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Sounds good now all I need is 20 acres or so...lol
Sounds good now all I need is 20 acres or so...lol
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
I save 40sqft just because kale sucks!
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- Roughly one half of all American families had a victory garden during World War II.
- There were at least 20 million victory gardens covering more than 20 million acres of American soil by 1943.
- 40% of the nation’s produce was supplied by victory gardens by 1944.
- American families had grown approximately 8 million tons of food by the time the war ended in 1945.
What they considered a small garden back then is considered big today.
Streetpro09
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That's cause people now a days are scared of physical work like it's gonna kill them faster. Plus they'd rather have someone else do it for them.
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Yup! People have told me my garden is huge. It’s not even 20’x20’
Slowdrawl
PICK YOUR OWN
This makes me think of my Grandparents, memories I have of staying with them as often as I was allowed.
I'm fortunate to have had them show me that way of life during the 50s and 60s!
They were as close to the earth as one could be, spent many hours in the gardens with my grandma!
Their vegetable gardens were unrivaled, they bought very little from the stores.
All you had to do was go down to the storm cellar or their storage room and see they wanted for very little.
Pickles right out of the crock, salted pork slabs packed in wooden boxes and hot peppers strung everywhere!
I'm fortunate to have had them show me that way of life during the 50s and 60s!
They were as close to the earth as one could be, spent many hours in the gardens with my grandma!
Their vegetable gardens were unrivaled, they bought very little from the stores.
All you had to do was go down to the storm cellar or their storage room and see they wanted for very little.
Pickles right out of the crock, salted pork slabs packed in wooden boxes and hot peppers strung everywhere!
ttystikk
Nerd Gone Vertical
Hmmm this looks awfully familiar. My grandparents (born around 1900, give or take) had a garden very much like this one, only it went some 60 feet across the back of their property. Theirs had pretty much everything listed in the pic, plus cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, dill, garlic and other stuff I never noticed.There are other take offs on this out there...with more plantings surrounding the garden space proper. Like weed.
- Roughly one half of all American families had a victory garden during World War II.
- There were at least 20 million victory gardens covering more than 20 million acres of American soil by 1943.
- 40% of the nation’s produce was supplied by victory gardens by 1944.
- American families had grown approximately 8 million tons of food by the time the war ended in 1945.
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Now, he's the thing; by the time I knew my grandparents, they were already in their 70s and very well off in a comfortably inconspicuous middle class kind of way; they both had careers when that was relatively unusual and they had saved and invested wisely so they had plenty of cash, a good retirement, plenty of money for world travel, etc, etc.
And until they physically could not do it any longer, they kept gardening. They did it as a hedge against bad times which for them never came but also, I suspect, as their way of dealing with the Great Depression and not really having enough to eat.
The prospect of such instability is a lot more real and likely today for a myriad of reasons and so I applaud your interest and industry!
ttystikk
Nerd Gone Vertical
I aspire to canning dill pickles that are anywhere near as good as my grandfather's. His spicy garlic dills were a work of art you appreciated at the dinner table.
Fiddler's Green
Just a regular vato
How much planting space are you working with and do you have a solid neans of irrigation?
Thanks for the guide vato, I'm trying to learn as much as possible to supplement the grocery bill.
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No clue man...lol