Arts said:

Divine Angel said:

A local nursery has an ad on fb saying, “what fuel crisis? If you’re worried about food’s future, grow your own! Plant once, harvest forever”. Nice sentiment but not everyone has space to grow their own orchard.

growing food is not as simple as plant then harvest – there’s maintenance, fertiliser, seasons, local conditions, watering, and correct harvesting etc etc to do.. it’s not a set and forget process.. they always make it sound like it’s the easiest thing to do, but if you are time poor, or dont have the right soil conditions, or not the initial money to invest.. then you can’t feed a family carrots and tomatoes for the years until you learn or find the time or have to tiem to diversify crops, let alone having the space or whatever…

then when you do manage to get a good harvest – are you going to eat fucking capsicum for all of your meals and snacks? plant once harvest forever – fuck all the way off with you

need to grow stuff that you can pick as needed, and you like. I gave away heaps of tomatoes this year, plus tom paste. greens are good as you can pick a few leaves at a time, and they are fresh.