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Have I done my plant a garden rant here yet? and if you usually have a garden double the size this year.

Posted by Bacon (aka Redmond) Mar 20 '20, 17:03

We are not going to starve. There is plenty of food and there will be.

That said, there may be interruptions for periods of time on FRESH food. Now I am not going to put a cow or pig in my yard for meat. I am thinking about getting a couple chickens though.

I have also started my garden and will triple it from the biggest garden I ever had.

Think WW2 Victory Garden! If you do this, you will have fresh foods all summer long. If you wait for the problem to materialize it will be too late to plant one.

Think ahead, plant a garden.

So, I have 3 Zuchini, 1 Pumpkin (sugar for eating), 12 tomatoes, 6 peas, 1 watermellon, a yellow crookneck squash, every herb you can think of, chives, onions, 8 corn, 30 lettuces, red onions, green onions, raspberries, I bought a lime tree, 3 artichoke, 2 asparagus, 1 cucumber, 3 broccoli, 1 cantaloupe, and some tomatillos. I am sure I forgot a couple.

I plan on sharing my bounty with family, friends and neighbors in need.

Victory Garden!!

(yes I know some of you cannot have a garden) A couple tomato plants in the window. I did that one year and had a huge bounty of them.

Responses:

We're reconsidering our decision not to re-up for our CSA share we've done for the last couple years. -- nm - znufrii Mar 20, 17:17 1
- I had to look that up. (Community-supported agriculture) Yes, I say reconsider -- nm - Bacon Mar 20, 17:19
I'm already planning a Victory Garden, and I'm also volunteering to sew some face masks for local hospitals. - ReluctantCynic Mar 20, 17:16 7
- did you plant truffle infused oaks so you have a side business in 5 years? -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 20, 17:21 2
  - Oh! Hot damn! Excellent idea. - ReluctantCynic Mar 20, 17:24 1
    - you live in a near perfect climate for them -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 20, 17:29
- I saw that mask thing. Do you have to know how to use a sewing machine, or can you hand stitch? Also awesome on the garden -- nm - Bacon Mar 20, 17:17 3
  - You can hand stitch, and Providence Health System is even sending out pre-made kits for folks. However, it looks like they hit their goal ... - ReluctantCynic Mar 20, 17:23 2
    - Good for them!! Wouldn't it be nice if this could bring the country together? I can hope right -- nm - Bacon Mar 20, 17:24 1
      - I'm still holding out some hope for some sort of reckoning to take place. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 20, 17:25
Literally why we’re moving to the almost country. -- nm - mafic Mar 20, 17:14 2
- Nice!! Going to do the chicken thing too or just vegetables and fruits? Cow, pig? -- nm - Bacon Mar 20, 17:15 1
  - There’s an established orchard already. Like 30 trees? Almost every fruit that grows here, olives, and a few nuts, some berries. - mafic Mar 20, 17:29
I have 11 oranges on my blood orange tree. everything else is 2-3 years away from bearing fruit -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 20, 17:12 3
- Do you juice those or just eat em? -- nm - Bacon Mar 20, 17:13 2
  - blood orange screw drivers are *awesome* -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 20, 17:23
  - eat -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 20, 17:13
I ... cannot get up from my desk. Can I have a tomato? -- nm - loosilu Mar 20, 17:08 1
- I can't throw that far. AND RC don't be a mooch, you have been warned. Grow a garden -- nm - Bacon Mar 20, 17:10
I had a huge garden (4 official rows) but its bee abandoned, yikes, I'm going ot hve to turn the whole thing and use some weedstop fabric - zeitgeist Mar 20, 17:07 3
- bacon, if there are raccoons or yikes coyotes in the area, get a dog run with a top so you can secure them from getting eaten -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 20, 17:08 2
  - Oh for the chickens? Coyotes no issue, but thx for the tip on Raccoons. -- nm - Bacon Mar 20, 17:09 1
    - the rose had chickens when she lived in Tumwater, racoons got half of them, dog run protected them, coop goes inside - zeitgeist Mar 20, 17:25

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Have I done my plant a garden rant here yet? and if you usually have a garden double the size this year.

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