I have been busy the last few weeks getting ready for the spring planting. From the looks of things it will be a few more weeks before the ground can be worked. How are things going where you live?
I have tomatos and peppers (from seeds) that are seven inches high, onions out of the ground about three inches and corn in the next field is already a good six inches high too. We've had a very wet spring so far. Overall doing good.
I'm not planting a big full garden until necessary. I have food stored that can get me through harvest when that decision is made.
Brother-in-law says if it stays cold in S. Oklahoma much longer this spring ...he’s moving!
‘Bout the coldest spring we’ve had in memory in the Arkansas River Valley.
use it up wear it out make it do or do without
I grew up with that mantra- served my parents well. Big garden, alot of canning, alot of really nice home-sewn clothing, out of chicken feed sacks to a large degree...
We plant every year for the last ten or so years. Tomatos, peppers, onions, strawberries. This year we added corn, watermelon and cantaloupe. Plan to grow a bunch, eat what we can and sell the rest. Have a neighborhood coop going where we trade fish, wild pig, venison, vegetables, yard work, carpentry, plumbing whatever. We live on a dead end street and every other house is well armed with lots of ammo and lots of know how. We may have been hit in the wallet hard, but we are not going down, period. During the last hurricane, my kids learned how to wash dishes and clothes the old way. No machines. Making them tend to the crops so they will appreciate what it takes to be self reliant. Taught them to cook by ten years old. Both kids can handle a shotgun well. I am not a survivalist, but I believe in self reliance. If you know how to take care of your self, then you can care for others. If you are a welfare slug, you can’t even take care of yourself. What a waste of a human life. God gave us all talents and it is our job to find out what those talents are and put them to good use to serve our neighbors, not to be a burden on others. Help your friends, pray a lot and believe in your own abilities. No one else will help you and this obambi govt is going to try to crush the self reliant.
Quiet Defiance. Do what you can. Pray to whoever you pray to. God Bless America. Not Amerika.