What do you do with your Plant (tomato) waste?

YEW · Nov 14, 2002

Dear Intelectuals...

I have Hydropnic Tomato plants that produces an average of 5 cubic meter of pruned leaves and stems as waste. Every month or so I will be discarding 200 cubic meter of cocopeat (media used in the culture).
To date, I just dumped them in a remote slope. This I find as a total waste. Does anyone outthere knows of anyway to reprocess these waste whereby it can be reused for anything at all. Personally, I am an advocate of simple technology, nothing fancy please.

Thanking all of you in advance.

flyboytim · Feb 18, 2003

soil conditioner/mulch - like spent hops, spent mushroom compost
Compost - rotted green waste plus cocopeat waste
Worm farms - fresh green waste
Snail farms - fresh green waste
Biogas - ferment green waste to produce methane
Liquid fertilizer - steep green waste until you have a mineral and nutrient rich solution, and a fiber residue
Fuel blocks - compressed plant fiber.

YEW · Feb 18, 2003

Snail farms?? First time I am hearing that.
How do u do that? Any good link for more literature to read up?

flyboytim · Feb 26, 2003

OK, edible snails, Helix pomatia, can be reared in polytunnels, sheds etc. Diet includes tomato greens Apparently well liked! try:

http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/AFSIC_pubs/srb96-05.htm#Introduction

Read the restrictions and regulations tho'!

YEW · Feb 26, 2003

Thank you very much.

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What do you do with your Plant (tomato) waste?

YEW

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flyboytim

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YEW

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flyboytim

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YEW

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