izentrop wrote:I also thought that the small sentence at the end should not have pleased the "Parisian" or other city dweller, stuck in his apartment who still tries to compost his waste in lactofermentation or vermicompost and who despite everything, manages to maintain the fertility of your planters and cultivate on your balcony (if! it exists) ...
"I do not deny it!" (me one day, almost 40 years ago, opposed a cop deep in the bush in Mali!)
Of course, that did not please. But I consider that "being dead but still alive", I am not there to please. I answered the truth to the question put to me: no, what I am doing does not apply to a balcony planter, which works with much more "anthropization" - that is, artificialization. Culture media, fertilizers (even "organic"), possibly lighting ...
Which does not mean that it does not work.
Of course, man can maintain a form of fertility in such an artificial system. I do not dispute that hydroponics works. But those who blame conventional farmers for using fertilizer should question these systems where fertilization comes by nutrient solution - and sometimes light by LEDs.
Urban agriculture is currently a fad - "we play it". It occupies the mind. And hides the essential.
This will remain insignificant - except for the "psychological" and educational aspects. Yes, it is good for morale to grow a bunch of parsley in an Ikea flowerpot with LED lights. It occupies the mind. But it's also like a drug: it obscures reality.
My answer may not have been good for sales - but that's what I think. And what I said is in line with what I think. And not what I felt I had to say to boost my sales!