Abstract: A mini-garden bag, adapted to lie on a relatively flat surface, contains a suitable plant mix of nutrients appropriately fertilized and pH-adjusted as desired. The bag is pre-marked to be slit through at intervals (a) on its top surface to admit seeds or seedlings and water, and also (b) on its bottom surface to drain excess water. The absorption/reflectivity of the bag surface can be modified by the grower, as desired, by peeling away and/or by reattaching shiny or dark strips of the bag's exposed surface, to adjust the effect of sunlight on the interior temperature, thereby enabling growers to accentuate or to counter prevailing climate or some changes therein.

Abstract: Anti-combuation safeguarding of fuel and other combustible material confined in contact with a pre-existing overlying ambient atmosphere supportive of combustion. Such atmosphere is displaced by an underlying blanketing layer of heavier-than-air gaseous carbon dioxide evolving from solid non-combustible carbon dioxide located at a nearby site, from which it is distributed to site(s) of fuel or other combustible material. Such a method, together with apparatus to implement it, is applicable to fuel or other combustible material not only when stored at a fixed location, but also in a transport vehicle or craft of whatever type, and wherever located. Distributive flow of carbon dioxide to fuel sites in air, land, or marine craft may be accelerated in accordance with fuel consumption, and also in the event of occurrence of a spark or other hazard, as by applying radiation to the solid carbon dioxide so as to increase its existing rate of conversion into carbon dioxide gas.

Abstract: Food-portion surface sanitizing by liquid dipping or spraying with an antimicrobial composition appropriate for human consumption. Suitable as such sanitizing composition is an aqueous solution about two-thirds ethanol by volume, and containing minor concentrations of dissolved salt and/or tannin, each up to several percent by weight.