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Vermiculite only gardening indoors
gregorhanslik
Posts: 31
Hello gardeners,
when I was a kid, back in the eighties, my school class had an indoor gardening exercise where we grew bucketloads of vegetables indoors - mostly spinach (which is what we called Swiss Chard in Oz).
I remember my teacher calling it hydroponics. We grew it in a box, filled with pellets, which I think was vermiculite. No soil, all indoors, and it produced so much food we had to give it away.
Does anyone else remember this method, and does it work, or am I imagining things?
Ta ...
when I was a kid, back in the eighties, my school class had an indoor gardening exercise where we grew bucketloads of vegetables indoors - mostly spinach (which is what we called Swiss Chard in Oz).
I remember my teacher calling it hydroponics. We grew it in a box, filled with pellets, which I think was vermiculite. No soil, all indoors, and it produced so much food we had to give it away.
Does anyone else remember this method, and does it work, or am I imagining things?
Ta ...
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Ma used to grow chard years back ... it was called spinach beet or perpetual spinach back then.
http://www.realmensow.co.uk/?p=3300
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.