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Gardening 2024
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I envy you Chiefsmom.   You have this very rare substance called............ soil.   Oh Lordy, wouldn't it be swell.  Still, we have a rare substances to you, or at least I think so called......   cocopeat and seaweed meal.   Newsflash:   Cukes don't care for blazing hot/sandy loam/ salt environment, HOWEVER, change one variable, and make the soil rich with seaweed meal and make it retain water with cocopeat, and Voilà!  It Lives!!  It's a-LIVE!!  

Ok, so this year's projects are twofold:   Water Spinach, and Chayote aka Cho-cho.   Water spinach is fairly easy to grow, except it is super-invasive, so much be contained somehow.   It is illegal to grow in much of the U.S. because it just takes over.   Tasty stuff though, and will keep a few people alive.   

Chayote is in the gourd family, but tastes like a squash.   It can be eaten raw, and is cucumberish, or fried, mashed, and I like making fritters out of them.   Traditional use is in soup as a tasty filler.   Once established, one plant can feed a family.   Well.......... not feed them if that's all they're eating, but as a side dish it really delivers.   

Since those of us down here in the Caribbean see the same things you all do -- that is to say everything going to crap at an alarming rate, we are determined to grow landfood --  breadfruit, sweet potato, tomato, cukes, pumpkin,  chayote, etc., and harvest mobile MREs (feral chickens) and harvest seafood (fish, spiny lobster in season, conch in season, whelks (Turban snail), etc.). 

I envy you also all the berries.   Berries take a hell of a lot more work than most people realize.   Not just letting a bush grow and the picking it.   Strawberries, especially (which, I guess aren't technically berries, but who's counting?)
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Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 05-17-2024, 02:22 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Nerb - 05-17-2024, 05:20 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Oldcarpy2 - 05-18-2024, 10:47 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Maxmars - 05-17-2024, 06:50 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Nerb - 05-18-2024, 08:44 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 05-20-2024, 07:18 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Nerb - 05-20-2024, 09:08 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Oldcarpy2 - 05-21-2024, 10:29 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by pianopraze - 05-20-2024, 10:03 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 05-22-2024, 07:25 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by pianopraze - 05-22-2024, 10:26 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Karl12 - 05-22-2024, 10:45 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 05-22-2024, 02:13 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Karl12 - 05-22-2024, 02:39 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 05-24-2024, 02:30 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 06-04-2024, 07:25 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 06-11-2024, 08:00 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by MykeNukem - 06-11-2024, 08:10 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 06-11-2024, 10:34 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by MykeNukem - 06-11-2024, 11:13 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 06-18-2024, 12:04 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 07-09-2024, 02:52 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Waterglass - 07-10-2024, 05:52 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 07-22-2024, 08:25 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by argentus - 07-22-2024, 08:39 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 08-01-2024, 01:21 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 09-10-2024, 11:49 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by l0st - 09-10-2024, 09:13 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 09-12-2024, 11:02 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by l0st - 09-12-2024, 11:58 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 09-24-2024, 07:59 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 10-16-2024, 02:02 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Ray1990 - 10-16-2024, 03:31 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Chiefsmom - 10-17-2024, 07:37 AM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Ray1990 - 10-25-2024, 01:25 PM
RE: Gardening 2024 - by Maxmars - 10-16-2024, 05:16 PM

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