Self-Watering, Self-Regulating Container Garden
source: http://greenairradio.com/?p=1513
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- Greenpointer
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Now, even YOU don’t have an excuse NOT to garden!
Inventor, good friend, and gin drinker, Adam Phillips, presented me with this city person’s ultimate solution to being lazy, having a garden when you don’t have a yard, and doing it yourself with stuff you can find in the garbage.
Step by step instructions start… NOW!
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- Health, Sustainable Agriculture, newinventions, hydroponics
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- Health, DIY, Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, 7 more
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Greenpointer
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Isn't this so cool??? I'm inspired to set up hoses all over the apartment to as many containers as my interior designer girlfriend will allow.
Since we do live in the city and are lucky enough to have a backyard, we're confronted with the issue of heavy metals in the soil. After mailing in the soil to be tested at the University of Massachusetts Soil and Plant Tissue Lab, I found there was a high level of lead preventing us from growing vegetables directly in the ground. In addition to containers being a necessity for edibles, I've embarked on my own phytoremediation research, growing ground covers in the winter that can soak up the heavy metals and then be discarded.
My only problem is that the metals are going somewhere once the biomass is removed. Wonder if anyone has any suggestions on that...
- 3 years ago
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Greenpointer
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barbara3d
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That is a great idea! Wish I had thought of it years ago when I had plants all over the house. I nurtured them to death usually. But now, I still love gardening but only use indigenous plants, shrubs and flowers.
If it can't live on its own, I am afraid I don't have much time for it. It is very rewarding and a statement of the fact that people want a life that has a piece of "mother earth" somewhere. I don't know how people live in concrete jungles.
- 3 years ago
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barbara3d
