If your garden costs hundreds of dollars to set up, you're definitely doing it wrong lol
Gardening can be nearly free with the right know-how.
Admittedly my strawberry plant only made 2 strawberries so that part was nearly accurate lol
If your garden costs hundreds of dollars to set up, you're definitely doing it wrong lol
Gardening can be nearly free with the right know-how.
Admittedly my strawberry plant only made 2 strawberries so that part was nearly accurate lol
No no, even if you manage to grow nothing but dust in year one, a depressed tomato in year two, three measly leaves of parsley in year three - each bit you managed to grow yourself not only tastes better but also unlocks better veggies in the next year! This is a learning curve that is absolutely worth it, please don't give up.
But wasn't skipping avocado toast the secret sauce for owning a home with garden? Where do I even start cultivating squirrel food, if I have no home and garden?
how dare you personally attack me like this?
And it wasn't just strawberries.... I planted a raspberry bush too.
I planted a raspberry bush a few years ago on a strip of unused leftover nothing land in the neighborhood. Neighborhood kids loved the bush and ate the berries. Birds loved it and ate the berries. Some old hag hated it ("looks untidy!!!") and sneakily had the bush removed (it's not her land either) although she knew damn well who had planted it and that kids and birds loved it.
Strawberries are a bad example. Those guys want to live as long as your soil is good. I get around 5 bowls per year and growing so maybe like 50-100 strawbs and yes, half of them go to squirrels.
I think food gardening depends a lot on luck. With the right combination of plant+spot+local (micro)climate+how often you water your plants, you can almost accidentally end up with a huge amount of whatever you're growing.
And then you invest all the money you saved on food into one (1) trendy stock, cryptocoin etc. and make cents out of dollars.
Never had any luck growing carrots because our soil is such heavy clay. But I chucked a few potato skins near my budgies' graves when the compost bin was full and even after digging the plants up the first year, they just keep growing back and as long as I water them, they provide a decent harvest without any effort.
If I bought proper seed potatoes to grow, they probably wouldn't.
combination of plant+spot+local (micro)climate+how often you water your plants
^^ Those points aren't luck. ^^
Growing your own food is like printing money, BUT you need to know what you are doing.
It's absolutely luck if you don't know what you're doing, which is most people. Also, changing the local microclimate is possible to a degree, but depending on how much you need to change it, it's too expensive. Depending on where you live and what crops you're trying to grow, even water might be an issue that pushes it into "infeasible".
They also brought the "tossed salad" back into the mainstream. That's pretty cool
I don't shit on millennials for their income or spending habits. There's so much more ammo if you go after their humor. Rage face comics, Steve carrel, Zoolander. I've battled diseases funnier than what millennials laugh at.
Then the people I use these tactics on shouldn't start with their generation war bullshit in the first place. Come prepared or go home.
Ageism is fair game when it's in response to ageism. You questioned someone's gender out of nowhere in a thread about gta piracy. This isn't the gotcha you seem to think it is.
You're kind of unhinged, eh?
You're going through my post history desperately searching for things to criticize. I'm not upset but that's recognizably unhinged behavior, and I believe in calling a spade a spade.
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