Just want to throw it out there I cracked up with the commentary regarding my watching the TV series “1923” without Maine Prepper Girl(aka Kass) and I being in trouble. I really enjoy the community and comradery. Let’s keep it going!!!
By the way…..I told MPG that we should start watching 1923 from the beginning…..together. We’ll see. Great show! Have you seen it?
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Picked up a couple 90% silver half-dollars at a local pawn shop when the silver spot price dropped. It’s a small and tiny investment in the while scheme of things, however, it’s a piece of the puzzle of an entire financial and preparedness system. A couple of 90% silver coins here and there over time will add up to a good position to handle complex economic times.
Or maybe I’ll have a bunch of shiny things.
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I picked up a few more food-grade buckets to add to the garden. Currently, I have several varieties of vegetables in buckets including potatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, tomatoes, beans, and peppers. The advantage of the buckets is soil control and mobility. Big disadvantage is container plants generally need more water than in ground plants.
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Here is the first salad from the garden. Well – at least the lettuce for a salad…..LOL. It was great eating something out of the garden…..just a bit of success! Starting over in Maine and learning a new climate is a starting point and it’s going to take some time to get things down. My 20 years of gardening experience in South Carolina I learned a ton. Adding that to what I’m doing now I should be able to get where I need to be in short order. 🥒
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I recently picked up several spare 20-lb propane tanks. I have had 6 spare propane tanks for years and these were used for cooking. I kept these 6 in case there was some interruption to the availability of propane as well as electricity normally used for cooking. Unfortunately, most of the 6 are in our camper back in Kentucky. Our current situation provides a woodstove that of course offers heat but also a cooking surface. We have an outside grill to go along with these spare propane tanks. This is important if the grid were to go down for any reason. Severe winter storm, electrical equipment malfunction, EMP – whatever.
By the way – tomorrow I’m picking up another 20 lb tank. Redundancy is good. One is none, two is one.
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Take care all. The world continues to get more and more insane. Nothing surprises me anymore and the future is completely unpredictable.
Stay safe and keep getting ready!
Rourke
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If you dig those buckets into the ground a bit it will help you with the water loss problem and you will still have good drainage. Here in SW Florida the reason we use some bucket plantings is often for nematode sensitive plants. You might not know what nematodes are and if so be thankful that you don’t need to know about them but in the sandy soils of Florida they are an ugly reality.
Rourke,
Be mindful of the expiration dates on the propane tanks. They expire usually in 10 years and many places will not fill them after the date. Solution to that issue is to take them to places where you swap out the tank for a new(er) filled one, no hassles.
Nothing surprises you anymore. That means you have adopted the correct paradigm to judge life as it happens. Kudos to you.
We recently had a deck added to the back of the house to which I put my three burner camp stove which I purchased a grill and pizza stone for. I’m thinking a small oven for it next. It always better sharing time with a loved one.
CaptTurbo, where I am in northeast FL every time I plant in the ground I get a root mat just below the surface which eventually gets thick enough to keep the plant from getting any water. I have asked neighbors and the county and nobody seems to know what it is and most of my nieghbors says they cancer anything to grow either. When I first moved here I dismantled a raised bed garden put in by the previous owner and found a six inch mat of that root.
Hi John. I’ve seen some of this in certain spots at my place. Areas where the ground seems to repel water. In general my advice is to use a layer of wood chips for mulch. It definitely helps.
CaptTurbo, thanks, t
ried that with a gig tree a few years ago and I still got them. I’m trying a Vegepod right now and if I don’t get the root problem I’m going to build raised beds and give gallon buckets raised off the ground, found them in the buckets that contacted the ground.
I’ve had luck with five gallon buckets set on the ground and just mulch all around the buckets. Actually my whole back yard has been wood chip mulch for the last eight years or so. Until Hurricane Ian destroyed the place I had an eight year old cayenne pepper plant (which was actually a little tree at that age) in a bucket on the ground. The roots grew through the bucket into the ground so it was a very happy and productive pepper plant, producing tens of thousands of peppers during that time.
I can only imagine the damaged from Ian. In 1992 my reserve unit out of Orlando spent two weeks in the Miami area clearing roads, putting up tent cities and whatever was needed. The battalions headquarters company was out of Miami and a lot of politics ensued to get us down there.