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Thanks!
Maybe NYC should repurpose Central Park.
They’d need to remove the bodies, first.
Eating the preps banquet….
Martha Stewart, eat your heart out. Great photo M ! Color, composition and humor.
That looks beautiful.
Not too late to plant strawberries, in most places.
https://observernew.blogspot.com/2020/04/de-facto-rationing-starting-to-take.html#more
We used to have a garden when I was a kid. I remember doing the home canning thing in late summer and hearing the lids pop as the Ball mason jars sealed up. There were a lot of stewed tomatoes, green beans, and kraut to be had during the winter. Onions, radishes, and cucumbers were consumed fresh as were the potatoes and squash.
It was my job to keep the caterpillars at bay. In those days we use rotenone dust and diluted soap solutions in a spray because we didn’t have Neem oils. around then.
Dealing with the bugs never bothered me, but the day I turned over a leaf in our squash patch I almost crapped myself when a wolf spider the size of my hand came crawling out.
In many places now is the right time to plant most things. Check your last frost date and go from there. The good thing about now is that the sun isn’t scorching hot and we are still getting April showers so those sensitive young transplants don’t get too much shock.
Where I am, I quit putting out tomatoes until the 1st week of June. I used to use Mother’s Day but after getting caught by a few late frosts, sensitive warm weather items like tomatoes don’t go out until later.
I am waiting on strawberries to plant that should be here tomorrow and my blueberry bed is ready to go as well. I’m more fond of fruits so I’m getting away from vegetables altogether. I’ll trade for veggies or hold me nose and buy them from the Amish.
Don’t forget grafting fruit trees. You can get multiple varieties from most with some easy grafting.
You can put them out earlier if you use floating row covers. Check out Agribon:
Going heavy on four varieties of potatoes this year as well as dried beans.
Good for the heart
Thanks HSF. I have been growing many of these crops for at least 10 years. We built a root cellar years ago for storage. We seem to be on the same page as these guys, although we’re in the Pacific Northwest so some things are different. We are in scary times but personally my daily life is not too different. For now least!
Thanks for that video, Hardscrabble. I’m already subscribed to that video channel. Since I live in the Deep South and they do, too, I figured they were one of the best channels for me to watch.
Here’s another video channel I’m subscribed to. In this one, he’s giving advice on what you can grow in 30 days or less. Very helpful for people who are waiting for their main garden to grow out and may be running low on food. (Though it also helps if you have lots of canned meats and fish so you can add some to each meal. Make sure you stock up on them if you haven’t already.)
HS, very good video..many thanks.
Related: Chris Martinson, Peakprosperity.com: “How We’ll Get Through The Coronavirus Debacle” video. At the end of the video… First class description of haw to make a N-95 equivalent mask at home using “Zep” or “ToolBox” blue shop towels as the filtering agent. (The type of disposable “paper” towel those of us who play with oily stuff like engines usually have around the shop.)
My wife and I failed retirement and I became the local volunteer fire and rescue chief, and my wife, an RN and EMT, became the chief medical officer. Very hard to get PPE for very remote and very poor volunteer fire and medical folks. So, my wife is now making N-95 equivalent masks for the troops per Chris Martinson’s information.
Admin, many, many, thanks to you for the early posting of Chris Martinson’s videos…Excellent, detailed, referenced material which has proven to be very accurate in hindsight. (Part of the reason we set up an automatic monthly contribution!)
My carrots stay good year round in the crisper drawer in my refrigerator. I think cabbage is another good staple crop.