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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

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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TOPICS: Gardening
KEYWORDS: carrotslovetomatoes; food; garden; gardening; inflation; oodaloop; prepper; preppers; rickbickling; shortages; shtf; squareftgardening; thehowdogardener; victorygarden
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To: shadowlands1960

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.


41 posted on 03/08/2022 9:16:34 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: Bobalu

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.


42 posted on 03/08/2022 9:17:40 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Same.


43 posted on 03/08/2022 9:18:00 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: SaxxonWoods

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.


44 posted on 03/08/2022 9:19:16 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: baclava

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.


45 posted on 03/08/2022 9:20:02 AM PST by JoJo354 (JUST SAY NO to covid vaxx!)
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To: orsonwb
Don't forget the meat to go with those veggies


46 posted on 03/08/2022 9:21:05 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Yo-Yo

I think they mean seedlings.


47 posted on 03/08/2022 9:21:08 AM PST by madison10
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To: woodbutcher1963

They have allotments in the UK as well. Had one behind our house. Our cat loved to hunt there.


49 posted on 03/08/2022 9:24:22 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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To: shadowlands1960

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.


50 posted on 03/08/2022 9:25:50 AM PST by Cold Heart (Has Any Bio-Weapons Lab Shutdown?)
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To: kelly4c

One DOES NOT need a green thumb to put in a row bean seeds in some dirt + water. The payout is huge!


51 posted on 03/08/2022 9:26:00 AM PST by bantam
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To: orsonwb

Just watching last night’s Tucker Carlson and he said;

Urea - ingredient in fertilizer

$265/ton last year
$846/ this year


52 posted on 03/08/2022 9:31:07 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Victor

“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?


53 posted on 03/08/2022 9:34:10 AM PST by caver
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To: Bobalu

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.


54 posted on 03/08/2022 9:34:19 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: Yo-Yo

“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.


55 posted on 03/08/2022 9:35:18 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Encourage and fund our liberals & Antifa to move to Canada. Conservative Canadians can move here!)
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To: Pollard

Thanks for the information, and reminder.


56 posted on 03/08/2022 9:35:26 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: Pollard

Good stuff, thanks.


57 posted on 03/08/2022 9:35:40 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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To: baclava

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.


58 posted on 03/08/2022 9:39:16 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: orsonwb

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.


59 posted on 03/08/2022 9:51:06 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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To: orsonwb

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.


60 posted on 03/08/2022 9:51:24 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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