I caught a few minutes of TV yesterday and there was a program about growing potatoes in a desert using a non renewable reserve of prehistoric water.

There was not a plant for miles.

Beneath a sprinkler system which rotated once every 18 hours there was row after row of potatoes growing in the sand. The water was mixed with fertiliser and sprayed constantly.

The potatoes were beautiful - grown from imported Scottish seed, gathered up by hand and packed in peat brought from Ireland there are no pests, no diseases, so they are all organic.

It might make sense economically, but ecologically - crazy.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: