When it goes right I make pesto and that shit is expensive. I hate store bought pesto. I lacto ferment my peppers and make hot sauce. Also the weed… when that works out that is great. But a victory garden is a tiny battery. Understanding plants and the cycles they go through keeps you grounded and at peace to some degree. The smell the color… If I wasn’t as fortunate I would supplement this with disc golf or hiking. Also growing herbs you take what you need instead of it rotting in the fridge because you forgot you bought some. Burning rosemary while smoking wood chips on the charcoal grill is bomb dot com. I never go out and eat ever… you gotta drag me out to eat at restaurants they all suck ass. You really do save money. I want a worm box. Make my own castings. This will not save you in the end… so until then.
At least you’ll know a bit about gardening things when the time comes to scale up
The fucking bugs are savage.
I’ve started gardening to help me cope with anxiety, I’ve also realized that we ain’t gardening out of a civilization collapse.
I’ve also realized that we ain’t gardening out of a civilization collapse.
There’s nothing like trying to grow your own edibles to demonstrate that there’s nothing DIY about food logistics.
I blame the slugs.
The fucking early stages of the humming bird moth.
yeah you need enough room to farm if you want to try subsistence farming. they don’t call it subsistence gardening.
Hey, and tons of herbs. Hungry? Eat some rosemary and oregano.
Learn to garden better?
I had a friend who grew on a mound of dirt in his back yard. I got free veggies all year round. He grew weed too 🙂
If all packaged food disappeared right now, I could gather from my garden:
6 small zucchinis, 20 pea pods (end of season, I got about 3 cups shelled peas from 10 plants this spring), 5 hard green tomatoes, a bunch of dill, like 30 green beans, a tiny bit of cilantro, like ten pounds of potatoes, 10 radishes, maybe 5 carrots, garlic, and onion. Check back in a month for tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, and cucumbers/melons
Gonna try to grow peanuts soon. Really want to find some low effort, high yield, high calorie crops similar to potato
Focus on synergy. You want the peanuts for their effects on the soil, more than delicious calorie dense protein bearing peanut butter.
