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- Feb 10, 2015
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I don't really have an AP. system just ponds (tanks) for fish. For my fall garden I am going to plant my broccoli and collards in an old area we raised pigs about a year or so back. The soil there is real good and I will use the water from my fish ponds to water the plants. When I vacuum the bottom of the ponds I will use that water for the plants. Next year I may build raised beds near the ponds and grow in dirt rather than an AP. system. I have a greenhouse frame about 20x 50 ft. and I raise pigs in it. I tried a greenhouse here in Alabama and it is just too expensive to run. I thought about in 26 ways to Sunday and even considered raising rabbits for heat. But the real problem was cooling. Even in mid-winter it got really hot with no humidity. I do better on a shaded porch or outside under a shade cloth. We can plant outside every month of the year and summer is the hardest on plants it seems. A swamp cooler works but it takes water and electricity....and then come the bugs. My dream was to have pigs, cows, chickens, and fish. My land is so poor it won't support cows well but it does real well with goats. So I raise pigs, chickens, fish, and goats...and of course my garden. I raise red worms but no other fish food. And I use them mostly for fishing. They raise a lot of catfish down here and I can get catfish food pretty cheap. I also throw some "tuffy minnows" in the ponds now and then and they seem to reproduce well. They will be the only winter feed for the fish.
I don't really have an AP. system just ponds (tanks) for fish. For my fall garden I am going to plant my broccoli and collards in an old area we raised pigs about a year or so back. The soil there is real good and I will use the water from my fish ponds to water the plants. When I vacuum the bottom of the ponds I will use that water for the plants. Next year I may build raised beds near the ponds and grow in dirt rather than an AP. system. I have a greenhouse frame about 20x 50 ft. and I raise pigs in it. I tried a greenhouse here in Alabama and it is just too expensive to run. I thought about in 26 ways to Sunday and even considered raising rabbits for heat. But the real problem was cooling. Even in mid-winter it got really hot with no humidity. I do better on a shaded porch or outside under a shade cloth. We can plant outside every month of the year and summer is the hardest on plants it seems. A swamp cooler works but it takes water and electricity....and then come the bugs. My dream was to have pigs, cows, chickens, and fish. My land is so poor it won't support cows well but it does real well with goats. So I raise pigs, chickens, fish, and goats...and of course my garden. I raise red worms but no other fish food. And I use them mostly for fishing. They raise a lot of catfish down here and I can get catfish food pretty cheap. I also throw some "tuffy minnows" in the ponds now and then and they seem to reproduce well. They will be the only winter feed for the fish.