The Coming Food Price Inflation

Prices from the Food City Grocery Chain | 4/19/21 | bert

[greeneyes]

I used a clear plastic bin to tuck in the lettuce in potting mix bag. Still have a table with some hardy stuff on it-no more room indoors—hope they survive ok.

Leaving the garlic as is - has a layer of straw mulch. We’ll see how it goes.

[greeneyes]

Glad to provide some cheerful entertainment. Ha.

[metmom]

The garlic will be fine.

I’ve grown garlic for years and it can handle about anything.

When I plant my rows, I lay a strip of landscape fabric between the rows and then mulch the whole thing with straw. It does a wonderful job of keeping the weeds down, which are hard to get to when the garlic gets tall.

I am also going to be using cardboard for my walkways between rows to help with keeping the weeds down. Keeping the weeds at bay reduces by garden work required by probably 80 %.

That translates into me being able to keep up with it without living out there.

[greeneyes]

I’m likin’ the cardboard idea. We ordered so much stuff on line @ the beginning of the “plandemic” till we could learn more about it, that we have a huge stack of cardboard(hubby took them apart so that they lay flat)in one of the spare bedrooms.

Although, this was actually the first year that I had any weeds growing in my garlic. It was a bunch of chickweed and wild mint. The other patch doesn’t seem to have much of a problem-it did have a heavier mulch of straw than the first one. I got 2 beds of taters planted - I’m wishing I had planted them a bit deeper now.

I covered a bunch of plants in the green house with a double layer of row cover lettuces, beets, and herbs. One batch of lettuce is under a plastic tub in the green house. Everything else is in the house.

Rosemary and Dill ain’t likin’ the changes moving in and out of the house and greenhouse.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Youtube on Survivalist gardening / Permaculture gardening.
(Posted to the gardening thread as well.)

PBS Special - Overview of the Secret Garden of Survival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ajde6oT7o

click SurvivalistGardener and you will have a full list of his videos.

If we ever get to the point where gardening and canning become “hoarding crimes against the people” it would be good to have hidden permaculture gardens to fall back on.

(I say this and here I am stuck in the suburbs! Ornamental cabbage plantings to wow the neighbors!)

Off to the yard!

[greeneyes]

Ha. Our yard is full of edible weeds. Hubby makes sure to leave all edibles to self sow.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

D.H....Self healing plumbing, self seeding edibles, I detect a pattern here!

https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/new-items-2020/japanese-white-dandelion

“Japanese White Dandelion
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(Taraxacum albidum)

Perennial. In Japan, white dandelion is held in high esteem. A white-flowered member of the dandelion family, this species, Taraxacum albidum, is specifically found growing wild in southern Japan. It is not considered an aggressive or weedy dandelion variety. Instead, it is celebrated in its native land as a useful food and medicine plant. Its delicately bitter leaves are lightly boiled into Ohitashi. The snow-white blooms are lightly battered and fried for tempura, and the long tap root is favored both for its culinary potential and its medicinal benefits. Try growing a trifecta of dandelions in pink, yellow and white for a perfectly pretty pastel presentation!”

(They are growing in one of my trays right now! Yes! I am a rebel!)

[Ellendra]

Try the Millville brand cereals from Aldi’s. They taste like the big brands used to, at a fraction of the price.

In fact, a lot of treats sold at Aldi’s taste like the way I remember treats tasting when I was a kid. From swiss rolls to vanilla wafers. It can be dangerous if you’re on a diet!

[greeneyes]

They are growing in our yard right now. Hubby planted some seeds—Perennials are big on the agenda now, as we get older.