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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] More on fiberoptics?
  • Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:15:03 -0600


My answer for end of tomato season is drying, freezing, and canning. Any
light setup for winter growing is going to be extremely expensive for a
good supply of fresh tomatoes.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 10/7/2007 at 9:09 AM Kate Moran wrote:

>Is there anyway to get some further details on how your son's fiberoptic
>system was set up? It sounds like it has lots of elements that we would
>like to incorporate. Up here in Wisconsin the tomatoes are ending and
>that is so depressing.....
>
> Kate
> . When fiber optics were new one of
>my sons ran a tube of fiber optics from outside to the basement and grew
>tomatoes all winter as a school project. The light from the fiber optics
>worked great. True it was just one plant but it worked. His Science
>project was a mock space station with centrifugal force rotation, fiber
>optic growing of a closed system for food which had fish for protein to
>consume the worms that composted etc.. He even allowed for some fiber
>optics to be used for repairs so their storage was in use growing food
>until
>or if ever needed for repairs. He also discovered that dirt was lighter
>and
>easier to manage than hydroponics. He never worked out all the bugs but
>then he was just a pre-teen.
>







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