Mutant Action - Environment and Technology

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LabBox Grower: Pocket hydroponic always online

Grow Micro Labs has devised and is preparing to produce LabBox Grower, the smallest box of growth in the world is completely automated. It works with a hydroponic system and drip irrigation, which administers the nutrients and is illuminated by high-brightness LEDs, to provide a micro-cultivation everything needs to grow.

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Seed bombs, weapons of "guerilla gardening"

Put some flowers in your guns! This famous slogan has inspired two designers, Tony Minh Nguyen and SnowHome, who provided valuable weapons to "guerrilla gardening" by creating clay grenades filled with seeds. After a week of their explosive rupture begins to sprout grass, buttercups and poppies later. The shells of flowers are on sale at £ 12 for pack of three (link)

Tags: bombs seeds , deforestation , desertification , flowers , guerrilla gardening , seeds , seeds , land Read

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Better organize your home garden

Gardening can be a very charming work, and like other sciences, a little bit of knowledge can not hurt to start with the right foot. Wired has published an interesting article that provides some avenues of study and helps us to organize the space at our disposal 4 proposing solutions depending on the square footage available for your green corner.
The cultivation of a garden, however small and located in an urban context, must be planned carefully so as not to waste any resources and quality products to eat. It is useful to know the basis for the production of compost with the help of worms, techniques to recycle gray water, how to combat pests and how to help friends insects, primarily bees, useful for pollination.
If you are a geek and a fan of science fiction to make work more fun you can think of this as home to a terraforming.

Tags: water , vertical farming , bees , homebrewing , beer , climate , cultivation , compost , efficient , do- to read

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Building a practical vertical garden

The vertical garden offers several advantages: easy to build, maintenance practice, protected from invasions of animals and especially feasible in strategic locations with good exposure to the sun, without the need to have plenty of space available. A solution of this type may be suited to an urban environment where you often only have a balcony or a little more.
In this article I show you three different types of vertical garden that could be useful for growing flowers, herbs, vegetables or anything you like, provided they are small in size.

Tags: vertical farming , DIY , Growing , DIY , gardening , irrigation , orchard , recycling , greenhouse effect , Earth Read

19 apr/10 1

Little space? Grow the plants upside down!

What to do if you do not want to give up organic farming, but there is little space available?
Simple, our plants hanging upside down upside down!

Although traditionally the most commonly grown plants "upside" are tomatoes and cucumbers, a wide assortment of plants can benefit from this technique of gardening, including peppers, strawberries, vegetables and a variety of flowers.