Ancient Gardening Methods?

Dfk88

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Does anybody know anything like this, or even just unusual ways to grow thigs in general? I've suddenly become interested in unique things that other people way before us did. Whether it has to do with the soil or where the plants are put or how they cut them, anything. Thanks in advance for your help!
 

Hydrotech364

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You need to be a little more specific,tons of old books on the growing and conversion into different compounds and concentrates....Willow bark rooting hormones,nature friendly pesticides, so many topics..
 

Dfk88

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Like I mean people like the Egyptians and the Chinese among others I'm sure came up with a lot of different ways to do things that were exclusive to that area of the world right?
 

MonkeyGrinder

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Asians were big on cultivating rice. It was pretty much the main part in all of their diets. The water systems they used were pretty awesome. There's a Jet Li film called Fearless. About half way through there's a scene where he's planting rice. The camera pans out and there's an example of a very complex one. You can see a lot of scenes in Vietnam films of people working in rice fields.
 

Dfk88

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Asians were big on cultivating rice. It was pretty much the main part in all of their diets. The water systems they used were pretty awesome. There's a Jet Li film called Fearless. About half way through there's a scene where he's planting rice. The camera pans out and there's an example of a very complex one. You can see a lot of scenes in Vietnam films of people working in rice fields.
Thanks, it's exactly things like that, that I'm looking for
 

direwolf71

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Asians were big on cultivating rice. It was pretty much the main part in all of their diets. The water systems they used were pretty awesome. There's a Jet Li film called Fearless. About half way through there's a scene where he's planting rice. The camera pans out and there's an example of a very complex one. You can see a lot of scenes in Vietnam films of people working in rice fields.
How's this for complex...images (28).jpg
 

farmasensist

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The indians had a garden technique called three sisters. I think it was corn, pole beans, and squash. The beans would grow up the corn stalks for support and the corn would shade the squash and the squash would scare away bugs or something, i forget but the three crops would worked together.
 

mouse1818

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The indians had a garden technique called three sisters. I think it was corn, pole beans, and squash. The beans would grow up the corn stalks for support and the corn would shade the squash and the squash would scare away bugs or something, i forget but the three crops would worked together.
I heard of this too its called companion planting.
 

T.H.Cammo

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I'm not really sure what you are looking for here. Are you trying to improve some growing techniques - or do you just want to study some old and unusual methods?

The way I look at it "not so good techniques" evolve into "better techniques", not the other way around. That's why "State Of The Art" always means "This is the absolute best we can do (up to this point in time)".
 

Dfk88

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I'm not really sure what you are looking for here. Are you trying to improve some growing techniques - or do you just want to study some old and unusual methods?

The way I look at it "not so good techniques" evolve into "better techniques", not the other way around. That's why "State Of The Art" always means "This is the absolute best we can do (up to this point in time)".
Old and unusual is what i know looking for
 

RM3

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I use the Gas Lantern Routine to veg, it is over 100 years old, thusly named because they used gas lanterns as street lights back then

It is awesome
 
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