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Gutfeld tackles eating bugs.
I followed a double semi for quite a while today. Those Roma’s looked pretty sickly.Just saw that tomatoes and all tomato based products will be hard to find.
Blaming it on drought.
Meanwhile from my perspective I haven't seen the top of my table in a week. My decorating accents right now in my home are canning jars everywhere! Got two pressure cookers, a roaster and a dehydrator running full time for a week. Tomato sauce, canned tomatoes, salsa, rotel, tomatoes and okra, spaghetti sauce and dehydrated tomato powder. On top of harvests of peppers, beans, squash, figs and blackberries.Just saw that tomatoes and all tomato based products will be hard to find.
Blaming it on drought.
I swear one of these days girl I am going to pay you a visit and bring you a whole bunch of seeds. You need a DD interventionI wish I had tomatoes like this. The only prolific ones I have are the small yellow. Freezing them until I have a canner full.
Raised beds??I have a walnut poisoning problem. Cut the trees, but the poison is still here
Yeah nightshade family (tomatoes) are particularly sensitive to jugalone toxicity. I have hickory which also produce smaller amounts of jugalone. I grow hosta under them.I have the tomatoes in containers mostly. What I do plant, I dig a big hole and fill it with soil and compost. Use the ground as a bowl.
All you can do is what you can do. Don't beat yourself up atleast you are trying and doing something even if it is just buying it. There were times in my life raising five kids, working multiple jobs, helping run our family business and going to school myself that I fell in bed at night comatose myself. To everything there is a season.@DirtDiva "Thankful that I can still garden and have the skills to produce and preserve my own food and the fortitude to store it up. Lord help those that can't or don't."
I worry about not being able to preserve enough food ahead. I have to work and put in no less than 10 hours, usually 12 Monday through Friday. I guess I could do some canning in evenings after work but I'm honestly too brain dead. I go to garden after I quit working, check the chickens, gather eggs, make sure they have food, water fruit trees, etc...then I'm done. Once in a while I get a second wind after work to make dinner. Normally when I'm tired of eating the crap that larry makes for dinner which is about all hes able to do. A lot of times I'm in bed without eating dinner by 8:30 or 9 pm. (Unless I can't sleep due to so much on my mind). Weekends are grocery, errands, laundry, cleaning, squeezing in what canning, vacuum sealing, etc. I can get done in a day or day n half in between other priorities. Unfortunately, I end up buying more to stock than I can physically farm, harvest and preserve myself. Sometimes I work on weekends at my job if I'm covered up.
Not enough hours or energy in the days. Sometimes we have to find alternate ways of supplementing. We do what we can but lordy I wish I had time, didn't have to work, I could take care of a big garden and do all the stuff I read others are doing...I love reading all the things you others accomplish here! Some if it makes my head spin with the knowledge and abilities you have to implement and get things done.
My hope to meet my goals are that at least CONSISTENCY will prevail with the small additions I can add on my own and what I can buy to supplement in between...Until I cannot. That's all I got, for now..
Screen shot of IAF post.