blackberry and Mulberry, interesting fruit salad coming up

To add to last months post on Topsy turvey :swear:

about 2 weeks ago one broke the main bladder ripped in half, 2 days latter the other 2 the same, bought one for a mate and his did the same, no UV protection in the material, whilst they were good when going, I think now complete rubbish, I got 4 on ebay for $60 posted so not much lost, they are the TT brand, read reviews on a cheaper brand and reviews not that good as they broke on the wires, but the principal of growing tomato's upside down is great, save your money on TT's though

Backyard Farming Forum
Bringing food production home

Nocky's Backyard

Who is online

Backyard Farming Forum Bringing food production home

Nocky's Backyard

Who is online

Backyard Farming Forum
Bringing food production home