Posted on 03/16/2022 6:19:19 PM PDT by blam
“Yes, I could see difficulty in planting and harvesting should the conflict continue into spring and summer, but we’re not there yet and I don’t see the point in hyperventilating over hypotheticals.“
With fertilizer (especially nitrogen ) not available , that’s what will hurt
That will be a factor, but the article gave it only a passing mention and listed a whole bunch of other factors that nobody knows whether or not they will even come into play.
You have the right answer
This would probably be a good year to have a larger home garden, or start one if not done before. I remember 1943 the day I came home from kindergarten and found my father out in the yard with a man and a horse plowing up the big side yard on the east, the small front yard on the south, and the medium yard on the west. After the first 2 years he stopped using the west yard as potatoes were no longer in short supply. A year or two after that he stopped using the front yard for corn. But we kept the big yard in 40 or 50 kinds and varieties of plants until 1953 when we moved. We preserved for winter and produced about 1/4th our food. This was 2 miles from New York City. We called them “Victory Gardens”, perhaps these would be “Help Ukraine Gardens”. If we had a surplus my father would let me sell vegetables to the neighbors and keep the money. I worked every planting season in the garden on weekends.
All I can do now is to grow an onion in a flower pot indoors.:)
Find a good farmer’s market somewhere nearby.
That would work.
History has plenty of examples of the folly of planting only one kind of main crop.
It’s already in the works.
This would also be a good time to put a plug in for Diana’s weekly gardening thread.
There’s a wealth of knowledge among FReeper gardeners.
She posts a new one every Saturday.
More reason to RESIST the plan of Globalism.
Close our southern border. Make everything we need for OURSELVES FIRST HERE - sell the excess to others.
But, no one ever listens to me. ;)
Preach it, sister.
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