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Originally Posted by Turtle
Into your mixture of water & soap, add the liquid from steeping some tobacco. The nicotine should take care of your pests. If you use chewing tobacco like Red Man, the sugar will fertilize the plants at the same time. 
Currently growing a Youth-on-Age plant in my room, that I collected in the wild, and a Sitka Valerian from a root also collected.   |
Yes tobacco is deadly to most things.
What are the plants you mention?
Have you got a pic.?
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This is an enthusiastic article on Vertical gardening
My problem with it is- Where does the energy for the light come from or to build purpose-built buildings?
The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond | www.verticalfarm.com
Still it is an interesting thought/concept.
Certainly City office blocks seem lit up till very late if not all night. I wonder if the lights could be made more plant-friendly without giving office workers sunburn?
I wonder how many fights you would have in an office with a wall of strawberries or raspberries?
A Potential Solution: Farm Vertically
The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another 3 billion people. An entirely new approach to indoor farming must be invented, employing cutting edge technologies. The Vertical Farm must be efficient (cheap to construct and safe to operate). Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world's urban centers. If successfully implemented, they offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply (year-round crop production), and the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming.
The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond | www.verticalfarm.com
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Advantages of Vertical Farming
- Year-round crop production; 1 indoor acre is equivalent to 4-6 outdoor acres or more, depending upon the crop (e.g., strawberries: 1 indoor acre = 30 outdoor acres)
- No weather-related crop failures due to droughts, floods, pests
- All VF food is grown organically: no herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers
- VF virtually eliminates agricultural runoff by recycling black water
- VF returns farmland to nature, restoring ecosystem functions and services
- VF greatly reduces the incidence of many infectious diseases that are acquired at the agricultural interface
- VF converts black and gray water into potable water by collecting the water of evapotranspiration
- VF adds energy back to the grid via methane generation from composting non-edible parts of plants and animals
- VF dramatically reduces fossil fuel use (no tractors, plows, shipping.)
- VF converts abandoned urban properties into food production centers
- VF creates sustainable environments for urban centers
- VF creates new employment opportunities
- We cannot go to the moon, Mars, or beyond without first learning to farm indoors on earth
- VF may prove to be useful for integrating into refugee camps
- VF offers the promise of measurable economic improvement for tropical and subtropical
- LDCs. If this should prove to be the case, then VF may be a catalyst in helping to reduce or even reverse the population growth of LDCs as they adopt urban agriculture as a strategy for sustainable food production.
- VF could reduce the incidence of armed conflict over natural resources, such as water
and land for agriculture
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Sorry I don't seem to be able to use Hypography smilie, type,picture or quote functions.
I'll try again later
The planet at night
Who left the lights on?
