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In reply to the discussion: Grow. Food. Everywhere. [View all]IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)75. Kinda reminds me of the garden I put in every year - in pots.
I'm 68 and have 2 dogs that would destroy a regular garden bed. I have to pile rocks around my landscape plants to prevent deadly digging, etc. So over the first few years of retirement, I've collected cheap pots and repurposed other things into pots. That way the dogs can tear up a lot of the yard w/o too much harm, and I don't have to do stoop labor to grow food. Works for me. Everybody here said, oh, the winters are too hard on pots, they'll freeze and crack! All I have to do is make little cozies for them, just like teapots.
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There's a good number of food crops that are less water-intensive than cover grass
Scootaloo
Apr 2014
#13
most of it is actually CO2 and water. a small amount of CO (enough to kill if you breath it from...
yawnmaster
Apr 2014
#66
I left out the N2 because it did not take part in the reaction and it is atmospheric. it came...
yawnmaster
Apr 2014
#85
I never said it was feasible. I asked the question wouldn't it be great if it would work?
hamsterjill
Apr 2014
#47
I'm thinking it's a distinct possibility along the I-35 corridor between DFW and Houston
LanternWaste
Apr 2014
#53
Regarding planting food alongside our highways, I worry about exhaust contaminants.
chknltl
Apr 2014
#25
Short of a WW2 "Victory Garden" level of effort, I don't see this being particularly significant.
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#27
MORE places, maybe, but... everywhere? Lead in soil, dogs whizzing, road salts, PLUS
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2014
#36
You've maybe heard Utah Phillips tale concerning moose turds, but if not, here
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2014
#82