Food. Kinda important. Air, water, food. Number 3. Yep way more important than PM’s. Of course I still love my PM’s.
I would rather potatoes than gold. If I keep 10% of my potatoes each year to replant, then I will have another full crop the following year. Same as beans, pumpkins, etc. I can only spend gold once.
Long gone are the people who value growing their own food over the instant gratification of a drive through.
Wrong @66rounds I value saving the seeds of my best tomatoes each year & getting a uniform copy of the best next year. I used to swear by GROSSE LISSE for years. This year however, I discovered OX HEART & saved the seeds for next year. Just this morning I was pulled up in our country Supermarket, by a woman I'd given about 20 tomatoes to & she asked me to give her some seeds for next year. P.s. I see we are on the GOLD/SILVER RATIO thread, so sorry all. Please do not CRUCIFY US for not being on the VEGIE GARDEN THREAD.
The prevalence of snacks and the local Diabetes Truck (Coca-Cola truck) replenishing the local shopping centre are both an all-too-common site to me. Never ceases to amaze me how much money is pissed away on these. Tough times my butt... forget growing...I have a niece who would rather buy a sub-200gram bag of Tyrell's rather than spend daddy's money on a 5KG bag of potatoes that she could enjoy for days (with a little preparation) and pay less for. Easy money = easy waste.
Don't be too harsh on her, guide her to the straight path with kindness. The right environment is required for the best sprouts!
"200gram bag of Tyrell's " CRIKEY, you had me there, WTF is Tyrell's, I said until I looked it up. Just *kick her in the @R$E & that should *kick some sense into her. *_JOHNLGALT. does not condone violence against women.
At least 300 in the brown paper bag ready for next year 66. You being a decent person, I'll figure a way to get some of them to you. I may have to drop them off with Michael, or, Joe @ our P.M.'s shop. CHEERS. _JLG.
Love my backyard patch...toms (beefsteak, rainbow, lolliepops and others, cues, zucs, corn, eggplant, leeks, carrots, herbs, greens, some berries and fruit tress. Maybe chooks one day. Now if I could just grow BBQ Shapes and Jatz (my favs), life would be perfect. Might even try my hand at blowing up the garage with home brew ale.
Ox heart just kept getting bigger & juicier. Cut a 1/2" SLAB & put it between 2 toasted pieces of toast & (oh, shut up. - DRIBBLES). You damn IDJIT. LOLOL.
And I’d say the mark up from the farm to a single serve cup of fries at the MCG (extra if you want a sachet of sauce??) is comparable to the coca leaves going from the fields in Columbia to up the nose of punters on Melbourne cup day
My wife and I always liked growing ‘lazy housewife’ climbing beans. They are a German heirloom crop. Very tasty. Green gold so to speak.
I now have mainly fruit trees with a sprinkling of herbs and a cherry tomato plant that sprung up from bird shit next to the fence. Oh, and the mandatory rhubarb plant that is ready to pick at the same time as my apples. Hmmmmmm....Apple crumble..yum yum. I am hoping the apocalypse will wait until May. At least I will have Washington Navels to ease my stress.
