Saturday, May 2, 2009
Garden progress
We planted the garden on April 20 and it has made remarkable progress--remarkable for this city dweller, at least. Pretty much everything has come up, the first tomatoes are showing, and I'm already wondering what we're going to do with all that parsley.
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Breath freshner!
Seriously, farming in mild climate in good weather where there isn't a huge danger of flood, too much sun, locusts, etc.... isn't all that hard.
When we lived rural, we used to have 3 gardens and always had a freezer full of string beans, pickles, carrots, potatos, and had fresh tomatos and so on during the season.
'Canning' (really bottling) was quite a season unto itself. And we were more than self sufficient - we could have fed probably an extra 4-6 people from those 3 plots (assuming you were adding protein from elsewhere).
We also had a separate corn plot that generated ridiculous amounts of fantastic corn, when the neighbours cows would stay out of the plot.
As an appartment dweller, I miss some aspects of rural life.
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