Industrial Gardening-A Review

Emergency Gardening

About a year ago one of the neuro-psychiatric Emergency Hospitals ? added gardening to its other branches of occupational therapy. It has been suggested that my experiences during that year might be of interest to those engaged in, or about to undertake, similar work. As I consider that a number of rather vague general statements without chapter and verse are almost valueless, I have?in this ar...

On Gardening

for most things to develop their full capacity and prove their suitability or lack of it. A lot can go wrong. Trees that cast a large area of shade for smaller subjects or come into conflict with others through overcrowding ought to have been given more room or perhaps put to the east side when they should have been put to the west to protect others from the prevailing wind. But if one assumes ...

Rainwater harvesting: A gardening necessity in semi-arid regions

This research aims to introduce the water supply method required for pistachio orchards in semi-arid climatic regions using the rainwater harvesting technique. For this purpose, a rain catchment system with an area of 1000 m2 was constructed at the Tasuj Station site. Based on the mean annual rainfall of the region, runoff threshold, runoff coefficient for insulation surfaces and the area of th...

A Word or Two about Gardening

Gardening Cyber-Physical Systems

Today’s artefacts, from small devices to buildings and cities, are, or are becoming, cyber-physical socio-technical systems, with tightly interwoven material and computational parts. Currently, we have to laboriously build such systems, component by component, and the results are often difficult to maintain, adapt, and reconfigure. Even “soft”ware is brittle and non-trivial to adapt and change....