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May 14th, 2009 at 9:12 am
I’m trying to grow mine upside-down this year. Also, this way I’ll be able to keep them high enough to keep them away from the deer
May 14th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Thanks, anyway, but I’m still living in America. I want my backyard to look pretty and so far I have not had any trouble finding food.
May 14th, 2009 at 11:28 am
nk,
“so far I have not had any trouble finding food”
The keyword here is so far, what will you do when your circumstances change?
How Far is the US From Food Shortages and Food Riots?
Even the United States is not immune from the potential for food shortages, food riots and food insecurity. We’re just blind to the possibility.
Food Shortages Loom For America
We in America are spoiled. We have so many choices at the grocery store that it is beyond the imagination that food won’t be there. Although there are many right here in the United States who go to bed hungry on a regular basis, the true food shortages which have sparked riots in other countries have thus far escaped the USA. It is foolish to think we are immune forever.
May 14th, 2009 at 11:39 am
NB. Seeds and plants are not taxed in Tennessee where SU and I live. Want to stop paying taxes on food? Grow your own.
May 14th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Been pondering the upside down tomato thing. Some folks swear by it.
Seeds and plants aren’t taxed? Did no know that. May have to check my receipt.
May 14th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
The issue I have is 1)nearby trees have grown far too much in 30 years such that I don’t have a sunny garden spot anymore, and 2) the damn deer, which I can’t hunt because they live too close to populated areas, (regardless of the fact that I have a backstop good enough for .50 BMG)
I’m hoping that a few plants that I hoist over 10 feet in the air will give me at least a few tomatoes.
I saw a display for the things at the store just 2 days ago ($10 a pop for what is essentially a 5-gal bucket, sans dirt and seeds but you do get the holes pre-drilled) and I used the mighty google-fu. I already have the landscaping cloth.
May 14th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I can’t grow peas. Rabbits and deer both love English peas. Everything else I usually have some success with. Though this year should be better. Our soil is so heavy that drainage was always a problem, I spent last year and this lightening it with sand. Now I have good drainage and the plants seem to do better. Had I not my garden would already be dead. It seems like it has rained here every day for a damn month.
May 14th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
straightarrow: Plant a sacrifice crop of something tasty away from your garden. I do this with lettuce seed tossed over the fence in our alleyway. Rabbits stop there for their munchies.
SU: Seed and plants for food production are exempt from sales tax under Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-6-329. It’s a way I have been getting people to see growing their own food in a different light and I have gotten some folks who normally wouldn’t set out a tomato plant or two to give it a shot with this argument.
May 15th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Metulj that is a good idea, but won’t work here. Open acreage with an abundance of wildlife, I would just attract more of it. With a huge woods for habitat I may just have to fence off the more delectable munchies next year. Mothballs will keep the deer away, but now I feel guilty so will plant corn that should mature now about the time forage starts its fall decline. Which means no one can hunt on my place. Don’t hunt over bait. I don’t hunt at all anymore, but I have no heartburn with those who do. I just won’t bait a field for them. Anyway, I enjoy watching the fawns playing in the spring.