Fed up with the garden

[Oaktree]

Buy stuff on sale and stock up. My last purchase was 240 cans of veggies for $.20/ can. Chicken quarters at $.40/lb.

BTW, Don’t bother telling me about quality and taste….I do not not give a tiny rats ass about BS like that. Good enough is good enough.

Each to their own I guess. Personally, I prefer food that tastes good.

I don't do "veggies", but I have to ask where you got canned vegetables for 20¢/can? How many years past their "best used by" date were they?

Again, different strokes for different folks. By your handle I presume you're a hunter? That's something I don't see the appeal of. I suppose a good skill to have in a survival situation, hopefully I'll never be there.

 

[3gunr]

Hunting is much more than just killing something, I spend hundreds of ours each yr in a tree stand and love every minute of it even if i dont see a dear, Watching all the things in the woods wake up in the morning is great. Try it sometime and you will see what i mean.

 

[shooterdon]

Each to their own I guess. Personally, I prefer food that tastes good.

I don't do "veggies", but I have to ask where you got canned vegetables for 20¢/can? How many years past their "best used by" date were they?

Again, different strokes for different folks. By your handle I presume you're a hunter? That's something I don't see the appeal of. I suppose a good skill to have in a survival situation, hopefully I'll never be there.

I do a bit of hunting but was a competitive shooter. Along with being able to reload and make bullets it is a good skill for when the SHTF. Much better than growing stuff. If you cannot shoot, you will lose any stuff you have to guys like me.

As to the canned veggies, expiry dates were years in the future. Btw I have eaten canned stuff 7 years past the date on the can. No problems.

We have choices on how we waste time and resources. Gardening is silly IMO.

 

[Alan46]

I do a bit of hunting but was a competitive shooter. Along with being able to reload and make bullets it is a good skill for when the SHTF. Much better than growing stuff. If you cannot shoot, you will lose any stuff you have to guys like me.

Have you ever done any business with MBX Extreme?

 

[Oaktree]

I do a bit of hunting but was a competitive shooter. Along with being able to reload and make bullets it is a good skill for when the SHTF. Much better than growing stuff. If you cannot shoot, you will lose any stuff you have to guys like me.

Are you saying you're going to be out there pillaging and looting if there's a breakdown in law & order? Thanks for the heads up, glad you live a long ways away.

I don't buy into the whole doomsday prepper paranoia. In the unlikely event that all that goes down, I'm not sure I'd want to be here anyway.

 

[Alan46]

This is why we will garden as long as we’re able! First pick today!

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

I do a bit of hunting but was a competitive shooter. Along with being able to reload and make bullets it is a good skill for when the SHTF. Much better than growing stuff. If you cannot shoot, you will lose any stuff you have to guys like me.

As to the canned veggies, expiry dates were years in the future. Btw I have eaten canned stuff 7 years past the date on the can. No problems.

We have choices on how we waste time and resources. Gardening is silly IMO.

I agree that gardening is silly to a point, But for me it is enjoyable and it is a retirement hobby. Its enjoyable to see if my endeavers turn out good and learn from others when they don't. Always learning something new about plants and how to take care of them. Keeps the mind occupied and functioning better.

And one of the other reasons I have a garden is so I don't lose my water rights where I live. Don't use it, you can lose it.

I have a 60 by 80 foot fenced in orchard.
Pears are a bumper crop this year, but not normally.
Cheeries where a bumper crop, but not normally. Birds didn't get to them.
Quince, not a single one this year. Why? Don't really know yet but hopefully will gain some knowledge as to why.
Apples are doing well.
Apricots and peaches about average production.

Also have a 190' x 110' garden. Neighbors use this space also as we have the only water rights to the creek.
Corn, ancho peppers, jalepeños, zuchini, squash, cabbages, beans, peas, strawberries, raspberries, onions, garlic, potatoes, sunflowers all did good or are doing good.
Just blueberries, have never had much production so will be taking them out after 5 years.

 

[shooterdon]

Are you saying you're going to be out there pillaging and looting if there's a breakdown in law & order? Thanks for the heads up, glad you live a long ways away.

I don't buy into the whole doomsday prepper paranoia. In the unlikely event that all that goes down, I'm not sure I'd want to be here anyway.

I have 6-12 months of food on hand at all times. A lot of folks do not think that way.

If the SHTF, folks that are not prepared will take what they want/need from those who have stuff. It will not just be shelter, food, and water. When order breaks down, you will need to protect your tools, guns, a pretty wife or daughter...you get the picture.

Unprepared folks will be the initial threat if the SHTF. They will either starve or try to steal from others. And people like me will kill you. That is how things work.

You should read the book One Second After. Early in the book a couple of guys are caught stealing food. They are executed by the leader of the town. The young guys talk about their "rights" and are too stupid to realize they have no rights. It seems ludicrous that men would be killed for stealing food...but that will be the new reality.

 

[CalG]

This is why we will garden as long as we’re able! First pick today!

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We have been enjoying blue berries every day for a little over a week now. With just enough to put some in the freezer..... Looks like it's going to continue for a while. Raspberries too.

 

[beowulf]

An odd year for sure. Typically we plant tomatoes in early to mid April depending on the weather generally. Then we get abundant harvest of tomatoes beginning in June and continuing to the first week of December. We still have them in December but the taste seems gone after that first week in December.

This past rain-year (July 1- June 30) we had 66.4 inches of rain. The year before it was 18.2 inches - in line with a typical year. So because of late rains and cooler weather in the Spring we could not plant until mid May. So far, no harvestable tomatoes but they have started bearing fruit. We will get a decent harvest but nothing like a typical year.