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Instant Tomatoes. All this does not mean that Americans are no longer enthralled by gadgets and gimmickry. More than 20,000 Rotocrop "Accelerator" compost bins were sold last year at about $40 each, and sales are expected to more than double this year. The bin is merely a 3-ft.-high plastic cylinder, specially ventilated for turning garden and kitchen wastes quickly into compost. Students at the University of Miami enjoy almost instant tomatoes hydroponically grown by pouring liquid fertilizer into baskets filled with wood shavings outside their dorm windows. "Tomato rings"-wire-mesh cages about 4 ft. wide...
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