Simple solution; M18 Claymore Mines strategically placed around the garden perimeter. ;)
Posted on 03/22/2022 2:27:39 PM PDT by orsonwb
Unless you haven’t eaten in the past several months, or you already grow all of your own produce, you’ve probably noticed that the price of food, and everything else, has been rising dramatically...
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Simple solution; M18 Claymore Mines strategically placed around the garden perimeter. ;)
Dang.
Before I looked at who wrote that post, I thought Archy was back. ;-)
I go with the skill set that I have when I need a solution to a problem, LOL! :)
Yeah, easily forgotten since the tubers are underground.
But if you can pick a sunshine spot, and incorporate some of those acid needles into the soil and compost.
Incorporate shredded leaves of oak and other acidic leaves in a friable/ loose soil for a bumper potato crop.
You will learn and personally grow more from your failures, than you will from your successes. !
Mother Government is ADMITTING, in this published document, that inflation is REAL. Things are WORSE than when Barky 0bama was in office. Of course, that’s by design. Below compares 2008 to today. We are off and running, so hold on to your butts!
https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm
And, looky here! Inflation is even HIGHER on the East and West Coasts! Now WHO, I ask, is in CHARGE of those states? *SMIRK*
https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-region.htm
To make sure I appease the potatoe gods, what size shrine should I setup to the glorious and noble potatoe? I’ve always heard that is what the Irish do...
Here’s what’s, ‘in the pipeline.’ Food and products that are already on the way and/or being produced soon for our future purchasing. 15% increase!
Shrines are not necessary, just good, friable soil in sunlight.
Check out a local seed store, or better yet a neighboring farmer to determine which variety will do well in your climate.
Depending on your geographic location, you might even entertain growing sweet potatoes for vitamins and minerals in your diet.
Growing potatoes is so easy, if folks knew that, they'd grow them.
Also a good use of those potatoes in your pantry that have sprouted.
Kids in Maine picked potatoes; kids in the Connecticut River Valley around Windsor, picked tobacco, yada.
**When the public education system started in the 1800s, calendars varied depending on the needs of the community. In cities, schools were open practically year-round, up to 240 days a year. Rural schools, on the other hand, were open for only about five months over two sessions, in the winter and summer. Fall and spring, school was out so children could help harvest the crops and help with planting, said John Rury, a historian of American education at the University of Kansas. **
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Bkmk
I feel kind of bad relegating the delicious, useful potato as a descriptor for “what” is in the WH.I was thinking ‘skunk cabbage’ would be something I could live with, but darn ... I think Hilly has dibs on that one. For a non-vegetable sobriquet, Crypt Keeper seems to fit, physically & mentally.
I do mine in buckets with the bottoms cut out.
I lay the potatoes on the ground and cover them with wood chips.
I got a great crop. The ones I had planted in the ground, about half of them were half eaten by snails.
I’ve heard buckets work well too.
I’m not going to do this. I figure I’ll always be able to get potatoes from potato growers who’ll need somebody to do their differential equations for them. :-þ
Thank you. Over-fertilizing may indeed have been my problem - such as using too much of my garden soil, which probably has too much of a compost component. I’ll have to give your suggestion a try this year.
My dad used to use it in pots for cuttings of azaleas & rhododendron -
mixed with peat moss - back when he propagated them.
What else is it useful for?
I think it makes the garden soil a little looser, and it helps the soil retain moisture. Not too much like super wet, but just a bit.
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