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You MUST Start a Garden NOW
The How Do Gardener ^ | February 26, 2022 | The How Do Gardener

Posted on 03/08/2022 8:46:33 AM PST by orsonwb

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Seen a lot of people talking about this stuff, but this video quotes a lot of respected sources. Scary stuff.
1 posted on 03/08/2022 8:46:33 AM PST by orsonwb
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To: orsonwb; Diana in Wisconsin

2 posted on 03/08/2022 8:47:20 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Bkmrk


3 posted on 03/08/2022 8:51:03 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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One lesson I learned from taking Nutrition 101 for my nursing prerequisites is this: You can survive for a long time on rice and beans. Stock up on rice and beans and yes, start a home garden.
4 posted on 03/08/2022 8:51:39 AM PST by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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I can do zuchini and squash, bugs/slugs/birds eat all my tomatoes and peppers, im cursed


5 posted on 03/08/2022 8:53:21 AM PST by baclava
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I started a snow garden, it’s doing great. 2 feet thick. In places now. Can’t wait til. Harvest time.


6 posted on 03/08/2022 8:53:54 AM PST by Bob434
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Try some plant netting over the tomatoes. We have to do that for the strawberries and cherry trees and blueberries. The raspberries not so much


7 posted on 03/08/2022 8:55:32 AM PST by Bob434
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I have a nice big greenhouse here on the farm... I have never used it. Now seems like a good time.

I know nothing about gardening, but I suppose I can figure something out... gardens were my late sister’s thing.

I have two wells here, one is a shallow well in a stone well-house and I need to figure out how to get a hand-pump installed in there...in case of a power failure.

I have a 1500gal water tank that can gravity feed to the house, I need to fill that....soon.

We live in interesting times...


8 posted on 03/08/2022 8:56:45 AM PST by Bobalu (The Deep State is the new Soviet Union)
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also invest in lead and fences and bushes to hide things


9 posted on 03/08/2022 8:56:56 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: shadowlands1960

Absolutely.


10 posted on 03/08/2022 8:57:41 AM PST by orsonwb
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I don't have access to any land, so I have a pretty good container garden going in my windows.

Some of y'all might consider that possibility.

11 posted on 03/08/2022 8:58:31 AM PST by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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You MUST Start a Garden NOW

Now? Can't I at least wait until the last frost day?

12 posted on 03/08/2022 8:58:57 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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The squirrels are what really go after my garden. Tree rats.


13 posted on 03/08/2022 8:59:04 AM PST by orsonwb
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To: Bob434

Definitely something to look forward to.


14 posted on 03/08/2022 9:00:41 AM PST by orsonwb
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Done, every year.


15 posted on 03/08/2022 9:02:03 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: Bobalu

Interesting times indeed. Sounds like you’ve got a great place for gardening. Start small, and expand as long as you can still manage everything. Square Foot Gardening is a good technique to use.


16 posted on 03/08/2022 9:02:55 AM PST by orsonwb
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Thinking the same thing...in a few weeks, I will do some starting. I keep a large garden normally, and I have a lot fruit trees I’ve been putting in as well.


17 posted on 03/08/2022 9:02:55 AM PST by ferret_airlift
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Indeed. There are much larger garden pests than potato bugs. Some with 2 legs.


18 posted on 03/08/2022 9:03:48 AM PST by orsonwb
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NO!


19 posted on 03/08/2022 9:04:31 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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Weekly Garden Thread - https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4043925/posts

Check my profile page for tons of info taken from previous garden threads and links to my cloud which has a ton of gardening info, including 30 pdf files of info on greenhouses. https://freerepublic.com/~pollard/


20 posted on 03/08/2022 9:04:32 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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