OT Might be problems with our food chain this summer or fall, so thinking about planting garden

I just grow basic baking potatos that I get from Kramers in McMinnville.

 

Beans, Squash and Potatoes are probably the best storing and producing foods you can plant ..parfticularly butternut squash...zucchini gives a lot of food....I recommend finding a local organic farmer and getting fresh produce delivered once a week for a monthly fee...we also keep 3 laying hens and get eggs all year round ...now we're getting 3 a day...winter sometimes we get 1 a day. Swiss chard and parlsey and chives will provide greens all year round as will Kale...for people who don't like Kale...you're eating it when it's too old and bitter....young and tender..Tuscan kale is really delicious. I have a quarter acre garden, berries, and dozens of fruit trees as well as chickens...we'll be fine...I recommend buying large sacks of rice before that gets scarce though. Then you just need a fishing license, pole and some power bait...I should say I grow more broccoli than any other vegetable but we blanch it and freeze it for winter...broccoli will give you a ton of food if you harvest it in stages and don't take a large head all at once

 

I've tried several varieties over the year and of course it matters what kind of soil you have but down here, the red skinned taters work best for me and though I pull quite a few when they are small for stews/soup and such, if you leave some in the ground to grow larger, mine will get a little bigger than a baseball, which makes 'em good for baking or french fries, or whatever.

I grew some monster okra plants last year...2 or 3 got nearly 8 feet tall and the bottom of the stalk was as big around as my wrist...no shit...got a picture of it somewhere.

 

You should also look into aeroponic garden towers.

 

You can potentially reap more yield with aeroponic vertical gardens.

 

Does anyone know how to grow pizza and burritos?

Asking for a friend.

 

We have lemon trees, avocado trees and wild (I kid you not) tomatoes. I think we might just be able to go through this crisis on Guacamole.

 

Are you saying they’re going to run short on Kibble?

 

Do burried mighty dog cans count as growing your own food?

 

I made pizza for lunch today.

 

A garden needs a cat. Keep mice from your crops.

If you want short term plant annuals but if you are in it for long haul add perennials. I am looking at bumper crop of artichokes from a 3 year old plant. I have fruit trees, lemon, blood orange, fig, plum, cherry, Fuji and Granny Smith apples, peach, blueberry, also strawberries.

 

just spuds!

 

Put a few marigolds in your vegetable garden to repel harmful insects. Scatter some borage seeds among beans, tomatoes, peppers, squash. Their flower looks unimpressive but attracts loads of bees, who then pollinate all your vegetable fruits and pods.

Tomatoes, peppers and basil under grow lights.

 

Hey Riverman. I love you Green Thumb. Miss you brother. Good to see you, from a social distance.

 

Dig hole.
Put seed in hole.
Water.
Vegetable's fall off everywhere. Duh