Member culdesacgrocerygarden
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My daughter went up to Amish country today to stock up, she routinely goes to Jamesport MO to do that. Not one store up there had canned goods. Every single Amish and Menonite store she went to was completely out of canned goods. Whose the crazy one now? Its gettin real.
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No way am I squandering my sardines by burying them in the dirt, lol I love them! They taste like the ocean. Yum. I would rather go scoop some pond water from the neighborhood “lake” on the DL and use that. Hahaha.
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🙋♀️On a quarter acre in a cul de sac in a neighborhood here, with an HOA in small sorta pretentious city. Luckily, being in a cul de sac translates into teeny tiny front yard and enormous weirdly shaped back yard. Ive been here since 2014 and have 6 raised beds, several troughs, whiskey barrels and planters. I have a rain barrel but honestly need about 10 more. This year I observed the sabbath year and didnt plant in the raised beds but did plant in pots and bought a green stalk. That thing is awesome. It grew tropical spinaches, a tiny jalepeno and my first ever pumpkin, a tiny little white one. (For the life of me I cant grow pumpkins.) I also planted grapes, blackberries and blueberries in pots, but a flash drought killed the bueberries. Already had a young cherry tree, strawberries and established raspberries. But fruit production isnt where it needs to be yet. A cardinal destroyed my beloved baby dwarf sweetheart apricot tree last year and I am still in mourning. She will soon be replaced, but its just not the same yet. She was just over a year old when she met her untimely demise.
I almost NEVER go to the grocery store and most years I grow lots of veggies and I am so ready to expand on that. Working on establishing perinneal veggie beds for asparagus and rhubarb. But I am learning that the traditional “boring” things like green beans, corn and tomatoes are the most popular garden plants here for a reason. Its because they grow so well here!
I have a few culinary herbs beds and have started a medicinal herb garden. Looking to expand that greatly this coming year as well. I hope to build 4-6 more raised beds and experiment with tomatoes and peppers in 5 gallon buckets. I am also going to be trying smart pots for the potatoes this year. A big goal is to grow BIGGER potatoes than we have gotten in the past.
James Prigioni really inspires me with how much he gets out of his suburban back yard. I think the key is raising vertically as much as possible. And having an ample supply of used bedding at your disposal. Its just so challenging trying to do it a way that looks good to the neighborhood. One of my goals is to make it prettier this year without compromising production.
We are not allowed to have “farm animals” of any kind, only pets. So Im looking at getting a rabbit and some quail. The rabbit solely for the poo. My daughter raises a large qty of chickens, geese and turkey on her urban homestead. I get beef from the Amish in North Central Missouri, and honestly as much as I love cows theres no way I could physically handle raising them. So I feel very blessed to have good farmers to purchase from. If ever I cant get it I am ok not eating it. I feel better physically when I dont eat it, and its an indulgence for me to have it.
My own opinion is that I dont HAVE to have meat and dairy. I did a Daniel fast last year, eating almost 100% from the garden and felt AMAZING when it was done. The more of my diet I can grow, the better.
My son cleared out the raised beds today and Im looking forward to planting garlic at the end of September. A few months later it will be time to start seeds, and Im so ready! Lord willing in 2023 I hope to have a bigger than ever garden and take food self suffiency from 90% home grown produce 6 months out the the year, to 100% of my produce all year. Its a lofty goal to be sure. I cant wait to get back into it. Its been a long year and I feel blessed to have had some rest but I miss my garden! I look longingly at my seeds every day.
One of these days I would like to be on a bigger property. I would love to have pond, a well, a lagoon, timber and more room for growing food. I want to be completely off grid, but in a way that works for me and my needs. Most likely solar. Lets face it. This 60 year old handicap lady is probably never going to chop down a tree. But hopefully the more we move towards our goals the stronger and healthier I will become. The goal is to find a property that suits the needs of my daughters large family, and also my needs as well, on a shared property but in autonomous homes. We are always looking, but this area is very overpriced and true small farm land is scarce. Its mostly sold off in parcels and marketed as “estates”.
If we never get to acheive our dream and I live the rest of my life in this cul de sac, its enough. Bloom where you are planted. The cul de sac garden will grow enough, and for that blessing I am grateful every single day.
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A lot of what we do is getting ready for winter. Growing extra food and preserving and putting up food in our pantries/storage. But yes, winter is on my mind. With the cooler nights here now I am thinking about frost and winter weather. Zone 6a near Kansas City. They had wood stoves on sale at Menards and Orscheln’s this weekend for labor day and I was tempted but just didnt want to do anything rash. Im just not sure about putting a wood stove in this house with its fake gas burning firepace and chimney made of siding. So I need to keep researching.
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Also, I would like to be able to go right back to where I was in the feed or in a thread after I click into a specific response or specific conversation. I really love that the feed seems to be a true newest added time based feed, and I hate algorythms like facebook has. But when I have spent a few minutes scrolling through the feed, I dont want to have to start over just because I clicked into a conversation to read the whole thread. Is it a difficult thing to write that into the code, for the back arrow to take you right back to where you were? I wouldn’t know. Im “just” a tester lol. Really good at reading code and pinpointing flaws but just now learning to write in my old age!
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I would like to see a “like” button under every comment in addition to the posts. Sometimes what someone else says strikes a chord with me but I dont necessarily feel the need to add a comment of my own.
Like someone else said a bartering/trading section would be awesome, as would be a “FREE” section. I do hope the marketplace will have a feature to filter by location.
One last thing, as this platform grows maybe a section for safety tips? The feeling of likemindedness here may lead to a sense of comraderie, which is great but I fear may also lead to sometimes letting ones guard down. I know I could use some frequent cautionary reminders!
Thank you all so much for your hard work creating this site. Being a software engineer (QA), I appreciate the many, many hours of building and testing this platform represents!
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I would like to hear about the beetle traps too. Last year when I had Japanese Beetles I refused to pay $20 for a beetle bag. Read that geraniums have the same effect. Low and behold I had just planted geraniums by my garden beds the day before. IT WORKED! Supposedly the beetles are attracted to them but are stunned by them. While they lay on the ground stunned, birds swoop in and eat them. For whatever reason, the Japanese Beetles were gone in just a few days and didnt come back. I hope to always have geraniums in the garden from now on.
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23 “members” and one response….likeminded grey folks? I hope I get to meet up with yall one day.
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I hadnt seen that video yet but I was just thinking the other day how every homesetead community or family needs a copy of the Bradley Method.
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My favorites so far are purple podded pole beans and chinese noodle beans. They usually grow on cattle panel trellises between two beds. I love them! Planning on trying some new varieties next year.
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Interested and sending you a private message
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@Wilburs-Place I do love that suggestion for Single Ladies of a certain age!
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Hey there!
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Awesome answer