Time to start thinking about this year’s garden!

Its time. You have had enough time off. Did you have enough food this winter from last year’s efforts?

Dinner last August- everything but the pepper and cheese is from my garden. Eat well. Eat free. Eat healthy. Nobody’s poopie fingers ever touches your food- ‘cept yours!

Are you looking forward to inventing new meals that come solely from your own toil? I am too. Copy PF Chang’s lettuce wrap with tougher yet tastier cabbage leaves wrapping your very own stir fry assemblage! Think outside the box, then plan accordingly when planting.

How bout this for lunch or dinner? Yep- everything in this bowl is the result of healthy soil, some toil, sun/food/native wild insects pollinating my garden plants. Teamwork!

Do you miss spending time up in your garden? I do/don’t. ‘Slotta work! But what you get outta that work is priceless (and not just food!).

I had so many fresh, juicy, never sprayed, never washed, never touched by humans, tasty tomatoes I had to force them upon friends- then strangers. If I could just have ONE right now- what I would give for just one bite!

I grew thousands of dollars worth of incredibly good food last year, and learned a ton from some of my successes/failures

1. Don’t plant too close together
2. Don’t use CHINESE CHEAP CHEAP stakes- they are as shitty as all the other cheap Chinese products- wilting at the second slamming of the sledge hammer.
3. Don’t plant plants that need chemical sprays
4. Do plant tons of veggies that store easily for long periods of time
5. Do collect grass clippings for mulching plants to regulate soil moisture
6. Don’t plant too many cucurbits (cucumbers/zucchini/squash) because of squash vine borer- an impossible insect that loves catnip as a moth. No catnip if you like those plants.
7. Do plant from seeds as much as possible- selection is greater. It’s cheaper. It’s amazingly satisfying.
8. Do feed with Harrell’s 18-6-12 when planting for biggest yields
9. Do not be afraid to use some chemicals like roundup/malathion/BT/rotenone, etc., but you just don’t want to if you don’t need to
10. Staking/supporting plants is a must
11. Do consider rigging some sort of drip irrigation for your plants.
12. Do try new plants being introduced yearly by our aggressive industry- stuff is always being introduced
13. Figure out how to turn your garden into an early spring to late late fall producer of food
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These rows looked far enough apart when I planted them but two months later I couldn’t walk between them- couldn’t really even see them. Notice the plant food sprinkled in the trench with the plants- makes a HUGE difference in output. Like having gasoline in your car’s gas tank.


Meanwhile- in the world of news, it turns out that our country SUCKS at living. Countries we despise live better/longer than we do.

“Shithole countries,” as tRUMP calls them, believe in pre-sickness care instead of post-disease treatment. Suicides, obesity, opiates, smoking, inactivity seems to take their toll on us.

​Buck the trend, get up off the couch, and garden for food! Could be the beginning of the rest of your long, long, long life!

This article caught my eye. Spain is first. Surely USA must be second- nope. Tenth? Nope. Twentieth? Nooooo. Thirtieth???? Nope


LINK TO ARTICLE:


​https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/bloomberg-index-ranks-spain-the-healthiest-country-australia-seventh-20190225-p50zyl.html