My father was in high school during the Great Depression, but was raised on a farm, so his large family managed to get by. I'm fairly well stocked up on extra storable food. I can only do so much on an extremely meager fixed income and no savings. But if the bottom falls out on consumer goods, that may be a time to get a new laptop if one is needed. Why anyone would waste a single dollar on a TV is beyond me. An emergency radio maybe. Or a freezer. And I agree, November 8, a day that will live in infamy, for all the right reasons.
So, be frugal... I’ve already made so many cuts to the budget. These next ones are going to sting. My garden this year wasn’t very productive, but thank goodness I have my chickens. Bless those anons for yelling at us about food security. Many of us listened. Thanks for your insight, I appreciate it during these trying times.
Wife and I have also been considering starting up some chickens. Definitely a useful thing to have. If nothing else, a family can survive on eggs for quite some time.
Chickens are such easy animals to keep too, I wish you luck with them! (Build a strong coop!) We started our homestead about 12 years ago, thinking there was going to be a Zombie Apocalypse... it's turning out to be very useful now anyway, even though we are enjoying this show a lot more than we thought. :)
I hope you do get chickens, I highly recommend it! We have local farmers galore here, and my favorite thing to do is wait until late summer and then start hunting for all the "seconds" - especially their tomatoes - all the ones that weren't perfect enough to sell for the regular price, usually I can get them for around a dollar a pound, sometimes less - I go and buy forty pounds of them (!), then process and pressure-can them up to make a tomato "sauce" that can be used for soup, adding to gravies and sauces, gazpacho, etc. I have found this to be extremely economical and super useful too!
I wish I could have chickens, I cannot where I am and cannot afford to move. I built a raised bed garden and had a beautiful zucchini plant and some others but after a very heavy rain, it died. Doing what I can but it’s hard.
Zucchini usually loves water, so this surprises me! Perhaps the bed was in a low spot and didn't have enough drainage? Or maybe something ate it's roots? As a long-time vegetable and medicinal plants gardener, I encourage you to try again, because the more I learn the more I realize I do not know. Gardening can be very challenging!
Hrm, could be vine borer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_vine_borer) - look for eggs on the undersides of the leaves, or it could be something called powdery mildew, which is a kind of mold they can get. If you do try again in that bed, I would definitely dig out the top layer of soil and get a bunch of rich compost to put in before planting again - take a look around your town for a smaller farm stand or someplace that will have bagged organic compost (no chemicals). It seems counter-intuitive but if you use garden "fertilizer" or Miracle Gro, that stuff is terrible for your soil - Nature likes compost much better! And good luck to you!
Interesting, I have never used peat moss for growing before. I just Googled it and it seems to hold moisture very well (like in a bog) so it's possible that your Zucch. got overwatered.. Hard to tell.
My father was in high school during the Great Depression, but was raised on a farm, so his large family managed to get by. I'm fairly well stocked up on extra storable food. I can only do so much on an extremely meager fixed income and no savings. But if the bottom falls out on consumer goods, that may be a time to get a new laptop if one is needed. Why anyone would waste a single dollar on a TV is beyond me. An emergency radio maybe. Or a freezer. And I agree, November 8, a day that will live in infamy, for all the right reasons.
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I love quality TV's ... thing is, everything on them is woke trash now, so you're right ... it has been a waste.
So, be frugal... I’ve already made so many cuts to the budget. These next ones are going to sting. My garden this year wasn’t very productive, but thank goodness I have my chickens. Bless those anons for yelling at us about food security. Many of us listened. Thanks for your insight, I appreciate it during these trying times.
Wife and I have also been considering starting up some chickens. Definitely a useful thing to have. If nothing else, a family can survive on eggs for quite some time.
Chickens are such easy animals to keep too, I wish you luck with them! (Build a strong coop!) We started our homestead about 12 years ago, thinking there was going to be a Zombie Apocalypse... it's turning out to be very useful now anyway, even though we are enjoying this show a lot more than we thought. :)
I hope you do get chickens, I highly recommend it! We have local farmers galore here, and my favorite thing to do is wait until late summer and then start hunting for all the "seconds" - especially their tomatoes - all the ones that weren't perfect enough to sell for the regular price, usually I can get them for around a dollar a pound, sometimes less - I go and buy forty pounds of them (!), then process and pressure-can them up to make a tomato "sauce" that can be used for soup, adding to gravies and sauces, gazpacho, etc. I have found this to be extremely economical and super useful too!
I wish I could have chickens, I cannot where I am and cannot afford to move. I built a raised bed garden and had a beautiful zucchini plant and some others but after a very heavy rain, it died. Doing what I can but it’s hard.
Zucchini usually loves water, so this surprises me! Perhaps the bed was in a low spot and didn't have enough drainage? Or maybe something ate it's roots? As a long-time vegetable and medicinal plants gardener, I encourage you to try again, because the more I learn the more I realize I do not know. Gardening can be very challenging!
No the bed is well drained, no pools of water. The stems simply flattened as if hollow. Then the leaves wilted and died.
Hrm, could be vine borer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_vine_borer) - look for eggs on the undersides of the leaves, or it could be something called powdery mildew, which is a kind of mold they can get. If you do try again in that bed, I would definitely dig out the top layer of soil and get a bunch of rich compost to put in before planting again - take a look around your town for a smaller farm stand or someplace that will have bagged organic compost (no chemicals). It seems counter-intuitive but if you use garden "fertilizer" or Miracle Gro, that stuff is terrible for your soil - Nature likes compost much better! And good luck to you!
Oh I bet it was mildew, white spots appeared the day after the rain. I had a real mold issue last year even on my grass!
Thank you
I did not use any miracle grow, just peat moss, manure, the stuff that holds moisture and garden soil
Interesting, I have never used peat moss for growing before. I just Googled it and it seems to hold moisture very well (like in a bog) so it's possible that your Zucch. got overwatered.. Hard to tell.
I wonder what is going on…heard a lot of that lately
I need to do that.
The FED being BURNED TO THE GROUND as it should be... for the first time in my life I have hope for that to come true!
I didn’t say this, why is my name on it?
It was ME that said it! Different Sarah :)
Way too many Sarah's around here!
Oh haha, I was confused 😂🤣
Thank You BB
THEREFORE?