Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

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.
>