Berlin Farm Lab

This blog is a research about systems for domestic production of all goods for contemporary living (electricity, biogas, food, biodiesel, heat, water). Ways of food cultivation, diet models, cooking techniques aiming to less processed food, alleviation of domestic waste and reuse of waste materials are also part of the research. EXPERIMENT: all acts done by the researcher REFERENCE: found data A project by Valentina Karga with the support of the Univesität der Kunst Berlin - Graduate School.

Thriving since 1960, my garden in a bottle: Seedling sealed in its own ecosystem and watered just once in 53 years

David Latimer first planted his bottle garden in 1960 and last watered it in 1972 before tightly sealing it shut ‘as an experiment’
The hardy spiderworts plant inside has grown to fill the 10-gallon container by surviving entirely on recycled air, nutrients and water

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Thriving since 1960, my garden in a bottle: Seedling sealed in its own ecosystem and watered just once in 53 years

David Latimer first planted his bottle garden in 1960 and last watered it in 1972 before tightly sealing it shut ‘as an experiment’
The hardy spiderworts plant inside has grown to fill the 10-gallon container by surviving entirely on recycled air, nutrients and water

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2267504/The-sealed-bottle-garden-thriving-40-years-fresh-air-water.html#ixzz2KFIh0Vlg