Gonna guess I'm not alone in imagining that with a couple of basil plants and a tomato vine I could ride out the end of the world. You can see a couple of our Apocalypse Greens here, guarded by my ferocious hell hound. The basil down in the left-hand corner is gone now. Harvested for pesto last week. It was delicious.
Not me. We done have soil, just rock. But we did have a discussion about which one of the 5 of us would be best to eat first. We agreed that Ms Age 12 was best, she didn't think that was a good idea. Mr Age 17 then said we should turn Mr Age 16 into jerky at the same time because Mr Age 16 eats the most. Made sense, took a vote and that's now law.
Might be gardeners, might be doomsday preppers, might be market manipulators and profiteers, hoarding truck loads of alfalfa seeds until the black market price hits their profit-margin sweet-spot. Or not. The guy with a shed full of toilet paper looked pretty silly when he tried to return it and they wouldn't take it back.
There's quite a few things that shoot nicely from the pieces you buy in the grocers: shallots, fennel, probably carrots. Tomatoes -- most things with seeds. Wait for your potatoes to shoot in the cupboard and plant those. I've never managed to cultivate coriander successfully, but you just can't kill parsley once it takes hold...
We too have apocalypse greens although they aren't doing as well as yours. It does remind me of the time we grew corn, and just as they were getting to the point of exciting, we came home to find our local fucking cockatoos had nipped them all off at the base so they could have one bite of each ear and piss off.
I've had my veg patch for a few years now - 6 pads of 4m diameter with a chicken dome/tractor that gets moved every month (made it out of poly and wrapped in chicken wire). The whole lot surrounded by fruit trees and berries etc and a rabbit proof fence around the whole of that. I hadn't collected enough seeds for autumns planting and got gazumped by the apocalypse gardeners. Same for replacement chickens (my lot are getting old and i'm down to 5 with 1 mean arsed rooster) - everyone wanted chickens so the local feed barn was experiencing a supply and demand problem. Really looking forward to the fruit this year though - heaps of rain compared to last years drought. I also have 8 cider apple trees in (3 different varieties), although i won't harvest until the next season - they only went in last winter. Spring is my real apocalypse - crimson rosellas (the fruit zombies) that will strip everything if you leave one gap in the defence line. Which reminds me - i have to go prepare for war.
Speaking of hell hounds the latinized form of the Greek Κέρβερος (Kerberos), meant "spotted". In Greek myth this was the name of the three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to Hades. So Cerebus could, in one interpretation, be named "Spot".
Once the toilet paper supplies were hoarded, and then flour and pasta supplies were next, everyone moved on to veggie gardens. A friend of mine, who had time to herself and decided that starting a veggie garden might be the thing while she was working from home was astonished to discover, when she went to her local HammerBarn, that we were in the middle of a nation wide shortage of seeds and seedlings for vegetables. So yeah, not just you, looks like everyone went into Apocalypse mode. She expressed her outrage to me, since I'd just started working for HammberBarn in their IT department, so of course I was personally responsible and could fix the seed shortage for her 😂
It's not just you. Gardening supplies have been really in demand this year, some stuff has been tough to find. According to the people in the stores, it's because a bunch of people who usually don't garden are trying their hands at it this year. BTW, that pesto looks great. Nothing like it on a pasta dish.
Not me. We done have soil, just rock. But we did have a discussion about which one of the 5 of us would be best to eat first. We agreed that Ms Age 12 was best, she didn't think that was a good idea. Mr Age 17 then said we should turn Mr Age 16 into jerky at the same time because Mr Age 16 eats the most. Made sense, took a vote and that's now law.
Might be gardeners, might be doomsday preppers, might be market manipulators and profiteers, hoarding truck loads of alfalfa seeds until the black market price hits their profit-margin sweet-spot. Or not. The guy with a shed full of toilet paper looked pretty silly when he tried to return it and they wouldn't take it back.
There's quite a few things that shoot nicely from the pieces you buy in the grocers: shallots, fennel, probably carrots. Tomatoes -- most things with seeds. Wait for your potatoes to shoot in the cupboard and plant those. I've never managed to cultivate coriander successfully, but you just can't kill parsley once it takes hold...
We too have apocalypse greens although they aren't doing as well as yours. It does remind me of the time we grew corn, and just as they were getting to the point of exciting, we came home to find our local fucking cockatoos had nipped them all off at the base so they could have one bite of each ear and piss off.
I've had my veg patch for a few years now - 6 pads of 4m diameter with a chicken dome/tractor that gets moved every month (made it out of poly and wrapped in chicken wire). The whole lot surrounded by fruit trees and berries etc and a rabbit proof fence around the whole of that. I hadn't collected enough seeds for autumns planting and got gazumped by the apocalypse gardeners. Same for replacement chickens (my lot are getting old and i'm down to 5 with 1 mean arsed rooster) - everyone wanted chickens so the local feed barn was experiencing a supply and demand problem. Really looking forward to the fruit this year though - heaps of rain compared to last years drought. I also have 8 cider apple trees in (3 different varieties), although i won't harvest until the next season - they only went in last winter. Spring is my real apocalypse - crimson rosellas (the fruit zombies) that will strip everything if you leave one gap in the defence line. Which reminds me - i have to go prepare for war.
Speaking of hell hounds the latinized form of the Greek Κέρβερος (Kerberos), meant "spotted". In Greek myth this was the name of the three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to Hades. So Cerebus could, in one interpretation, be named "Spot".
Once the toilet paper supplies were hoarded, and then flour and pasta supplies were next, everyone moved on to veggie gardens. A friend of mine, who had time to herself and decided that starting a veggie garden might be the thing while she was working from home was astonished to discover, when she went to her local HammerBarn, that we were in the middle of a nation wide shortage of seeds and seedlings for vegetables. So yeah, not just you, looks like everyone went into Apocalypse mode. She expressed her outrage to me, since I'd just started working for HammberBarn in their IT department, so of course I was personally responsible and could fix the seed shortage for her 😂
It's not just you. Gardening supplies have been really in demand this year, some stuff has been tough to find. According to the people in the stores, it's because a bunch of people who usually don't garden are trying their hands at it this year. BTW, that pesto looks great. Nothing like it on a pasta dish.