Can Photosynthesis be enhanced?

 


 I once tried using red plastic as a means to give the crops more useful
light.  That was in my Dad's garden now gone. So I am stuck with much
shade and a oak scorch disease so I am very reluctant to take out
healthy trees.

 So groping  for a way to deal with lack of sun was wondering would a
mirror convey the full spectrum for my plants?  Or must I cut till the
plants say OK?  
  Son broke a large mirror that I have held onto hoping for a use.

 It is not that I have not looked about but I favor natural /cheap stuff.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6110867.html

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Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
     What use one more wake up call?  
http://ocg6.marine.usf.edu/~liu/Drifters/latest_roms.htm

 

Bill who putters wrote:

Something here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_spectrum

   That was in my Dad's garden now gone. So I am stuck with much

Metalized mylar might be a thought, very cheap. Stretch it on a frame,
probably cut some flaps to cut wind loading. Or just cut in strips so
wind can blow through.

   Jeff

 



<http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/how-to-use-reflected-light-to-boost-
indoor-food-production/>
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

http://radwisdom.com/essays/this-is-your-brain/

 

In article


 Thanks Jeff and Billy.

 I still think the shading trees must be culled.  

 I'll do this in small increments striving to get stuff and let other
stuff live.  I am constrained by a neighbor that does not have a clue
and my brothers on the left. I can talk my brother into a possible
remedy but I sort of feel even with the "great dimming light " issue it
will be most likely I can grow mostly greens.
  Such is life but I do have Tomatoes and Jumbo beans on the verge of
entering my body.  Lots of Thyme and mint but I really miss the sun in
some fundamental way.

--
Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
     What use one more wake up call?  
http://ocg6.marine.usf.edu/~liu/Drifters/latest_roms.htm

 



Any chance of going vertical to get more light? Either vines (pole
beans, or climbing zucchini (<http://agsyst.wsu.edu/Zucchetta.html> ),
keyhole gardens, or hanging pots?
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

http://radwisdom.com/essays/this-is-your-brain/