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.:)
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.