How Will The Floods And Freezes Result in Shortages at the Grocery

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Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:32 am

Julianna wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:17 am @Bower we would be happy to help with your swiss chard project! I like it but the boys love it and we go through it like crazy. It overwinters here and will bolt. I can easily collect seed for you.
It over winters here many times too.
I saw one plant at a nursery one year half the size of a Volkswagen. :lol:
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Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:36 am

worth1 wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:32 am
Julianna wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:17 am @Bower we would be happy to help with your swiss chard project! I like it but the boys love it and we go through it like crazy. It overwinters here and will bolt. I can easily collect seed for you.
It over winters here many times too.
I saw one plant at a nursery one year half the size of a Volkswagen. :lol:
Ha! Mine isn't that big but i bet if i could grow it in the ground without gophers eating it, it could do that. In a bin tightly packed it still reaches 2ft tall.
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Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:44 am

@Julianna that's great!! Children have a great sense of taste, so they will make excellent selectors of taste favorites! :)
Send me your addy in a pm, and I will pack up some seeds for my next trip to the post office.
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Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:46 am

I live in the salad bowl :) lots of stuff was damaged in flooding. They will recover though most likely. Around here they grow the greens, brassicas, and artichokes year round. Strawberries and berries are the main fruit crops. Not saying they dont grow other stuff, but those are the heavy hitters.

I figured out what does well in my bins from what we eat and just focus on that. I will plant a ton of potatoes, chards, carrots, tomatoes, etc again. I have stands of berries and bins of strawberries but i never get fruit off those things since it is all eaten by a prolific garden pest/assistant known as Delicious boyae spp micro.

@Bower sure thing! It is funny how much they love swiss chard. They hate any bit of bitterness so they will be good at selecting. Plus the four-year-old has gotten into "experiments." I bet if i put a taste test to him he would like that.
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