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土地がない人は箱庭菜園
 30センチ四方の竹かごに豆4株、コスレタスは9株元気に育つ | 底に水はけ用の穴があって、土を入れても大丈夫なほとんどの入れ物に立派な野菜はちゃんと育つ。目の付け所と想像力をフル活動させると、いろんな「ゴミ」がコンテナ農園の容器に早変わり。
私たちは古い浴槽の底にドリルで穴をあけて南瓜やサツマイモを植えたり、プラスチックの20リットルタンクを一部切り取ってトマトやジャガイモを植えたり、直径1メートルほどの大きな竹かごや1フット(30センチ)四方の小さな竹かごで、バナナや豆やレタスや小松菜などなんでも育てた。竹かごは水はけが良すぎるから、内側の壁はゴミ袋を張って使っている。種は牛乳パックやヨーグルトのカップに土を入れて蒔き、苗が育ったところでコンテナ農園か畑に植え替える。 レタス畑を持ち上げる緑。「手づくり企画」の有機農園にて。 | 洗面器いっぱいにアロエを植えたり、竜模様の大きな壺にパパイアを植えたり、カラフルな中国壺にキンポウゲを植えたりもした。何しろ私たちのビーチハウスにはセメント台しかなかったから。
ゴミ捨て場に捨ててあったトイレの便器に何か植えようかとも思ったけれど、ピンクの色が気に入らなかったので、この案は止めにした。
「窓際やテラスやベランダや屋上で、驚くほどたくさんの野菜を育てることができる。コンテナ農園は小さくても、得る物はとても大きい」- Chuck Crandall and Barbara Crandall『(動かせる畑の収穫)Movable Harvests』
縦型畑の柱を作ると、0.1平方メートルの場所に1.1平方メートルの耕作面積を作り出すことができる。 See Growing columns.
食糧不足で悩む人たちが多い途上国のスラムでは、コンテナ・ガーデニングが貴重な食べ物を提供している。「都市農園」を参照。
私たちは中国のカラフルなエナメル壺に穴をあけ、キンポウゲ科のCreeping Buttercupを3本さしておいたら、壺からどんどん蔓を伸ばして畑を囲み始めた。セメントの上に溜まった砂やチリを根でかき集めながら、自分で土を作っているみたい。日照りにも台風にもビクともしないで、伸びるたびに切り取って堆肥つくりの材料に使っている。
コンテナ・ガーデニングの情報集(英文)
メMovable Harvests ミ The Simplicity & Bounty of Container Gardensモ by Chuck Crandall & Barbara Crandall, Chapters, Vermont, 1995, ISBN 1-881527-70-0, $19.95.
Anything that grows in a conventional garden can be grown in a container ミ even asparagus, pumpkins, corn, and apples, apricots, peaches, pears, figs, and bananas. The authors ミ seasoned メbucket gardenersモ ミ grow 90% of their produce in a variety of containers. Lots of useful advice from the experts. From Chapters:
http://www.chapters.ca/books/
From ECHO's global bookstore:
http://echonet.org/shopsite_sc/store/html/MovableHarvests.html
メGardening in Containersモ by Robert J. Beckstrom and Michael D. Smith, 1996
メEveryone, everywhere, even urban apartment and condominium dwellers, can have a green space to call their own.モ How to select flowers, fruits, vegetables, vines, shrubs, and trees ミ extensive plant encyclopaedia provides detailed growing instructions for more than 150 plants suited to container gardening. Design guidelines for a practical, attractive garden for whatever space you may have. Choosing containers, transplanting, soil mixes, watering, and fertilising. From ECHO's global bookstore:
http://echonet.org/shopsite_sc/store/html/GardeningContainers.html
メAbove-Ground Gardensモ by Dr. Martin L. Price & Laura S. Meitzner, 1996, ECHO Technical Note (reprinted from Ch 17 of ECHOユs book Amaranth to Zai Holes, 1996), Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO)
Urban food production is often overlooked by development planners. There is considerable potential to involve millions of city families in food production, who may not at first seem to have anywhere to garden ミ where there is plenty of sunshine but either no soil or the soil does not lend itself to cultivation. ECHO and others have developed メabove-groundモ techniques suited for such sites: the countless hectares of sturdy, flat cement rooftops and many more hectares of tin roofs on insubstantial shanties, steep hillsides, extremely poor soils, yards of rock or cement, spaces around tree roots, and places where land tenure is so unstable that only portable gardens are attractive. ECHO has been working on methods for gardening in such situations since 1982. Online: http://www.echonet.org/Technotes/AboveGround.html Full-length version, in Amaranth to Zai Holes: http://www.echonet.org/azillus/azch17.htm
Windowbox.com ミ all the information and supplies you need to grow flowers, vegetables, and herbs in any container on your porch, deck, terrace, patio, or windowsill. Good resources and advice, expert-system answers plant questions, site search. http://www.windowbox.com/
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GardenGuidesユ Container Gardening Guide Sheets are a useful source of instant information: 21 different guides. The two-page basic Guide to Container Gardening covers Choosing containers, Growing mixture, Sunlight, Fertilizer, Watering, What to grow? on the first page, while the second page deals with vegetables: common vegetables listed with type of container and recommended variety, linked to references on each vegetable covering types, conditions, maintenance and harvest, pests, recipes and useful links. The website has hundreds of other guides on all aspects of gardening, and further resources. Guide to Container Gardening: http://www.gardenguides.com/TipsandTechniques/container.htm Guide to Container Gardening (Page 2): http://www.gardenguides.com/TipsandTechniques/container2.htm
Container gardening tips ミ what size and type of containers to use, where to put them, tips on soil. http://www.organic.mcmail.com/contain.htm
The Rooftop Gardens Resource Group of Toronto has a good set of resources on gardening in the air ミ without collapsing your roof with too much heavy soil! Resources on roofing, structural considerations and building codes. メIt is the strong belief of this group that rooftop gardens represent an opportunity to greatly enhance the urban landscape, offering a richer lifestyle which balances environment health and integrity with the vitality of the city.モ http://www.interlog.com/~rooftop/
 ビーチハウスの台所の屋上では南瓜が思い切り蔓を伸ばしている | メThe Green Roof Monitorモ reports on greening the rooftops of city buildings in Toronto, Chicago, and European cities. In Germany, 10% of all flat roofs have gardens ミ over 55 million square metres of green roof infrastructure in place since 1989. Almost 50% of German cities (77 cities) have programs in place that support the development and growth of a market for green roof infrastructure. In Chicago, the city environment department plans to plant gardens atop several city buildings as part of a US Environmental Protection Agency program studying ways to help cool cities and reduce smog. The Green Roof Monitor is published by City Farmer, Canadaユs Office of Urban Agriculture, first two editions online ミ Summer and Winter 1999. http://www.cityfarmer.org/GreenRoof.html#greenroof
Container Farming ミ Organic food production in the slums of Mexico City. Fifteen million Mexicans live in extreme poverty ミ above all in urban marginal areas like the slums of Mexico City. Some seven years ago a group of NGOs launched a project to help people there to grow their own food organically in small backyards or patios, balconies, roof tops ミ as a way to help counteract the poverty being imposed upon them. This is the report on the project, by sociologist and community worker Rodrigo A. Medell地 Erdmann. http://gate.gtz.de/gate_mag/gate_95_3/texte/focus_7.html#noframes
Fokke van Katwijkユs Toyota Corolla garden in Amsterdam Mobile harvests: guidelines and instructions on turning your car into a garden, from Amsterdamユs Private car & garden site ミ they call it メcreative conversion of parking placesモ. http://huizen.dds.nl/~autotuin/ cargarden.html  こんな入れ物も・・・フロリダで車を畑にしてしまった |
Urban Garden ミ a 12-month journal of a container garden in in the heart of Vancouver. メThere are more than 70 containers, completely surrounded by city, with a tiny view of the ocean.モ With details of plants, plus chores, and hints. Three-year views for each month, resources and links. Award-winning site ミ simple, elegant, useful. Fine photographs. http://www.urbangarden.com/
Container Gardening forum at Garden Web ミ active forum for online discussion, search function. http://www.gardenweb.com/forums/contain/
Vegetable Seed Varieties for Containers ミ Suite101.com. A lot more seed companies are selling vegetable seeds specially bred to meet the small-space needs of container gardening. Hereユs a useful list of varieties, eg: メCucumber ヤSalad Bushユ (56 days) ミ 22 inch vine, full sized slicing cucumbers.モ http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/container_gardening/32565
Clupperユs Organic Gardens, Inc. of Arizona promotes garbage bag gardens for education and for food-growing round the world. The system cuts out fertiliser use and saves on water using heavily composted soil (Clupperユs proprietory Living Soil Mixture) and a specially made plastic bag, but ordinary garbage bags will do (use two, one inside the other), and so will ordinary compost you can make yourself. http://www.nonprofitnet.com/cog/
Container Gardening by Diane Relf, Extension Specialist, Environmental Horticulture, Virginia Cooperative Extension. メRaising fresh, nutritious, homegrown vegetables in containers. A window sill, patio, balcony, or doorstep can provide sufficient space for a productive container garden.モ Good general advice: Introduction, Watering, Containers, Fertilizing, Potting Soil, General Care, Planting, Indoor Container Gardening. http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/general/container.html
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