Posted on 01/21/2023 8:00:22 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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I’m using up as much ‘old’ seed as I can this year. It’s probably NOT going to be my most beautiful garden, but it’ll get the job done!
Read the next article on Food Shortages for 2023...
8 Grocery Shortages You Can Expect to See in 2023
https://www.eatthis.com/grocery-shortages-2023/
Going to the grocery store nowadays is much like preparing for battle. As you cross the threshold armed with a shopping list, you are immediately met with ransacked displays, missing favorites, and prices like you’ve never seen before. Defeated, you may return home with only half the products you needed, having paid twice the cost.
This depressing grocery store narrative haunted us all throughout 2022—although we cycled through various shortages in a game of What Grocery Store Item Will Be Missing This Week? And the story for 2023 is shaping up to be more of the same. Most of the issues, which plagued the industry last year—catastrophic weather, the war in Ukraine, inflation—are still lingering, while a few new shortages are scheduled to make their debut this year.
Read on to discover which items could soon be in danger, and buckle up for another turbulent and unpredictable year at the grocery store.
Beef
Champagne
LETTUCE
Canned Drinks/CANNED FOOD
Sunflower & Palm Oils
Bread and other WHEAT Products
CORN
Oranges & Orange Juice
(EMPHASIS, mine.)
I have tried it. Not one seed sprouted. I suspect the shells needed a drainage hole, but I couldn’t poke one without shattering the whole thing.
Thanks for your weekly commitment to Gardening...I love it. Hopefully this year will be able to grow more (major house remodel bout done...now to garden...yay.) I have found loads of old seeds which I will “test”...plus ordering new.
There’s already a shortage of sunflower oil, at least here.
I’m banning myself from gardening this year, because I NEED to get my house built, and knowing me, any gardening I do will become my entire focus instead. But, I was planning to cover my field in chia to smother out the weeds. Now I’m wondering if I should sneak a stripe of spring wheat into the middle of that.
I think I'm good here. This plant is about 25 minutes from me but I can get it at my local grocer 5 minutes out. It's cheaper at the grocer also; volume ???
Crush eggshells into your compost pile. You can use the egg carton to plant seedlings. I would cut the egg pockets separately and have them embedded in potting soil as well as filled with potting soil. The carton by itself is hard to control moisture, too dry or too wet.
I crush eggshells and feed them back to the chickens. Cartons get reused to store eggs in.
I would grow wheat! I should grow wheat. Why don’t I grow wheat? ;)
Thanks, Pete!
Got something that looked like dirt on my rug near my new born seedlings. Scrubbed and scrubbed. Then moved the gro light a bit. Voila...spot gone...it was like a miracle. lol
(No...Not my yard!! I might get 2 sheaves total yield! :)
https://scythesupply.com/
https://www.thewondermill.com/
The "Mosquito Bits" help control fungus gnats that hatch, eat the roots, and fly around and carry fungus from plant to plant. (Good air circulation might be enough to prevent this!) As Diana posted earlier in the spring, get your lights down close to the plants, 4-6 inches, to keep them squat and prevent them from being spindly and devloping "Reach". Heat and light above, but cool/no bottom heat under the tray help prevent this. Good Luck!
https://www.planetnatural.com/product/mycostop/ (Someone may have suggested a spray up thread!) https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/propagation/seeds/fungus-control-in-seed-trays.htm
Good evening from Virginia! Because of this extreme winter weather (yes, it can get very cold here) most of my gardening has been indoors. Planted daffy bulbs about a week ago. Shoots are coming up already. Sowed lettuce seeds and chives. Outside, the plants are covered with leaves. Just discovered some of the outdoor daffy bulbs are sending up shoots! As I have been indoors so much, have been looking at seed catalogs. I can see in my imagination just how the planters will look when the flowers start flowering. Enough of winter already
egg shells or egg cartons?
I have egg shell halves and cartons to hold them in. I was thinking to use a good potting soil or peat in the eggshell.
That’s really pretty! Almost looks like a quilt. Would be great color combos for one of my crocheted afghans. Inspiration, everywhere! :)
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