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I did force myself to learn knitting last year, made a scarf at least . 😆
I tried to keep up with that stuff, but it just made more depressed or angry, not being able to find time .
And that wasn't worth it.
Was handy when covid happened I was pretty stocked up.
Then Mom got old 😆 and that all went out the window. .
I think if you can make several batches of various items by doing the canning storage maybe get ahead by a year worth of food, then it might start getting a little downhill from there? because you make a batch, eat a batch, and keep that cycle going. Living off-grid must be the best feeling in the world? ok maybe second best feeling in the world.. :)
Of course the things that yield the best and are easiest to grow are usually the things that are dirt cheap to buy in season.
I don't think people understand how much time and effort and brains it takes.
Every September I buy 100 ears of corn , cut them and freeze them. Just ran out last years storage.
That is about all I can handle.
We just love are local farm corn. Even that feels overwhelming.
My gardening these days is confined to the balcony and my indoor plants which are adjusting well. I am growing oat seeds in an old roasting pan to give Rocky some greens. Despite tenting saran wrap over the pan to keep the moisture in, the seeds have not germinated as well as I would like. However I did get some green blades growing and put them down for her and she munched the lot and pulled up a few. But she likes it and goes out for a taste daily except yesterday which was too hot for her.
We also have an elm tree seedling growing in a decorated watering can, With temps here in the 90s I'm watering the oat grass and the elm seedling daily. It will need to get planted out at the lake this fall.
100 pounds of sweet potatoes from slips of one potato!
That's a lot of pressure.
Videos said to change water every two or three days.
I have already failed.
However, this should be fun, right?
These suckers are growing by themselves.
There are so many so-called slips, I could have a 5 ft. x 5 ft. garden.
Planting in the morning, or very soon into available square planters.
Thanks Cwillie, I will do that!
Then I put a piece of cut potato in a jar, some water, and it grew roots. Took them outside on the porch.
Two of the jars have leaves, one jar does have roots but it looks also like moldy, and the cloudy water smells.
Should I plant them in dirt now? And throw away the moldy sweet potato?
I feel obligated to continue this growing stuff, but will it end with new potatoes?
I could adopt them out.
I'm just whining because where I grew up all we had to do was till the ground and toss in the seeds or plants and we got very good yields, now I'm planting in areas where the topsoil has been stripped away and no amount of compost and peat moss seems to replenish that, it will take decades.
Or maybe passive composting in that area for a year?
Jjust some thoughts knowing exactly how you feel.
But hope springs eternal, I've planted some bush beans where the garlic was in hope of taking advantage of the big rainfall we are supposed to get from the remnants of Beryl.
I swear can birds be that smart?
I'm getting so many new varieties of birds this year. 😊