Comments on: Beehaus and Eglu Promote Urban Agriculture in Europe – Very Local Food! http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/08/08/beehaus-and-eglu-promote-urban-agriculture-in-europe-very-local-food/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:54:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Harcourt http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/08/08/beehaus-and-eglu-promote-urban-agriculture-in-europe-very-local-food/comment-page-1/#comment-60806 Dave Harcourt Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:16:11 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=3574#comment-60806 Hi Rus, Thanks for the useful feedback - it shows I didn't clearly say what I was thinking in that last paragraph. I was looking at small scale hydroponics where there's no soil, say on a window sill and something smaller than the available dwarf varieties that could produce useful lemons in a pot next to the stove. Maybe you could comment if this is at all possible? or is it just a non horticulturist's ramblings? Hi Rus,

Thanks for the useful feedback – it shows I didn’t clearly say what I was thinking in that last paragraph.

I was looking at small scale hydroponics where there’s no soil, say on a window sill and something smaller than the available dwarf varieties that could produce useful lemons in a pot next to the stove.

Maybe you could comment if this is at all possible? or is it just a non horticulturist’s ramblings?

]]> By: russ http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/08/08/beehaus-and-eglu-promote-urban-agriculture-in-europe-very-local-food/comment-page-1/#comment-60805 russ Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:09:21 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=3574#comment-60805 "Hydroponic vegetable production would seem to offer real opportunities and is already available at household scale. Fruit trees would also seem to be a crop that could be more widely planted in urban gardens and even pots, especially if grafting and breeding were used to produce smaller trees." You can tell this fellow knows a lot about horticulture! 1) Hydroponics is not so easy as a plant in the soil 2) All fruit trees I know of are grafted! 3)Dwarf trees have been a major thing for 50 years and more! Or maybe he is talking of GMO types of trees? “Hydroponic vegetable production would seem to offer real opportunities and is already available at household scale. Fruit trees would also seem to be a crop that could be more widely planted in urban gardens and even pots, especially if grafting and breeding were used to produce smaller trees.”

You can tell this fellow knows a lot about horticulture!

1) Hydroponics is not so easy as a plant in the soil
2) All fruit trees I know of are grafted!
3)Dwarf trees have been a major thing for 50 years and more!

Or maybe he is talking of GMO types of trees?

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