Bogsnorkler said:

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.

ok, so we eat spinach and cherry tomatoes… or like you say, set it up so that one guy grows the tomatoes and the other neighbours grows cucumbers.. etc and do swapsies – until neighbour 12 has a huge fight with neighbour 8 aout leaving their car parked on the verge, so they no longer swap corn and broccoli, so them neighbour 8 decides they will just grow all the veggies and move his car off the verge to do so.. then has to greenhouse them so the ghastly neighbour kids don’t come pick his food in the middle of the night, which leads him to selling his food to the other neighbours via a little stand on the verge where his car used to be parked… because he has too much wastage – which he then franchises into more store in other streets.. and we end up the same because it’s actually cheaper and easier to buy other peoples work than finance a whole garden yourself. – and anyway you are too busy writing to the local council about neighbours cars parked on the verge