Posted on 09/23/2020 6:39:57 PM PDT by blam
Dear Friends:
2020 has certainly been quite a year so far, and a defining one for the preparedness movement. No longer are our stockpiles of rice, beans, and hand sanitizer objects that make us strange. Our stashes of TP would make us the envy of the neighborhood if, of course, anybody knew we had it.
So many of the things and beliefs that made us figures of mockery in the past are now proving their value. We’re learning, with a mixture of relief and perhaps dismay, that we weren’t so crazy after all.
When the first lockdown began, we weren’t out there emptying the shelves in the frenzied throng (even though we’re the ones who got blamed for it.) We were watchful but for the most part, comfortable with our preparations. We understood before things went sideways that extended events can result in civil unrest, crime sprees, and chaos. We realized that we could be facing shortages.
And then time went on.
And on.
And on.
This has been a year in which so many things have occurred that proved preppers have things right that it’s positively exhausting. We’ve had a pandemic, civil unrest, food shortages, increases in crime, exorbitant unemployment, and we’re facing an economic collapse, or at the very least, an economic crisis.
And we’re tired.
Maybe everyone doesn’t feel this way. Maybe you’re perfectly fine and you live on your back 40 and have been completely untouched by any of the above-mentioned crises. Maybe your finances are just fine, you never got out much anyway, and you’ve still got 8 years’ worth of food socked away to supplement the things you grow. Maybe you’re reading this as you spin goat hair into yarn from which you’ll make this year’s mittens.
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(Excerpt) Read more at theorganicprepper.com ...
Human urine mixed with tabacco and left in a jug for a week will repel deer.
Fixed it for you.
That too...lol
I can’t even begin to imagine.....
And don’t want to.
Thanks!
Would the fertilizer advice apply to carrots, also?
Yes. All root crops like the phosphorus/potassium vibe. Flowering bulbs (Tulips, Daffodil, Crocus) and Garlic like it, too. :)
NPK = Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium. You will see formulas on bags of fertilizer listed that way.
My ‘secret weapon’ is a bag of 10-18-10 new lawn fertilizer when I can find it. Works well for above-ground vegetables such as tomatoes and peppers, eggplant and okra. I also use it on all of my fruit trees.
Thanks for the ping!
Awesome stuff!
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