Record Snowfall Sweeps Utah Mountains; Heavy Snow Hits Saskatchewan And Manitoba; Majority Of Record-Highs Set Prior To 1955; + UK Supermarkets Warn Of Vegetable Shortage
Record Snowfall Sweeps Utah Mountains; Heavy Snow Hits Saskatchewan And Manitoba; Majority Of Record-Highs Set Prior To 1955; + UK Supermarkets Warn Of Vegetable Shortage
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Small space garden solution. I was working on a less strenuous & less labor
intensive garden design using earth-boxes.
What I came up with is initially expensive but it has so many fail safes that if you have limited space and limited experience you might give this design a try.
List of advantages:
Only two Earthbox table supports.
Advantage makes it easy to control ants and other crawling insects. 🕷️ 🐜
Screen cloth can be used to eliminate flying insects & birds.
Footprint is only 8’ X 2&1/2’
Holds six standard size earth boxes. 12 if you
add a second level. Second level only for the young and strong.
Earthbox takes the guessing out of watering.
Just add irrigation lines or manually add water to the fill tubes daily and you can’t over or under water. Plastic cover sheds excessive rain water.
Design:
Burry two 8’X 4”X 4” posts 1&1/2 feet deep.
Cement in.
Nail two 2” by 4” by 8’ boards on each side of the buried posts, At the same height. What ever height is most comfortable to you. Use four shelf supports to add one more two by four on each side Outside of your boards nailed to the posts. Obviously they need to be close enough to support the earth boxes.
Now on the extra length of 4 X 4 by eight post above your Earthbox support bench you can add another level for more earth boxes or
cattle panel trellis.
Wish I could send a picture of my set up.
I thought I couldn’t grow enough food on my small property but now I know I can. So can
You if you have a sunny space.
Excited about this.
I am experimenting with growing potatoes in the Earthbox. Two plants per box. If they grow
5 potatoes per plant and you use the two level design mentioned above that’s 5X2 per box Times 12 Boxes = 120 potatoes. Footprint is only 8’ X 2&1/2’
You will not survive on your own without potatoes. Two per day per person will keep you alive. Sweet potatoes even better and you can eat the leaves.
Let you know in three months how my potatoes
work in an Earthbox.
I checked these out. Looks like it has a reservoir in the bottom, but it has an overflow so it doesn’t overfill if it rains all day. Don’t poke any holes in yours, lol! And don’t bother to cover it when it rains.
Depending on finances, I might purchase a couple. There’s a good deal on Amazon for two.
Kennebec potatoes that’s what I put in the box. If you buy the full earth box it comes with dolomite Lyme and fertilizer. For potatoes I’m lowering the PH so I skip the dolomite & add surfer pellets by sprinkling in. Added blood meal and bone meal plus fertilizer strip. 50 50 potting mix and compost. The shower cap they include helps keep the rain water from washing out the nutrients you have added to the box.
It is also a weed barrier & does the job of mulching. I will let you know how my potatoes do. The green zone is just now breaking ground.
There are plenty of websites with plans to make your own EarthBoxes… cost about 1/4 or less of the purchased ones. I used 16 homemade ones in a small greenhouse for over 10 years, and they held up very well. Every year, I’d dump them, remove 1/3rd of the soil, mix in compost and refill. They are fantastic for carrots and beets, and if you set up trellises (cattle panels work great), you can grow vines as well as large plants like tomatoes
A common comment on any “prepper” website is that “I will grow my own food when I need to.” Unless you are raising meat animals and chickens you are going to starve. It is VERY difficult to “grow” calories unless you grow unhealthy corn/grains. Beef, lamb, goats and to a lesser degree pigs/chickens is just about the only way to survive. If all you eat is plants you will miss out on vital nutrients. Just a thought. I founded and managed an organic fertilizer company so I know a thing or two about growing plants and there is NO way I would rely on a garden to feed me or my family.
Consider freeze dried meat like Mountain House or Thrive Life. Shelf life 25 years. Supplement with vegetation. Also, properly stored rice, beans, and dehydrated potatoes have a very long shelf life, 20-25 years. This simplifies food storage considerably.
Vegetation can be had from the wild spring-autumn, dehydrated or canned to last the winter.
Good advice. While Michael is right you can’t get enough calories from
most vegetables to live on they do provide
vitamin & medical supplements. The ones that can be cooked help keep you psychologically
normalized. We are accustomed to cooking dinner. A little dried meat added, makes dinner even better.
Ben Davison explains the solar flare in this video, but more importantly, mentions a paper by an Air Force captain, discussing the coming magnetic pole flip. https://youtu.be/xLL0wDljyKU?si=1PsZVnSn6Bgok8S5
Apparently, Ben is going to unpack this paper on this evening’s program at “Suspicious Observers” on YouTube.
An absurd geoengineering project involving placing a 62-mile curtain in front of an Antarctic glacier to stop warm-water currents from melting it is being proposed by scientists.
Back in the early 60s they cleared the woods across the street and built houses. One fine fellow we got to know was growing veggies in the garage using hydroponics and overhead grow lights. He bought the Garden Center in town and moved into a big mansion down the road. He had a lab doing plant crossings with award winning plants, shrubs, etc. Garden Magazine winning stuff. Hydroponic veggies in the garage in ’63? Big fat carrots and green onions.
Indoor weed growers went hydroponics, auto carbon misters and light timers. One little plant is worth two tons of spuds. I stopped at one grower supply store and showed them the solar cycle chart and told them they need to grow FOOD. HELLO?
You can grow lots of food indoors, even underground in the bunker. Switch the weed industry to growing FOOD.
I had a kitchen garden once right out the back door that produced beautifully. Started with straight clay (that was our natural soil there), added lots of sand. Then, each day, I put my produce scraps in the blender with some water and poured the resulting emulsion into a different little hole I dug each day in my garden, then covered it back over with dirt.
I’ve been wanting to reproduce that ever since, but it never works out. For decades I rented, now my natural “soil” is all rocks in various sizes.
I think I’ll try the Earthboxes. I can take them with me when I move.
Btw, now would be a good time to locate and patronize butcher shops in your area, especially if they sell locally raised meat. Help keep these people in business, and the meat is bound to be better quality than the large chains’ (naming no names that begin with W). Farmer’s markets and flea markets with produce sellers (in season) are also a great idea.
Okay, this stuff costs a little more, but these guys will probably still be around when the big stores start running out of stuff, especially if we support them now. And the quality is bound to be superior, more like homegrown.
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Small space garden solution. I was working on a less strenuous & less labor
intensive garden design using earth-boxes.
What I came up with is initially expensive but it has so many fail safes that if you have limited space and limited experience you might give this design a try.
List of advantages:
Only two Earthbox table supports.
Advantage makes it easy to control ants and other crawling insects. 🕷️ 🐜
Screen cloth can be used to eliminate flying insects & birds.
Footprint is only 8’ X 2&1/2’
Holds six standard size earth boxes. 12 if you
add a second level. Second level only for the young and strong.
Earthbox takes the guessing out of watering.
Just add irrigation lines or manually add water to the fill tubes daily and you can’t over or under water. Plastic cover sheds excessive rain water.
Design:
Burry two 8’X 4”X 4” posts 1&1/2 feet deep.
Cement in.
Nail two 2” by 4” by 8’ boards on each side of the buried posts, At the same height. What ever height is most comfortable to you. Use four shelf supports to add one more two by four on each side Outside of your boards nailed to the posts. Obviously they need to be close enough to support the earth boxes.
Now on the extra length of 4 X 4 by eight post above your Earthbox support bench you can add another level for more earth boxes or
cattle panel trellis.
Wish I could send a picture of my set up.
I thought I couldn’t grow enough food on my small property but now I know I can. So can
You if you have a sunny space.
Excited about this.
I am experimenting with growing potatoes in the Earthbox. Two plants per box. If they grow
5 potatoes per plant and you use the two level design mentioned above that’s 5X2 per box Times 12 Boxes = 120 potatoes. Footprint is only 8’ X 2&1/2’
You will not survive on your own without potatoes. Two per day per person will keep you alive. Sweet potatoes even better and you can eat the leaves.
Let you know in three months how my potatoes
work in an Earthbox.
I wish you could send a photo too.
PS It’s better to provide good drainage than to protect from rain. Poke some holes in the bottom and it sounds like a great idea.
I checked these out. Looks like it has a reservoir in the bottom, but it has an overflow so it doesn’t overfill if it rains all day. Don’t poke any holes in yours, lol! And don’t bother to cover it when it rains.
Depending on finances, I might purchase a couple. There’s a good deal on Amazon for two.
Kennebec potatoes that’s what I put in the box. If you buy the full earth box it comes with dolomite Lyme and fertilizer. For potatoes I’m lowering the PH so I skip the dolomite & add surfer pellets by sprinkling in. Added blood meal and bone meal plus fertilizer strip. 50 50 potting mix and compost. The shower cap they include helps keep the rain water from washing out the nutrients you have added to the box.
It is also a weed barrier & does the job of mulching. I will let you know how my potatoes do. The green zone is just now breaking ground.
Good luck!
The 10 fold jump in skeptical climate postings on Twitter/X? I reckon the increase began about the time Elon Musk took charge.
We need more information freedom, just about everywhere!
There are plenty of websites with plans to make your own EarthBoxes… cost about 1/4 or less of the purchased ones. I used 16 homemade ones in a small greenhouse for over 10 years, and they held up very well. Every year, I’d dump them, remove 1/3rd of the soil, mix in compost and refill. They are fantastic for carrots and beets, and if you set up trellises (cattle panels work great), you can grow vines as well as large plants like tomatoes
A common comment on any “prepper” website is that “I will grow my own food when I need to.” Unless you are raising meat animals and chickens you are going to starve. It is VERY difficult to “grow” calories unless you grow unhealthy corn/grains. Beef, lamb, goats and to a lesser degree pigs/chickens is just about the only way to survive. If all you eat is plants you will miss out on vital nutrients. Just a thought. I founded and managed an organic fertilizer company so I know a thing or two about growing plants and there is NO way I would rely on a garden to feed me or my family.
Consider freeze dried meat like Mountain House or Thrive Life. Shelf life 25 years. Supplement with vegetation. Also, properly stored rice, beans, and dehydrated potatoes have a very long shelf life, 20-25 years. This simplifies food storage considerably.
Vegetation can be had from the wild spring-autumn, dehydrated or canned to last the winter.
Good advice. While Michael is right you can’t get enough calories from
most vegetables to live on they do provide
vitamin & medical supplements. The ones that can be cooked help keep you psychologically
normalized. We are accustomed to cooking dinner. A little dried meat added, makes dinner even better.
Don’t forget the carbs, rice or dried potatoes. Makes great soups, stretches further, adds calories.
Soup is 1000% better with herbs. Grow them in your Earthbox. Dry the extras for medicinal teas in the winter.
3/11/11 was the Japan tsunami that blew up Fukushima, they shut down all Japan nuke plants and had to buy more oil, ng, and coal for a third less juice. Exponential growth stopped, debt set in.
The quake was from an X1.5 solar flare, not that big. Mercury is going by Jupiter now just like back in December when the strongest solar flare ever recorded was. Two flares yesterday, one was a yuge rip. YUGE! Headline at Space Weather today, Flare hits Mercury. No mention of the Jupiter conjunction that caused the flare. Was that it? What’s the Sun’s polarity doing? It was New Moon in December like now last M/J conjunction. Electrowhat? M7.4 flare today.
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c2.gif
https://www.spaceweather.com/images2024/10mar24/cme_anim.gif
https://www.solarham.net/pictures/2024/mar10_2024_m7.4.jpg
https://gong.nso.edu/data/magmap/QR/bqG/202403/mrbqG240309/mrbqG240309t1414c2282_344.gif
https://gong.nso.edu/data/magmap/combo_gmodel_movie.html
Try fried butter clams and tater salad, a match made in heaven:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYMOASga1Zc&t=4s
Raining cats and dogs and 39F here at 10am, not the best gardening weather.
https://komonews.com/weather/radar
Ben Davison explains the solar flare in this video, but more importantly, mentions a paper by an Air Force captain, discussing the coming magnetic pole flip.
https://youtu.be/xLL0wDljyKU?si=1PsZVnSn6Bgok8S5
Apparently, Ben is going to unpack this paper on this evening’s program at “Suspicious Observers” on YouTube.
Bizarre Geoengineering Project Floated to Save the World From “Doomsday Glacier”
https://thenewamerican.com/us/environment/bizarre-geoengineering-project-floated-to-save-the-world-from-doomsday-glacier/
An absurd geoengineering project involving placing a 62-mile curtain in front of an Antarctic glacier to stop warm-water currents from melting it is being proposed by scientists.
Back in the early 60s they cleared the woods across the street and built houses. One fine fellow we got to know was growing veggies in the garage using hydroponics and overhead grow lights. He bought the Garden Center in town and moved into a big mansion down the road. He had a lab doing plant crossings with award winning plants, shrubs, etc. Garden Magazine winning stuff. Hydroponic veggies in the garage in ’63? Big fat carrots and green onions.
Indoor weed growers went hydroponics, auto carbon misters and light timers. One little plant is worth two tons of spuds. I stopped at one grower supply store and showed them the solar cycle chart and told them they need to grow FOOD. HELLO?
You can grow lots of food indoors, even underground in the bunker. Switch the weed industry to growing FOOD.
When food pays better than weed, they will.
I had a kitchen garden once right out the back door that produced beautifully. Started with straight clay (that was our natural soil there), added lots of sand. Then, each day, I put my produce scraps in the blender with some water and poured the resulting emulsion into a different little hole I dug each day in my garden, then covered it back over with dirt.
I’ve been wanting to reproduce that ever since, but it never works out. For decades I rented, now my natural “soil” is all rocks in various sizes.
I think I’ll try the Earthboxes. I can take them with me when I move.
Btw, now would be a good time to locate and patronize butcher shops in your area, especially if they sell locally raised meat. Help keep these people in business, and the meat is bound to be better quality than the large chains’ (naming no names that begin with W). Farmer’s markets and flea markets with produce sellers (in season) are also a great idea.
Okay, this stuff costs a little more, but these guys will probably still be around when the big stores start running out of stuff, especially if we support them now. And the quality is bound to be superior, more like homegrown.