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moon_glue
Orwell's Post9/11 Era



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Homegrow this spring
#7811664 - 12/29/07 08:28 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Spring is approaching, have you planned your summer garden yet? (for those of us in the northern hemisphere) By doing this, you will be adding biodiverse, rich, fresh, clean nutritional substances to your diet. You will also be a part of the movement to reduce food miles.
The transportation of produce contributes to a large part of our energy consumption and fossil fuel exhaust. The average american meals contains foods from at least 6 different countries. To increase shelf life and to keep foods fresh during shipping much of the produce is treated with radiation, waxes, fungicides, ect.
Garden work also has theraputic benefits - being outside and digging in the dirt will make you feel like a human again! Especially after being inside all winter. Watching your seedlings grow into a variety of fruit bearing plants will give you a pleasure and satisfaction. It also gives one a sense of pacients missing in today's instant gratification society.
So has the Moon_Glue enticed you into this wounderful and rewarding hobbie? Are you contemplating what foods you can provide for yourself and how much it costs to get started? Awesome! Now is the time to begin stocking up on your supplies
-containers (if you prefer container growing) -Soil - store bought or other -seeds - catalog or check your local home depot or lowes. they will begin carrying them closer to spring -planning - for light, locations, ect -plotting beds or space for pots
i'l leave the rest up to you
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DNKYD
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Re: Homegrow this spring [Re: moon_glue]
#7811677 - 12/29/07 08:35 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Although growing my own food has always been interesting to me, and seems like an extremely rewarding experience, I am too much of a picky eater to do it. I have the worst menu of anybody I know and, although I've tried a hundred times, I can't change it. I have such an adverse reaction to unfamiliar tastes and textures that trying new foods is almost entirely out of the question. I like most of my stuff bland and boring. I wish I was the kind of person who was able to eat anything and, in turn, able to grow almost anything for dinner. I don't see it happening anywhere in the foreseeable future. The only thing I could maybe get some use from would be growing some herbs for me and my birds.
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vinsue
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Re: Homegrow this spring [Re: moon_glue]
#7811693 - 12/29/07 08:46 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's a little early into winter for me to thing about my garden. Now when Feb. rolls around and I got snow up to my ass and the temp hovers around ZERO, I'll check out the variety of seed catalogs they've been sending, and dream of the coming Spring. I do know what and where I'm planting...just not sure how much...
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Prisoner#1
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Re: Homegrow this spring [Re: DNKYD]
#7811698 - 12/29/07 08:47 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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DNKYD said: I have such an adverse reaction to unfamiliar tastes and textures that trying new foods is almost entirely out of the question.
I had a sausage made by hungarians, it tasted like a turd, I couldnt get past the favor to be able to describe the texture. I've had grasshoppers and snails and grubs and even eaten horse and dog, most things I can stomach but I could never imagine having a limited diet. I've always been encouraged to try something new, I've often gone out of my way to do it.
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moon_glue
Orwell's Post9/11 Era



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Re: Homegrow this spring [Re: DNKYD]
#7811751 - 12/29/07 09:09 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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DNKYD said: Although growing my own food has always been interesting to me, and seems like an extremely rewarding experience, I am too much of a picky eater to do it. I have the worst menu of anybody I know and, although I've tried a hundred times, I can't change it. I have such an adverse reaction to unfamiliar tastes and textures that trying new foods is almost entirely out of the question. I like most of my stuff bland and boring. I wish I was the kind of person who was able to eat anything and, in turn, able to grow almost anything for dinner. I don't see it happening anywhere in the foreseeable future. The only thing I could maybe get some use from would be growing some herbs for me and my birds.
unless you eat steak wrapped in bacon for every meal, im not sure what youre talking about. a percentage of what you eat grows out of the ground, and a percentage of that can you can grow in your backyard. im not saying plant foods you don't like... unless you like to share them with neihbors.
what the hell do you eat?
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