USING our WASTE CONTAINERS?

Hi ALL. A Message to everyone on this day the 16-6-2009 I know how to grow RICE in water, on water, or VERTICALLY simply done by using plastic containers as a water recycling system which is also transportable. To see what I claim is TRUE please visit my website, may you and yours and what you grow live long and happy. Thank YOU.
JRP recycling or www.recycling.moonfruit.com John. J.R.P.

 

But WHY would anyone want too ?????

 

Sorry to say this, JRP, but the site is so badly constructed, it's almost impossible to see what's going on.

 

No disrespect to you JRP and I expect you are doing a good job but if I had all those containers on my allotment plots it would take me forever to water them all because being white and probably absorbing quiet a substantial ammount of heat rays from the sun,I would be spending far more time watering each container and being only 5ft 1" and frightened of heightsI would never be able to reach the highest containers to water them.It must be a bit like painting the Forth Bridge, never ending.....:hehe:

Also,those pallets would be a nightmare in the winter with them being slippery after heavy rain or snow.If they work for you though then thats OK:D

 

What? i just get a picture of some malnunurished kid.

 

Thank you all for showing your interest in using waste containers to serve a purpose.
Pro Gard it's because some people like growing things who haven't got a garden to use.
Daisees may be it's to simple for you to use and understand to see the wider picture.
Kandyfloss I only add some water to my projects once a week and I'm still here to prove it.
NewbieGreen yes they are the POOR people I'm trying to help feed in a flood or a drought situation.
May you and yours and what you grow live long and happy. John.

 

Don't worry about all the armchair critics John as long as you are prepared to get out there and devote your time and energy into trying to help these desperate people it is most admirable in my opinion,good luck with all your endeavours.:thumb:

 

I agree (sorry, but you cant expect help if the website is not helpful)

 

Hi John, I had a look at the website and I take my hat off to you for trying to help others.

Good luck with your work. :gnthb:

 

Hi ALL thank you for showing more interest in reusing waste containers.
Walnut thank you very much for showing your support.
Water garden maybe you have been looking at your (1) bottle garden to much.
JWK yes I like to think I'm a bit different and my way of doing things are too. I don't think you can get any smaller garden than my transportable carrying system using no tools because I have no weeds to dig out.
Jazmine thank you very much for making my day start off so well.
May you and yours and what you grow live long and happy. John

 

I actually looked at the web site the previous time you posted (some 8 months or so ago).

As a method of growing in this country I can see little benefit unless one likes an eyesore. These bottles only allow for a very small amount of compost therefore high amounts of feed would need to be added, further root growth of the plants is restricted. The bottles will either become waterlogged or simply dry out too quickly.

In Britain plastic milk bottles can be easily recycled were they get melted down and ree processed, IMO the best thing to do with them

As an idea for developing countries it fails in a few ways, firstly pallets and plastic milk bottles simply aren't about in for instance Africa!!! secondly in hot conditions the compost or soil in the bottles would dry out too quickly.

I admire your enthusiasm but this is not a workable idea.

 

Hi Pro Gard thank you once again for your comments and showing your interest in reusing waste containers and pallets.
But it does seem to me that you can't be bothered to go down all my menu otherwise you would have seen proof of what I've been doing for many years now with the same containers and the same compost and adding very little water to prove my point. Like I've said Mother Nature is my gardener if you think you know more than her then you are a fool, all I've done is to design a very simple to make system to help her grow things where you are in fall control of what ever water there is. As for reusing pallets it was just one way I thought of to help reduce some of our waste and to prove a point my system can be used in different ways other than growing things in the ground. If you were a true gardener then you would dig what I'm doing not say I'm wasting my time. May you and yours and what you grow live long and happy. John

 

I did read down the menu.

The fact that rather than answer my comments you resort to posting insults proves a lot about the credibility of your ideas in the real world. At best they are pie in the sky.

Yes you can do a study on your allotment but this simply doesn't relate to the conditions in third world countries.

If you did a bit of research you would find that the majority of pallets in the UK are either reused or recycled for paper production, biomass burners, chipboard production or general woodchip. Hardly a lot of waste!!!!