SOIL=LESS CULTIVATION
YIELDS FROM TOMATO PLANTS. USE OF NUTRIENT SOLUTION. In an address given by Mr Allan Monkhouse, electrical engineer, on soilless plant culture at a conference in Aberdeen, it was stated that tomato plants grown in a nutrient solution without soil, had given average yields as high at 91b per plant. The method of cultivation, Mr Monkhouse said, did not necessarily involve the use of electricity, but the practicability of growing out-of-season plants on a commercial scale depended upon a cheap supply of electricity and lighting equipment being available. The introduction of soil-less cultivation of vegetables and flowers, he said, opened up new possibilities in the larger cities and industrial areas, where, frequently, the small house-holder found himself without - a garden at all, or with a small garden in which the soil .was sour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 8 (Supplement)
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135SOIL=LESS CULTIVATION Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 8 (Supplement)
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