Aquaponics - Iron

Comparison on these 2 photos showing, vegetable cutting from my earlier setup and present.

Above is the present setup Water Celery, show healthy growth.

This one are from my previous setup. The different is yellowing leaves in the later picture this is due to lack of Iron, the present setup I'm using nails and Iron rods to provide Iron to the plants.

Aquaponics - Updates 14 Aug

A bit of an update, not much happening. Home kit that I'm building should be ready by this weekend. That steel rack that I ordered still in the making.

Chinese Celery above germinating, its not that encouraging looking at it growth. It going to be tough for these guys to survive.

Chives also germinating, this is worst nothing to shout about. Will it grow, I don't know.. we'll see.

This is easy to grow, we call it Kesum (Vietnamese Coriander) kind of herb, good for variety of Asian dishes. Its a must for most kitchen over here. Kesum grow from cuttings.

Chillies doing fine, some shots of Chili, still green and they are quite large and each plant have on average have 2 or 3 Chillies.

Another shot of those Chillies. Tomatoes are forming but I'm not happy with it. I could have choosen a wrong variety for my locality. Will try another next time.

Aquaponics - Fern

Fern do so well I had no choice but to trimmed them. I planted 24 Fern out of that only one didn't make it. That's a good survival rate.

Trimmed Fern, this will let the young ones grow and gives even more fern.

Close up shot of young ferns, once the bigger fern gone they will start to grow better.

My in-law stir fry those fern, just a handful but its good for one helping. The way to identify the edible leaves is by looking at it upper surface. If the leave show sign of shiny waxy look then its good. Dull leave is no good and it may be unfit for consumption.

I love the smell of fresh Fern.. when I was growing up, we stayed near the jungle and undergrowth area full of Fern and we do pick a lot as vegetable.

Fresh smell of Fern never fail to bring back memories of childhood days - Its priceless.

Trimmed Fern, this gives chance for Chillies to have better growing space before they start to get wild again.