At 08:28 AM 3/16/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Yes, food plants seem to have evolved (with our help) to need
>a high performance environment. The common houseplants are
>often from very harsh environments and do not waste time
>producing edible parts. This would explain the narrow scope
>of most books on houseplants.
>
>I wonder what would happen if we began searching for edible
>houseplants and encouraging adaption. Would it be possible
>to develop something called "house ecology"? I know.. this
>probably sounds bizarre or impractical, but why not? We have
>these totally artificial homes that keep getting more
>mechanized each day. What would happen if we began to
>reverse the trend?
A very interesting book I recently read was Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by
William Woys Weaver . I was less interested in how to preserve seed than
in the histories of our more common vegetables. It would seem to me that
you could use many of the same techniques to develop edible indoor plants.
Gardening for the Future of the Earth by: Howard-Yana Shapiro, John
Harrisson is another very interesting book. It is an overview of many
current garden techniques by discussing John Jeavons, Wes Jackson, and
several others.
Don Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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