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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

TIK - you are way ahead of me in knowledge. But I found root crops to be good in a guerilla garden several years back. I put them near a creek out in the country so they would have some moisture but of course high enough to not rot. Used potatoes, carrots and turnips. Also scattered some cabbage around tho I think the jackrabbits got that. I put these near a swimming hole. Took the kids swimming there and other folks don’t typically know to look for those root veggies.

I got this notion before I ever heard of guerilla gardening because the county sheriff eliminated someone’s illegal crop in the area. I thought if that would grow, other things would work too :)


64 posted on 02/11/2017 10:28:25 AM PST by Wneighbor (A pregnant woman is responsible for TWO lives, not one. (It's a wonderful "deplorable" truth))
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To: Wneighbor
Wneighbor :" ..you are way ahead of me in knowledge.
But I found root crops to be good in a guerilla garden several years back."

I don't know about that, but I believe that it's just my enthusiasm for gardening.
When I went to MG training several decades ago, we were encouraged to assist community gardens in the inner-city, and/ or to answer telephone questions from consumers.
When answering phone questions, we had a five foot high rotating resource library, about half the size of a volkswagon, with books, pamphlets, MSDS sheets,
and all herbicide/pesticide data sheets. Alas, much of the information which we had then is outdated and may now be illegal for the general home consumer.
I consider the idea of guerilla gardening an extension of urban gardening or prepping for difficult times
using natural plant camouflage where the uninformed see the plants in plain sight without realizing it to be a food source.

65 posted on 02/11/2017 11:13:42 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu--> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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