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More food, less water episode 1
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Elshout (The Netherlands) March 2013
This is episode 1 of the series ‘More food, less water, with Groasis’ Groasis did these vegetable trials with the Groasis Waterboxx during 2013 in The Netherlands.
The experiment has 2 objectives: - Can we grow vegetables with 90% less use of water and keep the production equal? - Can we replace artificial fertilizers through adding mycorrhiza (funguses) to the roots?
I’m Ton van Hulten, I’m working at GrowthBalance Advising Company.
We are doing this trial for Pieter Hoff.
The main goal of this experiment is to get the highest yield with the least amount of water.
My responsibility is to make sure that the crops grow well and keep healthy.
My name is Dr. Jacqueline Baar, I’m the founder and owner of the
independent advising agency Biomygreen,
specialized in sustainable soil technology.
The main goal of this experiment is to investigate whether we can grow crops,
like tomatoes, cucumbers etc.
with the least water use as possible.
It is very interesting to use a low quantity of water because one of the big issues worldwide is the limitation of water.
In this project the function I have is giving advice on the use of sustainable soil technology
particularly with plant beneficial fungi that act as biofertilizers.
The mycorrhizae is a fungus that transmits the nutrients and the water to the roots.
So they are the connector between the soil and the roots.
With their help the roots are able to take up the nutrients and the water, bring it up to the shoots, to the green parts of the plant,
and in exchange the plant provides sugars from the photosynthesis to the fungus.
The substrate you see here is mixed with the mycorrhizae.
With this vegetable trial, we are testing several species of mycorrhiza fungi.
We have treated this soil with mycorrhizae.
We do three periods of crops.
First we sow pepper and sweet pepper,
Than we sow tomatoes and after that we sow cucumber and zucchini.
We are covering the seeds with perlite.
This is a natural product made of volcanic stone.
We grow the young plants in this small covered greenhouse because of the climate.
Young plants cannot make their own climate because they have less leaves, so we have to create a good climate for them.
We transplant them to the big greenhouse 5 or 6 weeks after sowing.
Next time: Drilling the holes for the Waterboxx
Next time: The first results of mycorrhiza fungi treatment after just a few weeks
Producer: Groasis BV
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