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Gidday!
yes-got a credit in the credits of the video - my folks garden is in there
too. Re the taro in the aquarium, it grew ok but didn't get big tubers for
eating like I get from my garden. I've got heavy clay soil so dug drains
between wide beds using the soil to build the beds up and grow my taro in
the drains - does very well except for this past season when we had our
biggest drought in 100 years - thought i'd lost a lot of my taro but when
the drought broke they popped back up - just seemed to go dormant for the
protracted dry.
Give Tyrone a big hi and hug from me - miss his good energy and input here
at the gardens - glad he's connected with some ecovillage stuff - that's his
big passion and i'm sure he'll do well.
ciao
Robyn 


on 10/6/03 10:40 AM, John Schinnerer at john@eco-living.net wrote:

> Aloha,
> 
>> ...I actually made this balcony garden for the
>> video at the film producers apartment in Sydney.
> 
> Hope you got credits in the film somewhere!
> 
>> ...and a 'square-foot-aquaculture' aquarium with taro
> 
> Any report on how the taro did in still water?  I know of some people
> experimenting with hydroponic taro...but traditionally wetland taro was
> grown in lo'i (terraces) with some flow through them.  I'm curious if it
> did OK in the still water of an aquarium...?
> 
> cheers,
> John S.
> 
> PS - just met a lad named Tyrone, he was at your place some the past year
> I gather...?  Good person - he's part of the design team for the
> ecovillage design course I announced a little while ago
> (http://villagedesign.org/vdi_courses.htm).
> 
> 
> 
> John Schinnerer, MA
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