Truffles did you poop in my pea patch?
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I realize the headline below is from March, as that is when I am posting this. I realize that is it May but in most areas of the country, people have not begun gardening yet or have more than enough time to start a garden into July.
This is about smart gardening.
With the price of inflation, it does not now take that much to make the small additions pay off. Small additions are things to make your life more pleasant without the great toil of a "big garden". The reason people have big gardens is because some crops like corn and potatoes takes some space to grow. We put in I think about 30 sets of potatoes last year and got about 10 gallons of potatoes. That is not going to feed people for an entire winter, but with hopefully your prepping with flour and other things, it would add an addition to your food supply without much effort.
This is more about your salad additions which will indeed save a great deal of money as those things are now expensive, nothing is chicken feed anymore.
I prefer red leaf lettuce. I prefer to have prestarted broccoli and cauliflower. I like tomatoes both salad and beefsteak, just understand that we put in Sweet 100's and got nothing really for the pick. We had volunteer Sweet 100's from the year before and they produced bags of tomatoes.Some things grow. Some things do not grow. I prefer cucumbers, and that includes Armenian melons.
If you turn the broc and cauliflower into ham cheese soup, you are going to get more of that than you will want to eat. I am still gagging at the thought of the 6 plants we had last year. That is allot of food for a little investment.
I also prefer pole beans, which I grow on cattle panels. You get a better quality bean than row beans, and you get a substantial harvest, that you can blanch and freeze in plastic bags.
All of the above are what the pioneers grew as that is all they had to eat, so they had to have reliable crops and the above will produce a quantity of food.
I also prefer squash, even if I am not the fondest of it. I like it grilled, so it is smoked, then made into a soup with ham. That is very pleasant to eat as it does not taste like squash.
You can grow onion, but 100 sets will make allot of onions, but you need to water the blessing out of them. They need to be in the ground early and to be watered deeply.
All of these crops require watering. You water and you get vigorous plants. You are better off with in ground plantings than pots. The ideas look good but they rarely produce a bounty.
This is more a lifeline garden to uplift your mood and not about canning 100 jars of tomatoes which you will never eat.
You should grow the things you like, but again, some things take more knowledge than you have. It will take some work, rather than being glued to your screens in order to produce something. Weigh the balance, if you like melons, then grow some as at 5 bucks a piece they are cost effective, but if you are only going to eat two and throw the rest away, then maybe that 10 bucks should buy your melons and you should grow something else which is more cost effective in food value.
I can tell you that prices are not going to come down this year. I can tell you that the interest rates are going to go up this year. I can tell you again, that the idea in all of this is to not be an off grid hermit where you are miserable every day. The idea is like our cellar wood stove, to SUPPLEMENT what we have to we save several hundred dollars, so we can enjoy some comforts elsewhere.
No one is telling you this stuff in the preppers because I doubt any of them do anything they say. They are making enough cash off of their platforms, so there is no worry about the way things are going. I live this stuff and do this shit to the best of my God blessed abilities in Jesus growing things and figuring ways through things.
If the worst comes, does it not make a point to enjoy your comforts like electricity, running water and food you like, rather than suffer all this time, and then be really depressed when you were eating pasty oatmeal for years and you have to eat that same shit when nothing else is around?
You want to grow things that are like weeds, which produce the most amount for the number of plants you have invested your money and time in. That is the pioneer version above.
Nuff Said
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