Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

[Speaker to Animals]

Seriously though, looking good.

I emptied out the rain barrel this morning soaking the back 40 of le jardin de Fife. It's already hotter than two rats fucking in a wool sock down here.

It's Africa-hot out there. I just ran four miles and it was a slog there for a while where I ran through a farm field without shade.

[Kath]

Lots can be grown in that sand.

Based on what I've been studying, I don't have to have a raised bed, but prepping the sand seems like a lot of extra work for little gain. We don't have our compost pile started yet, so I have no nutrients to put in the sand, yet. Raised beds are the most recommended for doing home gardening.

[Speaker to Animals]

Lots can be grown in that sand.

Based on what I've been studying, I don't have to have a raised bed, but prepping the sand seems like a lot of extra work for little gain. We don't have our compost pile started yet, so I have no nutrients to put in the sand, yet. Raised beds are the most recommended for doing home gardening.

I grew all kinds of food in the sand as a kid. It's very possible. Actual Floridians were farming from day one since we bought the place and settled there.

The list of vegetable that grows well in Florida is almost endless. Spring gardens often contain tomatoes, summer squash, cucumbers, peppers, beans, peas, sweet potatoes, sweet corn, eggplant and okra. Early-bearing varieties of some vegetables are also suitable for planting after the harshness of summer has waned, providing a late fall crop. Cool-season vegetables in Florida include broccoli, cabbage, carrots, collards, kale, lettuce, mustard, onions, white potatoes, English peas, spinach and turnips.

Many small fruits, like strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, dewberries, loganberries, huckleberries and grapes grow in Florida, as well as fruits like cantaloupe, honeydew melon and watermelon. Tree fruits, like persimmon, avocado, many varieties of citrus, pears and peaches will grow throughout the state, depending on the location and variety. South Florida, with its more tropical climate, will support a wide variety of crops not possible further north in the state. Bananas, coconut, mango, papaya, carambola and passion fruit are all tropical fruits that will grow in southern Florida.

https://www.gardenguides.com/95787-frui ... orida.html

Calusa used the Mayan method of three sisters I think:



Corn, squash, and pole beans grow VERY well in that sand.

[Kath]

Some fruits, yes, but tomatoes? They need serious nutrients, which will wash away in the first major rain and I'll have dirt everywhere. The raised bed keeps the nutrient rich soil from going everywhere. /shrug - I want to do this the easiest way possible. I don't see the point in making it harder than it needs to be. (Added bonus of less bending over.)

[SuburbanFarmer]

That’s what he said.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Installed a rabbit fence around my garden - complete with a working gate.

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The cedar fence is “decorative”.

You don't think they can jump over that?

Don’t know. We shall see.

I do know that the local groundhog and opossums can’t do it.

[Speaker to Animals]

Some fruits, yes, but tomatoes? They need serious nutrients, which will wash away in the first major rain and I'll have dirt everywhere. The raised bed keeps the nutrient rich soil from going everywhere. /shrug - I want to do this the easiest way possible. I don't see the point in making it harder than it needs to be. (Added bonus of less bending over.)

I grew tomatoes just fine. Did you use fertilizer?

Kath, I am telling you, I grew a shit ton of food in that sugar sand as a child. No internet to tell me how to do it. I was just a kid. I am sure you can figure it out.

[Okeefenokee]

Interesting that the UK cares more about the welfare of a cow than a human child.

Hmmmm. We already have veal. It's not too far from a market for meat from animals that starved to death.

[Kath]

Kath, I am telling you, I grew a shit ton of food in that sugar sand as a child. No internet to tell me how to do it. I was just a kid. I am sure you can figure it out.

Not sure why it's so important to you. Damn dude, I want a garden with soil and worms.... Sand is for beaches.

[Speaker to Animals]

Tomatoes growing in South Florida "beach sand".