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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:45:38 -0500
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On 11/29/2024 2:20 PM, Carol wrote:
> Michael Trew wrote:
> 
>> On 11/26/2024 5:37 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On 2024-11-26, Carol <cshenk@virginia-beach.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yup.  I'm still working on it but only trees really work for me,
>>>> though I get other things in smaller amounts.  Lettuce and green
>>>> onions equal to our needs.  Most years lots of bell peppers.
>>>>
>>>> Current project, source some plant warmers and better seedling
>>>> pots yhat I can use year after year.
>>>
>>> The United States imports about 15% of its food supply or
>>> $204 billion worth.  People fucking around in their backyards
>>> are never going to make up for that.
>>
>> Why not?  People sure used to.  100 years ago, poor people didn't
>> have a food-stamps card.  Grow it yourself, or starve.
> 
> Yup.
> 
No, not "yup".  Not everyone lived in a place where they could plant 
gardens.

> Anyways, I join here to talk food related items, not trade insults.
> I'll end the thread with Cindy because no one wants to see that, me
> least of all.
> 
> On gardening, I'm actually surprised you didn't put in a few tomato
> plants anf really easy stuff to offset some prices.  If it's hard to
> find seeds. I can mail you some or send them? Let me know in email ok?
> 
> If interested, alt.gardens.edible is a decent resource from small
> setups in a few containers with just a few things to bigger setups like
> Songbird's.
> 
> A few containers (top of a 1gallon milk jug cut off works fine for a
> green onion patch, herbs, and such.  Just little stuff at the start, no
> digging up 20sqft of yard or anything.  I don't do that at all.  Just
> some containers gathered over the decades on raised planters.
> 
Then again, not everyone is interested in gardening.  I'm sure not. 
Michael now has a family of 6 (including himself) to support.  You're 
assuming he will have the time to plant a garden.

Jill