I'll keep this post updated and let everyone know how many cases of veggies and sauces I put up this year.
Besides my time, I have about $50 (seed, gas, fence, potting soil peat containers, etc.) invested in this so far, but that's not counting the $50 I spent on two shop lights and four bulbs to get the seedlings going. But they will get used every year.
The garden is a good match for my array of guns, pond, timber, pasture, fruit trees and soon to come sheep, and until that tragic boating accident ... the 400 ounces of silver and gold I used to have.
My wife and I are also very close to being completely debt free to boot.
Nice garden, wish I had one similar and the space for it. The wife did not take to kindly to my idea of plowing up the backyard with my miniature Kubota; so I am experimenting this year with square foot gardening in raised beds. My daughter got a kick out of eating some Adirondack Blue fingerling potatoes fresh from the garden the other night.
The garden is in our front yard, Wife doesn't mind at all, but was a little concerned at first. After seeing the results, she likes it, so all is well. But then we live in the county, so it's not really unusual. Thanks for the compliment.
Guns, and lots of ammo and people who know how to shoot those guns and who are willing to kill to protect all that... There will be lots of hungry people looking to take it!
My SHTF location is a peninsula surrounded by water. Only one road in and the land on each side of the road is swampy nearly impenetrable thicket. Doesn't matter how much stuff you have stockpiled, how nice a garden you have or how packed full of fish your pond is... If you cannot protect all that, it's a waste of time when SHTF.
Well, I feel pretty good about where we are. This part of Missouri is sparsely populated and visitors stick out and are quickly noticed. Most people are pretty independent as well as well-armed.
The county seat only has a population of 4425 and the entire county is only 12,500 people in 597 square miles. Less than 5,000 households in all. Lamar is the county seat, birthplace of Harry Truman and the only town in the county with a population greater than 1,000.
Well, I feel pretty good about where we are. This part of Missouri is sparsely populated and visitors stick out and are quickly noticed. Most people are pretty independent as well as well-armed.
The county seat only has a population of 4425 and the entire county is only 12,500 people in 597 square miles. Less than 5,000 households in all. Lamar is the county seat, birthplace of Harry Truman and the only town in the county with a population greater than 1,000.
Yesterday was my 49th birthday. I worked around the place. It's been 7 weeks since my original post and thought I'd do an update.
We really have not got much out of the garden yet, other than some new potatoes, some cucumbers and about a dozen or so jalapeno's, but she is shining. I'm going to be busier than a one-legged man in an a$$ kicking contest in august.
The corn is over 6 foot, tasseling and setting ears. The 60-65 tomato plants are loaded. Taters are doing their thing Bell peppers are looking good. Beans are all blossuming and starting set. It's hard not to be happy.
Life is good and retirement and doing what you love is even better.
