Preparing for Spring Garden

You know how sometimes you get the urge to do something for Spring. For me it's changing everything over from Anaerobic to Aerobic. Started by making cuttings of Brown Turkey Figs. Those worked pretty good.

First picture is of a Brown Turkey Fig, Cashew and a Fiddle leaf fig. These plants are part of what I call the system. Meaning the way and material their made with.

An Orchid, Lemon trees, and a Monteria Delicoisca all growing in the system. I'm just showing the diversity of plant types that can be grown with this method. But back to the garden.

I was taking stock of what I was asking myself to create. How much material I will need to meet the plant demands I still want to grow. I have to be realistic I have space but a lot is covered by trees. I don’t want to cut them down because there’s not much “critter” space left around here. It’s easier for me to create it here but... It’s soon time for me to put out lettuce. The first green things showing. No, I think I’ll put out bird seed instead. The decision tho should be to setup the multi-season plants and trees up first. Then the changing seasonal plants afterwards. I could change some of the floor plan to go vertical. I have several vertical systems laying around. Running them tho would draw attention where ever I put them.

This is a Concrete palm. This is an 80% Styrofoam chips and 20% Perlite. The as long as it doesn't hold water on it's surface. You can also see. the difference in the different root structures the plant produces as it moved thru the medium

I bring this up because we have to think of ways to conserve water, fresh water. Growing on the scale we do now is not sustainable. The writing is on the plow shears. 80% of all that water being sprayed on a field, sure it keeps you and a whole lot of people fed. But 80% of that evaporates and floats away. Now too with the fresh water we drink is being polluted by long term nutrient use using mined minerals from else where being dumped in the waters here. Or there because the smoker are going be using hydroponics because they think it’s easy. It’s is as long as you don’t mind stuffing that elephant down the drain every week or two. This machine we’re sitting in front of brings awareness unlooked for. I’m not looking to change your mind. Hell, no I’m too old for that. Thing is tho awareness is awareness. Something you can’t let go because you become aware. This awareness will keep growing like a little itch every time you go to the bathroom. Because in 5yrs your kids will be drinking that.

What Argo-Bio-Ponics allow you to do is grow plants in a sterile environment. That creates a Natural Symbiotic between plants and Bacterial Fauna. Because both are living things they both work on a Boom and Bust cycle. A Boom and Bust cycle that works in concert with the seasons using a water environment.