Space gardeners

‘ Some Martian dirt has the same basic chemistry as garden soil, a new analysis from the Phoenix lander suggests. The find widens the range of organisms that might be able to live on Mars'.. today - New Scientist

Now this tickles me on several layers. Could this be a place we could send all those TV gardeners who drive you nuts, gleefully describing the zillions ways you can take a plant out of one pot and then put it in another. Or how to best make a hole in the ground and then… well maybe put a plant in it?

Maybe we can grow oilseed rape and turn it form the red planet to the yellow planet like our countryside.

Or maybe, if the gravity is less - and I really don ‘t know if it is so go with me on this one - we could grew increasingly ludicrously sized vegetables. Now wouldn’t that be an allotment show?

To boldy plant lobelia where no man has planted lobelia before.

Stop me now.

Any suggestions to this string welcome