Posted on 03/08/2022 8:46:33 AM PST by orsonwb
Stock spices, dried to add variety to those rice and beans. Also, common herbs and spice are easy to grow in a home garden, even a window garden.
If your have never used a greenhouse, know that the biggest threat in the summer is over-heating. Plan for ventilation and even shade. Water is an obvious need.
Same.
In 1990 I visited Switzerland
I took the train from Zurich to Lucerne.
Once outside the city out in the country we came to one of the first stops.
There were hundreds of garden plots right near the station along the tracks.
I asked a local who told me that people who live in apartments in Zurich rented the garden plots so they could grow some of their own fresh vegetables.
It gave me a lot of respect for the Swiss people.
I don’t have anything close to a green thumb. We have the land but really poor soil and lots of critters to combat from deer to squirrels. We tried gardening for several years and not one handful of tomatoes and some cukes but smallish and not super plentiful, I guess we’ll go buy up a bunch of rice and beans.
I think they mean seedlings.
They have allotments in the UK as well. Had one behind our house. Our cat loved to hunt there.
True, you can survive on rice & beans. However, you will need very good nutrition to stay healthy under the stresses we have and will come to endure.
One DOES NOT need a green thumb to put in a row bean seeds in some dirt + water. The payout is huge!
Just watching last night’s Tucker Carlson and he said;
Urea - ingredient in fertilizer
$265/ton last year
$846/ this year
“Finally got some live traps, baited them with peanuts...and in 3 days time I took out 7 of them.”
What kind of a squirrel trap do you use?
Some Democrat described farming as throw some seeds, add some dirt and water, and FOOD.
Not quite that easy, perhaps, but makes more sense than learning to code.
In other words, a little sweat equity yields results. Grow green beans and tomatoes.
“Now? Can’t I at least wait until the last frost day?”
North of gay frisco, the knowledgeable home gardeners and good gardeners never plant tomatoes or anything that can be hurt or killed before 15 May due to late killer frosts/freezes.
We place an order with the Tomato Lady and when she delivers before 15 May, they stay in a protected area until 15 May.
Strict water rationing will limit the water drinking plants.
Thanks for the information, and reminder.
Good stuff, thanks.
I’m just the opposite. I’ve tried to grow zucchini for six years, and the bugs get them every time.
This is the last year I’m going to say “next year” about squash.
I got tired of those rats eating my fruit crop, so I started trapping them. I drove the first couple of them 10 miles up into the hills. Then I realized what it was costing me to relocate them in a nice, friendly, environmentally sustainable manner. After that, I gave them a swim in my large utility tub. Got rid of 77 of them that way! As a bonus, it really quieted the neighborhood down.
Every American should plant a “Victory Garden” because food may well be in short supply soon. Time to get to know your neighbors too because its just them that you can depend upon. These are new times and we must survive the next three years, if not more—Rationing may well be coming.
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