On Sep 22, 1:19 pm, (Ralph) wrote:
CanopyCo wrote:
On Sep 19, 9:24 pm, (Ralph) wrote:
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How much soil or buckets of soil would it take to sustain one person,
multipled by 2 in order to preserve enough to get through
the winter, but grown in a greenhouse to extend the season?

Thanks.

btw, can anybody recommend a good quality greenhouse fabric, the stuff
that covers a greenhouse to let light in, but not water and lasts years?

You have to remember that all the dust that is blowing around is also
radioactive.
That will contaminate anything that is not dust proof.

According to Cresson Kearny (in his videos I think) the biggest chunks
are the most dangerous because they hit the ground first, but the finest
dust takes the longest to reach the ground, up to a year. Therefore, the
radioactive dust will be the last to reach the ground and be very widely
dispersed.


Isn't anything that is in the blast zone now radioactive once the bomb
hits?
The dust from the blasted building would float around right off.
The dust from crushed up bigger chunks that you mentioned would also
be there.

I would think it would be easier and more productive to just scrape
off the top layer of a grader plot and then erect the green house over
that, instead of looking for a proper slab and removing that.

Less labor intensive, but more contaminated and the soil less
productive.



Possibly.
You would have to scrape down deep enough to get it all, just as you
would with the slab.
There is a bigger possibility of running out of top soil first with
the no slab method.
The no slab method has the advantage of better location.
It can be the best place for a garden instead of just where the
parking lot once was.