Yep, sounds like yet another boffer has revisited an old and confirmed way
to set agriculture back another 25 years. Must not have any publications to
learn from or transportation to go see things where he comes from.

Concrete blocks, even aside from the petrochemical and organic aspects, are
hardly assets to any serious gardening venture.

And this is the sci.agriculture newsgroup? Just gotta be a misnomer
somewheres.

Seems two posts with a top support between them and twine down to each plant
is much more of this century and especially if indeterminate tomatoes are
planted which are trained around the twine to grow 5-6 feet tall. Easy to
maintain, takes up minimal space and you can pick the tomatoes standing up.
If birds become a problem, voila, the support furnishes a platform from
which to droop bird netting in front of the plants without disturbing them.
The tomatoes, that is. The hell with the birds.

Oh, you have bush tomatoes?? Well suffer along then but the wire cages are a
boon and work well if the plants do not get too heavy and you coax them
around a tad..

But don't mind me, just passing on a tidbit learned in gardening 101

Cheers
-=-
Jim Cluny


"V_coerulea" wrote in message
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I doubt it. What with the oil it takes to mine the components, transport
them, mix them and then dry the final product in the "ovens". Not to
mention the delivery cost of the block to the destination and moving large
quantities around. To be sure, each year of use depreciates the "oil
value".
But I think it's still quite high, especially for an experimental project.

"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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"Archimedes Plutonium" wrote in message
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Now I suspect that in the future when agriculture does not use one
drop
of
petroleum on farming and where about 50% of Earth's population is
working
to produce food and where Earth has a controlled total population of
about
2 billion people and no more.

So these block not only become the ideal method of gardening but in
the
distant future become the ideal method of Farming.

wonder if he has ever stopped to think what the oil cost of concrete
blocks
is

Jim Webster