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The roof garden grows everything from aubergines, tomatoes and chilli peppers to herbs and watermelons.
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Aubergines sit on small piles of sand, surrounded by instructions for their care and propagation.
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Now they are growing melons, tomatoes, onions and aubergines, and they raise ducks as well as chickens.
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Cover with a plate of the same size and add a heavy weight on top (such as a large bottle of water) so that water can be squeezed out of the aubergines.
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Specifically they discovered that Pythium ultimum, a fungus that attacks aubergines, peppers, lettuces, tomatoes and cucumbers as seedlings, Clavibacter michiganensis, a bacterium that kills young plants and deforms fruits, and Streptomyces scabies, a second bacterium, which causes potatoes to develop revolting scabs and for which no treatment currently exists, all stopped growing in the presence of the oil.
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