EdaciousImber's hydroponic is a concise guide to growing fresh vegetables
during drought dry Summers.
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GROWING VEGETABLES IN A
DROUGHT
SOWING SEEDS
FRUIT
AND VEGETABLES AS A SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER
DISCLAIMERS/WELL-ADVISED
GUIDES
ABOUT EDACIOUSIMBER'S HYDROPONIC
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GROWING VEGETABLES IN
A DROUGHT
In desert or drought weather conditions rain falls seldom. Nasturtium
plants growing in pots filled with soil (pot plants) need less watering
than nasturtium plants that are growing in the ground/earth/fields. Nasturtium
plants growing hydroponically need less watering than nasturtium plants
that are growing in pots filled with soil (pot plants). (Nasturtium, lettuce,
and cabbages can each be grown hydroponically). A large, empty clay pot
can be filled up with pebbles/stones that are approximately the size of
peach (Prunus persica) seeds. The roots of plants can grow into
the pebbles/stones[1] and the pebbles/stones can support the weight of
plants. Plants need water and nutrients with which to grow in size. Compost
is (microbially) decomposed food scraps, leaves, or seaweed, etc. Compost
(soil) can be mixed and stirred with water to be compost water. If water
is unavailable then compost (soil) can be mixed and stirred with fruit
or vegetable juice instead (e.g. the juice of cucumbers, tomatoes, Palmae
coconuts, etc.). Compost water can provide plants growing in the pebble
filled pot with all the nutrients and water needed for them to grow strong.
The compost water in the pebble filled pot becomes depleted of oxygen[1]
within approximately 48 hours. So the compost water must be emptied from
the pebble filled pot and then reoxygenated/aerated/bubbled by being stirred
(every 2nd day). More compost soil (a fertilizer) can be mixed into the
reoxygenated compost water to remineralised/replenished the compost water
before the compost water is poured back into the pebble filled pot. Thus
food can be grown in pebbled, compost water full pots (i.e. hydroponically)
throughout a drought or in deserts when rain is scarce. Noon sunshine can
evaporate oceanwater[1]; thus oceanwater can be desalinated into fresh
water[1]. So food can be grown hydroponically in deserts by the sea during
a drought.
SOWING SEEDS
To germinate and to sprout into seedlings most food crop seeds need
three environmental conditions:
1. The absence of light (e.g. the darkness of being planted/sown under
the soil/in the ground).
2. Moisture (e.g. to be dampened by rainfall or river floods).
3. Warmth (e.g. to be kept warm under the soil via the heat of the
Spring sun).
Seeds can be sown in soil, and then as saplings (young plants) they
can be transplanted into hydroponic pots.
FRUIT
AND VEGETABLES AS A SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER
Fruits and vegetables can be eaten for their fresh water content; if,
for example, sources of drinking water (e.g. waterholes, creeks, wells,
rain tanks, etc.) have run dry, stagnant or salty (saline). The fruits:
pineapple (Ananas comosus), apples (Malus domestica), plums
(Prunus domestica), and apricots (Prunus armeniaca) are each
approximately 85% water[2]. Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum), and
grapefruit (Citrus paradisi) are each more than 90% water[2]. The
vegetables cucumber (Cucumis sativus), and lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
are each more than 95% water[2]. Some fruits can be eaten for both water
and energy. For example, Musa banana contains more energy than most
common fruits and is approximately 74%[2] water. Grapes (Vitis vinifera)
contain more energy, and calcium than most common fruits. Grapes are approximately
80% water[3]. Citrus fruits, and Granny Smith apples are more than
80% water, robust, and keep at room temperature for several weeks without
perishing. So after other fruits have perished and drinking water has run
dry then oranges (Citrus sinensis) or Granny Smith apples, for example,
can be carried on a very long walk from a dry, desert township to the beach.
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GUIDES
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No liability for special, incidental, consequential or other damages.
Wild seeds can be dormant, yet viable[4]. To germinate a dormant seed
may require[4]:
-Emersion in water for months.
-Drying (out) over months.
-Wear (e.g. to be worn down by rocks whilst floating down a babbling
brook).
-Exposure to sunlight for weeks before the darkness of being sown under
the soil can germinate the seed (e.g. lettuce the genus Lactuca).
-Exposure to the cold of Winter before any Spring warmth can germinate
the seed.
-Emersion in acid (e.g. to have been digested by an animal).
-Fire (e.g. to be burnt by wild fire).
Tomato eaten within 24 hours of banana, pineapple, apricot, or plum might cause temporary fatigue. Tomatoes consumed in great quantity everyday might cause temporary drowsiness. Cucumber vegetable eaten in quantity within 2 hours of sucrose fruits (e.g. tomato) might cause temporary fatigue. Cucumber vegetable eaten everyday might cause temporary fatigue; however cucumber vegetable eaten every 2nd day does not. Grapes eaten everyday might cause temporary fatigue; however grapes eaten every 2nd day do not. More than 2 large apples consumed daily can cause temporary fatigue. Coconut (Cocos nucifera) juice/milk consumed as a drink might basically cause temporary fatigue. Pineapple eaten daily might cause temporary fatigue; however pineapple eaten every 3rd day does not. Lettuce eaten in quantity within 2 hours of sucrose fruits (e.g. pineapple, tomato, etc.) might cause temporary fatigue. Lettuce consumed in quantity can cause temporary drowsiness.
ABOUT EDACIOUSIMBER'S
HYDROPONIC
EdaciousImber's hydroponic web page by Peter Burrill
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October 2009
Melbourne, Australia
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Encyclopedia Britannica "Encyclopedia Britannica 1999 Standard edition"
1999. Compact-disk read-only-memory medium <http://eb.com.au>
2. Fortin, Franc,ois "The visual food encyclopedia" (Les E'ditions, Que'bec, 1996). ISBN 0-02-861006-7.
3. U.S.D.A. "USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21" 2008. <http://www.ars.usda.gov/nutrientdata> (14 January 2008)
4. Sally Anderson and Hefta Gunder "Biology of Plants" (Worth publishing inc, New York, 1986) p. 506-507. ISBN 0-87901-315-X
5. Samuel P. Harbison and Guy L. Steele Jr "C, a reference manual" (Prentice-Hall, U.S.A., 1995) p. 344. ISBN 0-13-326224-3
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