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| title | "Abundance of food and a lack of builders." |
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# <center>Survive or thrive?</center>
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Surviving is adequate but hardly exceptional. Thriving gives each and everyone of us the chance to share what we have extra.
I picked today around 10lb of potatoes. 1 stem of rhubarb for a fresh crumble pie desert for 1, me.
Some carrots, 15lb of apples off the floor of course. Only ripe when they hit the floor.
2 different varieties of grapes and a solitary cucumber.
I pick what I need only. No need to pick it all as yet.
I would say another week and the grapes will be perfect for making a nice warming winter juice.
Carrots well they can last a winter underground so I will pick as I need.
Mint always comes back too.
Other vegetables that come back year on year are onions, parsley, raspberries, the latter spread out via roots and make new plants. It is best to cut the old ones down to the ground and promote the new plants as they are juicier fruit and less prone to fruit rot/black rot.
Mint will spread as far as it wants via the root. We have some 30 feet from where originally planted.
Potatoes are impossible to find at times, so they will come back year on year due to the ones we miss.
Rhubarb never dies, it may look like it has but year on year it comes back bigger. See below.
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***Onions are another that come back year on year.***
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I never understand why more people do not grow food, even in window trays.
I have never understood why governments will plant a tree but not one that gives fruit for free.
Although I have been in the position with regards to a 60 - 70 hour working week, so can understand the lack of time for some.
My moto now is grow food not grass lawns.
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***That patch above I was weeding today.***
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It was a tomato patch. It now only serves me potatoes, celery and broad beans.
I left some weeds for my daughter to take out. I feel it important she understands which plants are food and which are weeds.
Moving on to a side garden, looks a tad overrun but most of it is parsley, carrots, peppers, onions, rhubarb, grapes, green beans and a host of other edibles.
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# <center>The gov are banging the drums about food shortages, again (yawn).</center>
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We have fields full of food, enough to feed the locals twice over for a year, bang them drums, not listening!
My good lady likes to make sure winter is covered, jam, juice, fresh veg etc.
So she puts quite a lot of veggies in salt water and pasteurises them via boiling with the lid closed.
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You should see the jam preserve reserves we have, must be 200 jars and counting. Apple, raspberry, strawberry and more.
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***She has the basement full of jars. Hardly likely to starve are we.***
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Well since I have lived on this farm, 7 years plus now. I have had to learn new skills.
Woodwork for one, building for another.
It is pretty difficult to get a skilled tradesman to come out to the middle of nowhere to work for a few days.
So I have had to learn how to make things from wood myself. (My working life was automotive and race engineer)
So I need 2 new doors, and nobody is going to do it for me, so DIY it is.
These two doors.
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***Door on the right I keep some motorbike parts, door on the left my stray cats live in.***
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So I set about making new doors, and I am not the best with wood to say the least.
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Doors.
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***Just like me the doors are not perfect.***
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But they are functional, function over form.
Been a day of bliss. been visited by 2 young deer. Watched the geese heading off for Africa on their yearly migration, a week after the storks left.
25c all day and sunshine. No noise other than some woodpeckers, and crickets. Bliss, slice of heaven.
And even them pesky sky muck spreaders were not about today, so beautiful (remember them?) Blue sky.
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Hope you had a superb/salubrious day too.
What a wonderful world hey.
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