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Post by Sigurdur on May 11, 2022 22:08:52 GMT
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Post by Sigurdur on May 15, 2022 1:27:53 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on May 15, 2022 2:45:18 GMT
If our wet spring turns hot and dry, my native grasses will be 8 feet tall. They love that. |
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Post by missouriboy on May 15, 2022 3:30:32 GMT
Hope they still have enough apricots for me.
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Post by missouriboy on May 17, 2022 3:56:03 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on May 20, 2022 14:33:49 GMT
When Woke becomes a Wake. We are not the only ones with a stupid government.
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Post by glennkoks on May 22, 2022 22:41:29 GMT
Interesting video from an economic perspective about the upcoming food crisis. I would love to get comments from Sigurdur and the other resident farmers and food producers about it. It's 15 minutes for economic nerds but I don't think the numbers are incorrect.
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Post by code on May 23, 2022 16:35:01 GMT
The Economist: The coming food catastrophe.War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone’s business
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Post by missouriboy on May 25, 2022 14:25:59 GMT
I had never grown potatoes before, so this year I created a raised bed area bounded by ~2-ft vertical borders to hold the mulch that I would add as the plants grew. The advice was to keep the plants buried to just below the the growing tops. I planted already sprouting reds from our store-bought home supply. Wow. These guys really grow fast. I planted them 6-8" deep and have been "hilling them ever since. I'm up to about 1.5' feet of mulched material and they are outgrowing my efforts. I think that they have grown 3" in the last 3 days. I will add a final few inches of mulch before we leave and I will see what happens in the 3 weeks we are gone. Should be plenty of vertical material to the support the tubers that develop ... but we will see.
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Post by nonentropic on May 25, 2022 20:48:09 GMT
yes MB you begin to understand that the transformation of Europe was driven by this one introduced plant into Europe.
I read some time ago that the Romans left Britain because a cold period impacted the Chestnut production which was key stored produce of the period. I think we all know how little a chestnut tree produces when compared to the needs of a family or a potato patch.
Then imagine a country quite small at a relatively high latitude in the midst of a LIA and a blight with 6 million people. Ireland would have been hell on earth then.
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Post by missouriboy on May 25, 2022 21:21:32 GMT
yes MB you begin to understand that the transformation of Europe was driven by this one introduced plant into Europe. I read some time ago that the Romans left Britain because a cold period impacted the Chestnut production which was key stored produce of the period. I think we all know how little a chestnut tree produces when compared to the needs of a family or a potato patch. Then imagine a country quite small at a relatively high latitude in the midst of a LIA and a blight with 6 million people. Ireland would have been hell on earth then. Yes. And it is said that the English landlords helped them out a bit. Or so the American Irish say. I'm going to try to at least equal this guy.  Got my Missouri tee-shirt for Volterra. |
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Post by missouriboy on May 31, 2022 1:34:07 GMT
A spiffy little wheat export chart about 3 clicks down. Basic food independence cannot be achieved by relying on other peoples exports. The ancestors knew this in the old times. Results of the last three years send a message to the descendants.
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Post by Sigurdur on Jun 9, 2022 12:09:16 GMT
Finished planting spuds yesterday. A lot of crop has gone in the ground this past week. There will be an yield, won't be a large one.
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Post by DontGetOutMuch on Jun 10, 2022 22:24:10 GMT
Whoa! A little late. Any idea's on how harvest is going to be? Big picture?
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Post by Sigurdur on Jun 11, 2022 16:50:45 GMT
Whoa! A little late. Any idea's on how harvest is going to be? Big picture? It will be a late harvest in the Upper Midwest. As far as how harvest is going to be? Late ones are never good because daylight hrs shrink, temps are highly variable etc. |
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Got my Missouri tee-shirt for Volterra.