#1 2020-03-29 08:33:10
The same one pound bag of Navy Beans - $1 at my local market, before its shelves were stripped clean - now sells on Amazon for $14. The $4/lb peanuts I usually buy for $3 are $19. Same is true all the way down my list.
I have a couple weeks of provisions, if I'm careful, but by then my best guess I won't find staples anywhere at any affordable price. Not at this rate.
How are you folks getting along?
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#2 2020-03-29 10:19:55
How long till you can get a crop in the ground?
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#3 2020-03-29 11:17:06
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
How long till you can get a crop in the ground?
I potted heirloom tomato seed under a timered light this morning. I'll have trade surplus in Aug, hopefully.
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#4 2020-03-29 12:01:07
How about potatoes? The coastal facing upland hills around the bay from you were planted in them since the white men got them up from South America. What varieties work there?
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#5 2020-03-29 12:33:11
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
How about potatoes? The coastal facing upland hills around the bay from you were planted in them since the white men got them up from South America. What varieties work there?
None of the multicolored variety of taste and texture I found in Lima as a kid. I lost all interest in potatoes when we repatriated to the land of powdered instant and freedom fries.
My postage stamp lot is draped by 14 mature trees, 5 inside the tent, nine abutting, mostly oak.
I cut a single row garden around 2 sides of the house, filled with the last 6 years of leaf mulch.
Tomatoes deter most pests.
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#6 2020-03-29 12:45:34
Any community garden areas with some more sun close by? ust for a few more things rather than a big project.
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#7 2020-03-29 15:30:15
Just hanging out on the western periphery of the Shenandoah Valley, on the surrounding mountain slopes waiting for the end of the whirl. Soil here is rotten shale and sand. That is, there is very little soil. All my foods are produced by others, sad to say. [Here in Trump country, they don't know what to believe.] 
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