Creek Street Journal - Sunday 9th Sept. 2007

Just five weeks after planting the seedlings, our mini-greenhouse and grow beds are yielding coriander, bok choi, lettuce and silver beet.

The 42 Jade perch in our fish tank are providing more nutrients than we can currently use, so I've added another growing system. To our existing gravel grow beds, NFT salad farm and satellite pots, I've added 4 Autopot units.

We've assembled a small group of Japanese quail to use as breeders. The increasing daylength will stimulate egg laying so we'll be dusting off our little electric incubator in anticipation of some fertile eggs.

Our latest batch of broiler chicks have just reached three weeks of age and no longer need supplementary heat. In another week, well move them into a small hut and strawyard for finishing.