By Rosalind Creasy With Cathy Wilkinson Barash
How much food can you grow in 100 sq ft? Set aside a small amount of your yard for vegetable landscaping instead of growing so much grass.
I began to get lots of questions about growing food to help save money. Then, while working on my new book, Edible Landscaping, I had an aha! moment. As I was assembling statistics to show the wastefulness of the American obsession with turf, I wondered what the productivity of just a small part of American lawns would be if they were planted with edibles instead of grass.
I wanted to pull together some figures to share with everyone, but calls to seed companies and online searches didn’t turn up any data for home harvest amounts — only figures for commercial agriculture. From experience, I knew those commercial numbers were much too low compared with what home gardeners can get. For example, home gardeners don’t toss out misshapen cucumbers and sunburned tomatoes. They pick greens by the leaf rather than the head, and harvests aren’t limited to two or three times a season.
For years, I’ve known that my California garden produces a lot. By late summer, my kitchen table overflows with tomatoes, peppers and squash; in spring and fall, it’s broccoli, lettuces and beets. But I’d never thought to quantify it. So I decided to grow a trial garden and tally up the harvests to get a rough idea of what some popular vegetables can produce.
More at link:
https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/edible-landscaping-zmaz09djzraw/
Well, we’re finally getting out water table recharged. We are out of the dry weather pattern for sure. Got a storm tonight, one Thurs and a BIG one next weekend.
Some of my onions are up. I started some lavender and rosemary. We’ll see how long it takes them to come up. I know they’re tough to start.
so while I can’t wait to get out in the garden, the snow is at least providing opportunity to use the new snowshoes we bought.
Good morning! Buckle up, news is coming at as “fast and furious”. In a good way. I can’t remember Judy’s exact screen name.
I can’t find our tooth discussion but I remembered this. Calcium carbonate is considered to help strengthen tooth enamel. Not taken internally but used in water as a mouthwash, and it also is a very VERY fine abrasive that is used in tooth pastes sometimes or tooth powder. I haven’t used tooth paste in many years but make my own tooth powder, recipe posted on the Natural Health thread, has calcium carbonate as one of the ingredients.
I’ve noticed since using it, one tooth that had a small chunk out of it that was painful, after some time stopped being painful and sensitive. Maybe some enamel grew back? I don’t know, I refuse to go to dentists any more. :-D
Howdy!
Another week of icky February weather has come and gone here in Central Missouri.
My run of “somebody’s playing with a voodoo doll” luck has continued unabated. Last Wednesday another motorist failed to yield the right of way and made a left turn in front of me. I wasn’t able to stop in time to avoid a collision. Everyone was fine at the scene but it didn’t take long for the shenanigans to start. Before I got back home the rat bastards had called the cops and my insurance agent to accuse me of running the light AND claiming they were injured by the collision.
They are finding out the hard way that Augie didn’t fall off the turnip truck last night. After viewing my dash cam footage my insurance company immediately denied any/all liability. I got a polite “thank you for assisting in our investigation” email from the popo. Naturally I’m getting jacked off by the other motorist’s insurance company (Progressive - big surprise there). My insurance will cover a rental while the Red Menace is in the body shop for a face lift.
With any luck Progressive will do a quick about-face after reviewing dash cam footage and save me the trouble of lawyering up.
I can state with certainty that having and using a dash cam is some of the cheapest “insurance” that you can purchase for your vehicle. Without the dash cam footage I would be stuck in a “he said, she said” position and have no way to prove otherwise.