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Now something like 18 years ago there was a television show on the discovery channel called square foot gardening it was hosted by its founder Mel Bartholomew It is a method in which vegetables can be grown in a small area yet yield more food. I believe these could be adapted to use a raised bed and placed on roofs of buildings and strong holds. The basis of the technique is that you create garden beds that are divided into square foot areas. use string you can use sticks, pencils, pebbles to mark out 1 foot squares.. leave paths all the way round. Taller plants and vines should have trellises.
Layout is as follows.
(Small) 16 Plants 3 in apart, Carrots, Radishes, Onions.
(Medium) 9 Plants 4 in apart, Bush Beans, Spinach, Beets.
(Large) 4 Plants 6 in apart, Leaf Lettuce, Swiss Chard, Marigolds.
(Extra Large) 1 Plant 12 in apart, Broccoli, Cabbage, Pepper, I would put tomatoes by themselves in a bucket.
As for preserving you cold make a solar food Dehydrator
Or you could can your food.
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Someone needs to find the link that was posted in another thread previously about upside down tomatoes and post it here. I really liked that idea.
Might I also suggest dwarf fruit trees? Mangos will be missed should the world go to h*** in a hand basket.
Do you mean this one? http://www.clubwisconsin.com/tomato/
On cabbage when harvesting cut off leaving 2 inches of the head behind, cut a X into that and 4 smaller cabbage heads will take its place.
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That would be it.
i read something about this.
an inner city rejuvination project had the idea of turning run down parking lots into urban farms, with a total of like 18 inches of topsoil they could grow corn, beans, tomatoes and other stuff.
http://www.cityfarmer.org/
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