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RESEARCH ARTICLE

A simple automatic irrigation system for growing plants in sand culture

RK Osborn and BC Hanger

Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture and Animal Husbandry 9(38) 367 - 368
Published: 1969

Abstract

A method is described in which an electrically driven rotary vane pump (commercially produced for use in motor vehicles for washing windscreens) is used to irrigate sand with nutrient solutions.

https://doi.org/10.1071/EA9690367

© CSIRO 1969

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