Hydroponic greenhouse gardening
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I can attest that this method really works. At this writing
(April 1974), we have growing in the greenhouse the
healthiest, largest lettuce, spinach and cabbage we've ever
raised. I've seen radish and lettuce plants become
measurably larger from one day to the next! We find that
lettuce, especially, grows like a weed and almost takes
over the greenhouse if we don't trim it regularly for
salads every evening.
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To sum up, then, let me quote once more from
Hydroponics! by Steve Fox:
HYDROPONICS OFFERS THESE
ADVANTAGES:
FIRST LEVEL
1. Greater yields
2. Extension of
growing season
3. No insecticides
4. Weeding is eliminated
5. No heavy
labor required
6. No need to change
greenhouse soil
7. Ease of transplanting
SECOND LEVEL
1. Greater rural densities
2. Possibility of letting land lie fallow
3. Less labor to harvest
4. Methods could be standardized
S. Maintains hydrological cycles
THIRD LEVEL
1. Permits establishment of earlier
ecologies
2. Oxygen production in urban
areas
3. Autonomous self-contained optimum
environment
4. Space travel
With the world facing a food shortage of unimaginable
proportions (read The Population Bomb by Paul
Ehrlich), hydroponic agriculture could provide a viable
alternative to starvation . . . if not for the whole world,
then at least for those individuals who can read the
handwriting on the wall.
In the next installment I'll describe how wind-generated
electricity provides the power to heat my greenhouse and
aerate the fish tank.
BOOKS ON HYDROPONICS
Hydroponics! Steve Fox, Station A,
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, 1971.
Hydroponics as a Hobby: Growing Plants
Without Soil, Circular 844, free from Publications Office,
College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana,
Illinois 61801.
"Copyright Newsweek, Inc., 1974,
reprinted by permission.
Taken from: Hydroponics! by Steve Fox
A THOUGHT ON HYDROPONICS
. . . (when people) are unemployed, as millions have
been during the last decade, they cannot buy their food but
still must be fed. One way of lightening the burden of
relief expenditures is to alter the ratio of agricultural
to nonagricultural laborers. The unemployed must become
farmers themselves, and produce their own subsistence . .
. The answer lies in hydroponics, which can operate
wherever climate is available and produce on a small plot
the same amount of food as can agriculture on a large farm.
It offers the most feasible method of removing the
unemployed from towns and cities where private employment
for all of them may never again be available and of
allowing them to support themselves. Nations such as Italy
and Japan which are worried by crowded populations and
inadequate agricultural land could easily use it to
multiply their production of foodstuffs manifold. Once
their hunger is satisfied from within their own boundaries,
the reasons for seizing the rolling wheatfields of the
neighbors might be swept away ....
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