Dollars from dirt: Economy spurs home garden boom (It's official: We're now peasants!!)

Salon / The Associated Press ^ | March 15, 2009 | Gillian Flaccus

[2ndDivisionVet]

With the recession in full swing, many Americans are returning to their roots -- literally -- cultivating vegetables in their backyards to squeeze every penny out of their food budget.

Industry surveys show double-digit growth in the number of home gardeners this year and mail-order companies report such a tremendous demand that some have run out of seeds for basic vegetables such as onions, tomatoes and peppers.

"People's home grocery budget got absolutely shredded and now we've seen just this dramatic increase in the demand for our vegetable seeds.

[Don W]

Degas genitally, and divide into two greased loaf pans.

I HOPE you mean de-gas gently

Otherwise, I want nothing to do with your perverted "bread" recipe.

WORDS MEAN THINGS!!

THINK BEFORE POSTING

[Arrowhead1952]

Here is another one to add to the garden ping lists.

[Designer]

"Degas genitally"

Remind me to never accept an invitation to eat at your house.

[Little Bill]

Technical term in the bread making biz. No - me bad.

[Little Bill]

I suggest you pass this on to Peter Reinhart at Johnson and Wales, teaches bread making. I am sure that in the future editions of his bread making books he will correct this error.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

My life won’t be changing much. I married into a ‘farm family’ 15 years ago...and I grew a lot of food and herbs and flowers and fruit prior to that.

But Husband impressed the heck outta me with his garden while we were dating; it was a deal-maker. ;)

I’ve worked ‘in the biz’ for the past decade. Seed sales have been through the roof, and I predict my sales of all veggie plants will be very strong this season.

“Cultivators with years of experience worry that home gardeners lured by promises of big savings will burn out when they see the amount of labor required to get dollars from their dirt.”

BUT...this is something I warn each and every customer about. It’s work. Plain and simple. Producing food is WORK.

Funny...I haven’t had ANY customers from the local low-income housing that’s within walking distance of my garden center. Not even a community garden in their neighborhood, where they’re plenty of green space to be dug up. Go figure.

Guess when you can get the milk for free, why buy the cow?

Your Tax Dollars at work. :)

[Doomonyou]

Cool! Something new to add to my CV!

[Syncro]

I decided to google Degas genitally

The first hit is your comment here at FR

LOL

[Designer]

"The first hit is your comment here at FR"

LOL!