Posted on 06/25/2013 3:02:39 PM PDT by Kartographer
Be careful of those grape vines. If you’re allergic, your hands will burn like the dickens. I’ve put up both mustand grape jelly and prickly pear jelly but they’ve pretty much burned out all the cactus around here.
The caterpillar/worms have made this one of their biblical invasions this year. They’ve stripped the trees and send armies through the garden and then crawl in mass up the house walls and into the house at every crack, eww. Not so eww that I’d be opposed to creating a recipe for them one day though.
I’m fattening up our tree rats on bird seed, the little thieves. They’re plentiful. There are a few dove the size of cornish hens.
Don’t know how true it was but there were stories about people dumpster diving within hours of Sandy.
/johnny
And it’ll take a few more years to get things going well enough to survive and even then Mother Nature will mess you over. I just came in from watering the garden. Not much left but tomatoes because the *latest* disaster has been the caterpillars. We get them very year but every few years they come in like a plague. Beans are faithful. I try every year but have never gotten a single zuck when everyone else has more than they can handle. Squash will not grow here because of the bugs.
We will not have a week of normality before the Gibsmedats come boiling out of the urban kraals.
We will have only HOURS.
1965 - Los Angeles - the arrest of a young black man in Watts incites a crowd, which spawns a riot, within one hour of the arrest;
1968 - across America - the death of Martin Luther King touches off rioting in several cities within hours of the media broadcast;
1977 - New York - the grid goes offline at 9:30PM, the looting starts around 11PM;
1992 - Miami - Hurricane Andrew's winds haven't even died down before the malls are ransacked;
1992 - Los Angeles - the verdict is announced for the Rodney King Trial, and almost immediately, the city burns;
2005 - New Orleans - the looting started even before the storm made landfall;
2011 - London - a protest over a slain gangbanger turns violent and within four hours, Greater London descends into mayhem;
2012 - Long Island, NY - in the wake of Frankenstorm, enterprising looters dressed as powerline repairmen sneak past the martial law cordon and pillage, with 24 hours of the storm;
Hours, folks - not days, hours.
Plant Egypt Walking Onions and they make onions forever. You will not starve with these onions and Sunflower Tubers (potatoes).
I’ve spoken with people who were facing looters before the wind stopped blowing after the hurricanes in central florida.
Hours indeed
There was a show where they sent people up to Alaska for 3 months. Different groups but they generally had a cabin or tent but had to forage for all their water, wood, and meat.
They had rice and beans but within a month they were salvaging a bear kill for usable meat. They were so hungry for protein they would do anything.
“They had rice and beans but within a month they were salvaging a bear kill for usable meat. They were so hungry for protein they would do anything.”
They might want the meat protein but they still wouldn’t die since they had the rice and beans.
Wow! Sounds good!
Can you get these at a “regular” nursery or must you start with seeds?
Jerusalem Artichokes and Egypt Walking Onions—sounds like the middle East salad/war in the making!
They might not starve to death but there’s a lot of things which can kill a person. The mental aspects of survival are critical.
I was only talking food. Mental is a different ball game.
During the ridiculous and illegal ‘Shelter in Place’ incident in Boston the ‘lockdown’ didn’t even last a day yet there were people asking the police to get diapers and milk for babies!
I was serious...can you get these at a regular nursery?
Can they be planted now?
Thanks.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I'll send you a private Freepmail with a link to articles I wrote about the Jerusalem Artichokes Sunflower (that Sunflower is actually called a vegetable) potatoes” and the Egypt Walking Onions. I won't take up this thread by posting those articles about these veggies here.
Thanks for this...this is just WOW!!!
The have-nots will be knocking at the door one of these days...
Pass the ammo.....
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