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Taxi fleets in Thailand are giving new meaning to the term “rooftop garden,” as they utilize the roofs of cabs idled by the coronavirus crisis to serve as small vegetable plots.
Pretty silly, really....With shallow containers, they can only grow a few salad greens or sprouts, all of which add only moisture, color, texture and possibly some taste to a diet but are otherwise nutritionally useless (check any nutrition site to verify that).
I participate in a couple different homesteading/gardening fora, and there are questions about container gardening on, say, a balcony, asked frequently....My response is Why bother?...One potato plant will yield ~ 1lb of potatoes-- enough for one meal for two people....One tomato plant may supply enough for your salads or sandwiches for 2 months, but not enough to preserve for sauce....Did you ever wonder how many pea plants it takes to supply one serving of peas? (3 or 4.)
But I guess there are people who sky dive just once just to say they did it.
Pretty silly, really....With shallow containers, they can only grow a few salad greens or sprouts, all of which add only moisture, color, texture and possibly some taste to a diet but are otherwise nutritionally useless (check any nutrition site to verify that).
I participate in a couple different homesteading/gardening fora, and there are questions about container gardening on, say, a balcony, asked frequently....My response is Why bother?...One potato plant will yield ~ 1lb of potatoes-- enough for one meal for two people....One tomato plant may supply enough for your salads or sandwiches for 2 months, but not enough to preserve for sauce....Did you ever wonder how many pea plants it takes to supply one serving of peas? (3 or 4.)
But I guess there are people who sky dive just once just to say they did it.
Read the article. It isn't silly at all.
and as far as planting small gardens, I plant one hill of summer squash in the only sunny area on my place and get a mess of squash every day during the season. Cut off the end of the potato you're going to have for supper and it will give you a bucket full of potatoes with minimal effort. If anything, I think most people plant, preserve, and spend much too much.
and as far as planting small gardens, I plant one hill of summer squash in the only sunny area on my place and get a mess of squash every day during the season. Cut off the end of the potato you're going to have for supper and it will give you a bucket full of potatoes with minimal effort. If anything, I think most people plant, preserve, and spend much too much.
But the article isn't about gardening...
Well. I'll concede that if a squash plant gave me even one squash, it would exceed my needs...and Yes, it's really easy to grow potatoes, but that one slice with an eye will give you another 1 lb of spuds, hardly a "bucket full" -- after three months of waiting...How many can you grow on your balcony?
The article isn't about gardening. It's about food production. My comment was about nutritionally significant food production....You can eat grass if you had to, but you can't survive on it. Same with salad greens, and you're better off just eating the beans than sprouting them.
The article isn't about gardening. It's about food production. My comment was about nutritionally significant food production....You can eat grass if you had to, but you can't survive on it. Same with salad greens, and you're better off just eating the beans than sprouting them.
The article isn't about gardening. It's about food production. My comment was about nutritionally significant food production....You can eat grass if you had to, but you can't survive on it. Same with salad greens, and you're better off just eating the beans than sprouting them.
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