[ - ] veo [op] 1 point 3.0 yearsMay 21, 2021 19:39:00 ago (+1/-0)
It's definitely a process. We usually try one new thing/process a year. That way we can see if that particular thing was enough of a benefit to justify the expense/time.
You encouraged me to start companion growing, so we did that this year. I have nasturtiums mixed with my tomatoes, and when the others sprout, some alyssum and some carrots, I'll add those to the mix. I just wanted to have some ground cover and thought the alyssum would do the trick. I know ... I should have started earlier. I'll check with you periodically because I'd like the benefit of your experience.
Chilly weather totally helps; first part of last year while it was still cool our cabbage looked GORGEOUS! It was that pretty colorful kind, whatever that is. Then we ate some of it, and then the heat came and that killed it dead... and it stayed dead, darnit. Wish it had gone to seed. Oh well.
Just make sure you have a lot of guns and bullets and like-minded neighbors too. Otherwise when the shit hits the fan, the filthy rats from the city will take all of this from you.....
pretty far from the closest city. They'd have to spot my garden behind my house from a quarter mile off the main road. I think I'm ok. :) More concerned with the wild animals than the street animals. :D
We grow what we will eat. Some gets eaten fresh, most gets stored. We grow just about everything, including peppers and tomatoes. Cabbage is a good (and easy) early crop. it will be done here in about a month, and some late spring to late fall crops will take their place. We don't sell any of our vegetables. We store for ourselves or share with our friends and family.
Don't have much in the way of rabbits here. Too many coyotes. Mostly get coons and deer, which the fence does a decent enough job of deterring them.
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Something always ends up eating ours.
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Grow cabbage and cucumbers only if pickling for winter use.
Small rabbits can hop through that fence feet outstretched.
Once rabbits in, they will never leave.
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Don't have much in the way of rabbits here. Too many coyotes. Mostly get coons and deer, which the fence does a decent enough job of deterring them.