Posted on 03/08/2022 8:46:33 AM PST by orsonwb
Rick Bickling, The How Do Gardener, describes how inflation, rising fuel costs, and the Russia/Ukraine conflict will cause food prices to rise dramatically and how many items will just not be available. See what the experts are forecasting and see why you must start a garden now.
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Bkmrk
I can do zuchini and squash, bugs/slugs/birds eat all my tomatoes and peppers, im cursed
I started a snow garden, it’s doing great. 2 feet thick. In places now. Can’t wait til. Harvest time.
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
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...
also invest in lead and fences and bushes to hide things
Absolutely.
Some of y'all might consider that possibility.
Now? Can't I at least wait until the last frost day?
The squirrels are what really go after my garden. Tree rats.
Definitely something to look forward to.
Done, every year.
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.
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.
Indeed. There are much larger garden pests than potato bugs. Some with 2 legs.
NO!
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/
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