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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Says plant in Summer.  You might as well say it takes 5 months to grow,
so I personally would have to plant it with cotton right after the last
frost, starting it in flats in the greenhouse.  You are a zone warmer,
so you have a bit more leeway.
It does say it's a heavy feeder, which makes sense considering the fact
that Asian countries sometimes use human urine and feces for fertilizer.
I'm thinking we would need some kind of animal manure for the mucky
soil,,,,maybe you could create the muck a few months before you
transplant, like make it now for Spring transplanting, and use pig
manure, horse manure or whatever kind of manure you can find.  That way,
the hot poop can cool for a few months.  Another thing, and you could
probably do this better than me because of temps, is that you could set
you your pool, add some bream and catfish and let nature work through
the winter and spring.  Our farm store sells fish several times a
year...get em small, let em grow..harvest them when you drain the
rice..you might add a submersible pump for aeration.
Just brainstorming,

Bev, who is taking a break from cutting up tire..making a rubber edging
for the garden


eureka AT hctc.net wrote:
> My pool has a concrete bottom, one foot high metal walls (holes
> drilled for draining, will plug with rubber corks from inside and
> plant mint at weeps on outside) 15 foot diameter. I have been saving
> rocks that came out of the trench from the septic reroute to put
> around the exterior to hide the metal. That would make it about 177
> sf, or 23# of rice. We use a lot more rice too, because we cook our 
> own dog food (turkey & rice with beans and greens). But it seems
> decent to experiment with. I'll send you a picture of it offline
> later this afternoon.
>
> This is good info. When does one plant?
>
> --Sage
>
> On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:00:55 -0400 EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
> > I'm with you.  I just need probably one year to really set it up
> > and find good seed sources.  Do you have any idea of what kind of
> > minimal water depth would be? The reason I ask is because I don't
> > currently have the metal swimming pool sides, but I have seen them
> > on freecycle-you know people will give them away in exchange for
> > taking them down.  I don't have that, but I do have the bottom of a
> > plastic water tank.  It was a 400 gal tank that split, so I cut it
> > up.  The base is about 4x4 and could hold about a 1 foot of water. 
> > According to John Jeavons, I would need 1.7 oz, lets say 2.0 oz of
> > seed for 100 square feet.  Obviously, in my little plot, I would
> > only have 16 sf.  That is not much seed.  Yield in US is about 13#/
> >  100 sf, so in my little plot, I might get 2 pounds of rice.  It
> > might be a good test plot until I can acquire materials for a
> > larger plot. So 1 inch apart, seeds started in flats, then 
> > transplanted to 4 inches apart into paddy(intensively planted), 17
> > weeks to harvest after that. Jeavons chart shows Calrose as a good
> > variety. His chart also says that the average person consumes 17 
> > pounds of rice a year.  I think I eat more than that!  In fact, I
> > think I eat double that.  So, to grow 35 pounds of rice, I would
> > need about 300 sf, or 600 sf for the two of us.  A 27 ft diameter
> > swimming pool gives me about 572 sf, which would be plenty of room
> > to grow rice for two people.  Bigger would be better, but 27 ft
> > pools are easy to find.
> >
> > Bev
> >
> >
> > eureka AT hctc.net wrote:
> > > OK Bev, I think you and I should be the rice growing guinea pigs
> > > of the list serve. Let's do it with our respective pools. We can 
> > > document it on our blogs. Whaddayasay??
> > >
> > > Now I need to find out when to plant, what kind of rice, and
> > > where to get the grain seed. I suppose a bag of brown rice from 
> > > the supermarket won't do, although I remember Bill saying he 
> > > planted his fava beans right from the health food store bag.
> > >
> > > --Sage
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:32:49 -0400 EarthNSky 
> > > <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > > > Yes, I have seen the Budweiser Rice Paddies in both LA and 
> > > > Arkansas. This is not what I envision for here, not even 
> > > > close..I am thinking of a small paddy in a low lying area,
> > > > using a swimming pool(above ground metal sided type) to create
> > > > a wetland, using a rainwater collection tank(300 ga) to fill
> > > > the paddy.  Of course, draining is easy. That is of course, for
> > > > wetland rice, which is what is grown in the US.
> > > >
> > > > Dry land rice intrigues me, but I need to find out more about
> > > > it.
> > > >
> > > > B
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