Lunar soil, is it good for plants?

I been pondering what the grey moon soil is really like and whether
you can simply "just add water" to make it suitable for plants!
Seriously, does the soil on the moon need to have organic nutrients to
support plants or can you turn lunar soil into growing soil just by
adding water?

You could argue the same for soil on Mars and the asteroids.

BC

Bill Carson wrote:

I been pondering what the grey moon soil is really like and whether
you can simply "just add water" to make it suitable for plants!
Seriously, does the soil on the moon need to have organic nutrients to
support plants or can you turn lunar soil into growing soil just by
adding water?

You could argue the same for soil on Mars and the asteroids.

Time to re-read "Farmer In the Sky."

Bill Carson wrote:

I been pondering what the grey moon soil is really like and whether
you can simply "just add water" to make it suitable for plants!
Seriously, does the soil on the moon need to have organic nutrients to
support plants or can you turn lunar soil into growing soil just by
adding water?

You could argue the same for soil on Mars and the asteroids.

Time to re-read "Farmer In the Sky."

You would need to take some earth soil with you, have a controled temp
building and mix the two and start off with the low forms of plants and
slowly move upward. Best thing to do would be to take one ship's worth of
good soil and set up a good growing project and then start mixing in the
moon dirt(??) in with it in small amounts. Use a green crop like soybean
that helps and ads food and can be used as food too.

Garden in the High Mojave Desert

"Bill Carson "
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I been pondering what the grey moon soil is really like and whether
you can simply "just add water" to make it suitable for plants!
Seriously, does the soil on the moon need to have organic nutrients to
support plants or can you turn lunar soil into growing soil just by
adding water?

You could argue the same for soil on Mars and the asteroids.

BC

You would need to take some earth soil with you, have a controled temp
building and mix the two and start off with the low forms of plants and
slowly move upward. Best thing to do would be to take one ship's worth of
good soil and set up a good growing project and then start mixing in the
moon dirt(??) in with it in small amounts. Use a green crop like soybean
that helps and ads food and can be used as food too.

Garden in the High Mojave Desert

"Bill Carson "
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I been pondering what the grey moon soil is really like and whether
you can simply "just add water" to make it suitable for plants!
Seriously, does the soil on the moon need to have organic nutrients to
support plants or can you turn lunar soil into growing soil just by
adding water?

You could argue the same for soil on Mars and the asteroids.

BC

starlord wrote:
You would need to take some earth soil with you, have a controled temp
building and mix the two and start off with the low forms of plants and
slowly move upward. Best thing to do would be to take one ship's worth of
good soil and set up a good growing project and then start mixing in the
moon dirt(??) in with it in small amounts. Use a green crop like soybean
that helps and ads food and can be used as food too.

Garden in the High Mojave Desert


You could just treat it as the support medium and use drip hydroponics
to feed it - water would cost more than gold anyway, so you'd need to
close the water cycle.

Steve

Greenhouse in Manchester UK.

starlord wrote:
You would need to take some earth soil with you, have a controled temp
building and mix the two and start off with the low forms of plants and
slowly move upward. Best thing to do would be to take one ship's worth of
good soil and set up a good growing project and then start mixing in the
moon dirt(??) in with it in small amounts. Use a green crop like soybean
that helps and ads food and can be used as food too.

Garden in the High Mojave Desert


You could just treat it as the support medium and use drip hydroponics
to feed it - water would cost more than gold anyway, so you'd need to
close the water cycle.

Steve

Greenhouse in Manchester UK.

Steve Taylor wrote in message ...

Garden in the High Mojave Desert

You could just treat it as the support medium and use drip hydroponics
to feed it - water would cost more than gold anyway, so you'd need to
close the water cycle.

Steve

Greenhouse in Manchester UK.


Is "Japanese Knotweed" (Polygonium cuspidatum) edible?

Could it be genetically modified to be edible?

It's the only plant I know that would stand a chance being exposed to
hard radiation, a near total vacuum, no water and astronauts in big
boots jumping on it. I expect it's already thriving on the Moon from
micro-contamination from the Apollo landings. The Moon will shortly
turn green and develope an atmosphere. You just won't be able to move
up there for the damned shrubbery! ;-)

What about Rhododendron ponticum? :-)

Chris.B

Lean-to Solar Greenhouse/conservatory in rural Denmark
(erected where the sun don't shine!) ;-)

Steve Taylor wrote in message ...

Garden in the High Mojave Desert

You could just treat it as the support medium and use drip hydroponics
to feed it - water would cost more than gold anyway, so you'd need to
close the water cycle.

Steve

Greenhouse in Manchester UK.


Is "Japanese Knotweed" (Polygonium cuspidatum) edible?

Could it be genetically modified to be edible?

It's the only plant I know that would stand a chance being exposed to
hard radiation, a near total vacuum, no water and astronauts in big
boots jumping on it. I expect it's already thriving on the Moon from
micro-contamination from the Apollo landings. The Moon will shortly
turn green and develope an atmosphere. You just won't be able to move
up there for the damned shrubbery! ;-)

What about Rhododendron ponticum? :-)

Chris.B

Lean-to Solar Greenhouse/conservatory in rural Denmark
(erected where the sun don't shine!) ;-)

There is no such thng as lunar "soil". Technically, the powder on the
surface of the boon and the broken rocks eneath are called "regolith"
which is a soil-like material without any biological content.
The same goes for Mars and the asteroids; there is no "soil", only regolith.

Matthew Ota

Bill Carson wrote:

I been pondering what the grey moon soil is really like and whether
you can simply "just add water" to make it suitable for plants!
Seriously, does the soil on the moon need to have organic nutrients to
support plants or can you turn lunar soil into growing soil just by
adding water?

You could argue the same for soil on Mars and the asteroids.

BC