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Time to grow
The recent salmonella alert regarding tomatoes should be enough to get people talking about how they can grow more food where they live. There are a number of possibilities; what do you think the next step needs to be?
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I think the next step is to sit down and do some serious thinking about our foods...as you and I discussed before on another thread. We seriously don't know what may be in our fruits and veggies...unless we grow them ourselves. We don't know how they were handled prior to getting to where they were going, we don't know what chemicals may have touched these foods...so the real question is: when is enough enough?
It IS time to lose the excuses and really think about growing whatever you can for yourselves, whether it be container gardening on a balcony or porch, or digging up a small area of that manicured yard!
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My upside-down tomatoes already in blossom. Looking forward to a good crop. Covering all bases, have also started some in bags.
Don't know what I'm talking about? Google: inverted planter and/or tomato in a bag
Yeah, time to stop killing birds and other little critters with all that junk you're putting on your lawns. If not all of it, dig it up. Potatoes make a good first crop. You'll love your own veggies. Consider also herbs, fruit trees, berries and grapes.
And it's all good therapy.
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Yep...I've seen the upside down tomatoe plants...I take it that yours are doing well, skeptikool? You should take some pics for us!
I agree...anything home grown...there's no better tasting things in the world!
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Growing your own is great but not everyone has the space. How can we work together to grown food in our communities; community gardens are one way.
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@ Bob Ewing
Growing your own is great but not everyone has the space. How can we work together to grown food in our communities; community gardens are one way.
This is true, Bob. The problem there lies in the fact that one would have to be willing to trust their neighbors, and be willing to work together as a team. In some places this won't be a problem, but in others...well...we don't know. -
@ Debra Myers (skyangel)
Yep...I've seen the upside down tomatoe plants...I take it that yours are doing well, skeptikool? You should take some pics for us!
I agree...anything home grown...there's no better tasting things in the world!
Pictures? Is that possible? Right here - on the Digital Journal threads? Maybe we'll give it a go. -
@ skeptikool
Pictures? Is that possible? Right here - on the Digital Journal threads? Maybe we'll give it a go.
Why not? You are an important citizen of DJ...! -
@ Debra Myers (skyangel)
This is true, Bob. The problem there lies in the fact that one would have to be willing to trust their neighbors, and be willing to work together as a team. In some places this won't be a problem, but in others...well...we don't know.
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@ Bob Ewing
true but it is time to find out.
Common grounds. That is what it will all come down to, I think. -
@ Debra Myers (skyangel)
Common grounds. That is what it will all come down to, I think.
that is what I think as well, we all benefit from working together to produce food. -
@ Bob Ewing
that is what I think as well, we all benefit from working together to produce food.
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Just trying this out. Fingers crossed. That's a cherry tomato on the left, A slicing cucumber center and an Early Girl tomato on the right. More info later - if image shows:
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thanks for the pic
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Well done, skeptikool! The pic turned out good! Thanks!
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Thanks for the thanks. I sweated blood to upload the image. One could believe that I had been trying to introduce porn.
The containers you see were two and four liter milk containers. Those are radish growing out the top of the one one the right. I have cilantro in one of the others. It hardly shows yet. It's slow to germinate.
One sees the persistence of nature in the tomato plant making two nineties to resume upward growth. They may hang when the weight of the fruit bears, but who cares?
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@ skeptikool
Thanks for the thanks. I sweated blood to upload the image. One could believe that I had been trying to introduce porn.
The containers you see were two and four liter milk containers. Those are radish growing out the top of the one one the right. I have cilantro in one of the others. It hardly shows yet. It's slow to germinate.
One sees the persistence of nature in the tomato plant making two nineties to resume upward growth. They may hang when the weight of the fruit bears, but who cares?
LOL! That's the thing, if they do hang down, that's okay...because the plants and veggies won't be touching soil where they could/would rot. I didn't even think about using milk jugs!
I wanted to do straw bale gardening this year, but we had to move right when it would've been time to be planting...and my son-in-law hasn't even gotten a spot tilled up in the yard. Too late now, for most things. :( Add a Comment
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