Thread: Veggie Patch

Originally Posted by Vern

Looking forward to the pics. Whats the pump system you chose?

This one.
3" Screw Deep Well Solar Pump Submersible Bore Pump MPPT Regulator +Solar Panel | eBay

We are about to start a 70kw solar pumping system at a farm, which will have a floating solar array, should be interesting

That is quite significantly larger that my little setup.
By "Floating" do you mean actually floating on water or does that mean they are mobile panels that you can set up anywhere as needed?

Originally Posted by trout1105

This one.
3" Screw Deep Well Solar Pump Submersible Bore Pump MPPT Regulator +Solar Panel | eBay



That is quite significantly larger that my little setup.
By "Floating" do you mean actually floating on water or does that mean they are mobile panels that you can set up anywhere as needed?

Floating on water, about 140 panels on a floating pod system.

Originally Posted by Vern

Floating on water, about 140 panels on a floating pod system.

I am pretty sure that this will alleviate any overheating problems with the panel's

This is as far as we have got until it cools down enough so that we dont melt in the sun.

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We had a large steel frame (approx 300kg) on hand that we have used that to mount the panels on.
Lots of tech screws and heavy angle iron to mount the 2x 300w panels onto the frame.
Panels are wired in series to the solar controller and this is mounted under the panels.
The pipe fittings are fitted to the pump and 20m of 1/4" stainless cable has been attached to the pump and that is as far as we have got with that part of the job.

Weather permitting I will splice the 3 core pump power cable and the dual core wire for the well water level sensors and attach the 1" blue line polly to the pump in readiness for installing it down the bore, I will hook up the 3 core wire for the tank level sensors after we have cleaned out the 100,000l concrete tank which hasn't been cleaned in at least a decade.
But first up we have to pull the mill so that we can drop the new pump in and niether of us are keen to do that in the 45C+ temps at the moment so the job is on hold until it cools off a bit.

It's been a while since I have posted in this thread, I have been busy refurbishing a caravan and boat along with getting a Triton ute "Bush ready"

Here are some images of the veggie patch that I took a week ago

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looking good!

just dug my little patch over and added some mulch and just have to do a bit of work with a fork to dig it in and then i will be planting a few things...

Originally Posted by trout1105

It's been a while since I have posted in this thread, I have been busy refurbishing a caravan and boat along with getting a Triton ute "Bush ready"

Here are some images of the veggie patch that I took a week ago

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At a very rough guess there must be 50 million bucks worth of leafy stuff there, Mr Trout.

Originally Posted by 4bee

At a very rough guess there must be 50 million bucks worth of leafy stuff there, Mr Trout.

no special "herbs" in my garden old mate.
I have 2 breeds of each of these , cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, beetroot and potatoes.
I also have brown, white and spring onions in along with snow peas, lettuce, tomatoes, chillies, capsicum, silver beet, pac choy brussel sprouts and corn (yet to emerge).
In the herb side I have basil, chives, mint, sage, garlic, parsly, tumaric and ginger.

I won the war with the mice invasion earlier on in the year and now I am at war with the bloody aphids and caterpillars that seem to think that I am growing stuff just for their benifit.

I have been digging up some nice new potatoes and have picked some pac choy, silver beet, spring onions and small juvinile cabbages so far But it will be another few weeks before the spuds, beetroot, cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbages are fully mature and ready to harvest to eat/pickle/give away.