My God! Am I the only one who is insanely jealous of Gallo de Cielo??? I mean..... er..... I don't know what I mean all I know is that that is amazing. I'm going to print it out and show it to my wife.
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x 2 Yep Yep..... Hes put a lot of hard work into it.My God! Am I the only one who is insanely jealous of Gallo de Cielo??? I mean..... er..... I don't know what I mean all I know is that that is amazing. I'm going to print it out and show it to my wife.
It sounds like you did Hügelkultur or a variation of it.... My goodness you performed a Herculean effort.
When my Dad was helping manage a grove of apple trees on about forty acres. Hard pan down like you say.... The trees were beginning to drown from irrigation. Solution.... Quarter sitcks of dynamite spaced about twenty feet apart Bore a hole as deep as you can get it.... Cracked the hardpan so the water could drain..... Of course that was back in the 40s when handing over a case of dynamite to a seventeen year old was no big deal....
Was your dirt originally Decomposed Granite or a smaller grained dirt. I hesitate to say soil because here there too is very little organic mateerial in the desert. Down by the coast they build houses here and lay out about six inches of soil ontop of The predominatnly clay soils. Its a nasty grey clay and when wet will suck the shoes off you AND your horse. You dig a hole for a tree and you have essentially made a POT.
I hope you share some pix... I am reading chronologically.
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I am planning on doing the aquaponics above ground. My house was built with a green house attached to it. I replaced the glass with a real roof though. 140 degrees in the summer time there was too much. So now I have a room thats about 20 x 14 with a concrete floor and floor drains. Also access to a bit of dirt in the corner about 2 x 4 space. I think the idea was to put a bathroom there once... dont know.
The room has water source drainage and a good place to start the Aquaponics. The concrete floor will make it much easier for me to get about with my walker or eventually a wheel chair. I am thinking of doing a sump arangement to lift the water up to a water only tote setup maybe six feet off the ground. Then using gravity for the rest.
I am thinking the gray water should not be mixed with the Aquaponics till I know its safe to use for edible plants. So Access for Bathroom and Kitchen are on the opposite side of the house. I will slate that for growing fruit trees. Dad said he had a peach tree that had Softball sized fruit... Juicy and very very sweet. Because it had tapped into their septic tank.... LOL But I want to grow some Hyacinth with the water before it gets to fruit trees.
Sketching is almost done....
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Yep.... double click on the picture and it will enlarge for you. I just drew generic drums.... just ideas. Pipe sizes are larger than normal so you can see....I wish I could see the diagrams better. Are those 55 gallon drums linked together? It will be great I'm sure. I have realized too late that simple is always the best approach. I would do something's different now. My tilapia have had babies and it looks like 3 more are swirling eggs and babies in their mouths. So we are in full baby mode now.