<div dir="auto">Hi Jason,<div dir="auto">I would like to take one of the link below for a gardening:</div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://opensource.com/article/17/3/arduino-garden-projects">https://opensource.com/article/17/3/arduino-garden-projects</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 3, 2017 14:21, "Jason Cobill" <<a href="mailto:jason.cobill@gmail.com">jason.cobill@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div> Hey Makers,<br><br></div> This weekend is Seedy Saturday at Ron Kolbus Lakeside Center (in Brittania).<br> <a href="http://www.seeds.ca/events" target="_blank">http://www.seeds.ca/events</a><br></div> I'm posting because there's some crossover between Makers and Growers, I think - usually there's a few weird contraptions on display, Vermicomposting setups, automated watering systems, branch splicing tools and compressed fibre pots (made of cow poop!).<br><br></div> A few Garden-Nerd questions:<br><br></div> 1) Are any of you plant tinkerers, and have you automated any aspects of your garden? Any biohackers doing selective breeding experiments? Anyone with clever indoor growing stations? Anyone with an unusual garden?<br></div><div> Have you seen Clock Gardens? There's a professionally cultivated one at Niagara Falls.<br></div><div> <a href="https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/special/children/clock-garden-design.htm" target="_blank">https://www.gardeningknowhow.c<wbr>om/special/children/clock-gard<wbr>en-design.htm</a><br><br></div> 2) Plants are a staple of sculpture and architecture projects - have you seen a particularly elegant art/design project you'd like to share? There's so many beautiful ones, but I think the Plant-in-city project is a particularly elegant abstraction of the greenhouse.<br> <a href="http://plantincity.com/" target="_blank">http://plantincity.com/</a><br><br> <img src="http://plantincity.com/img/PIC_MarkMiller_1.jpg" width="516" height="343"><br><br></div><div> Here's a peek at my much less elegant basement growing station. I have a bank of fluorescent lights on chains hung over wire shelves - I usually get my bigger garden plants started two months before the May long weekend planting. The watering is all manual, but my lighting is set up on timers to run overnight to use non-peak electricity.<br><br> <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgwFCqpW4AAXsKA.jpg" width="530" height="530"><br></div><div><br></div> 3) Are there any agricultural-types on the list? What's new in farm technology?<br></div> I did a talk late last year about how a child's drawing of a tree wearing a fur coat led to a breakthrough in insulated polymeric seed coatings which allow seeds to be planted earlier in the year in cold climates. I've also read about some heavy LED investment in local greenhouses. Has anyone on a farm in the Ottawa Valley got an interesting project to share?<br><div><div><br></div><div> -Jason Cobill<br></div></div></div>
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