I have 6 aerogardens that I use for growing select herbs inside during the winter - they also help my SAD as I have them set generally to 16 hours on 8 hours off and they are fairly complete spectrum. I experimented with growing romaine in one and while it worked, they were touchy as they really need more of a root…

We did bale of straw - was easy to 'dig' them, and we have really heavy clay soil and wanted to rot it into compost to turn in to loosen it up. Didn't work so well for garlic though, at least we also planted half the garlic over near our lilacs so it wasn't a total loss.

No blog, and I started gardening as soon as I could toddle around pulling weeds [and non-weeds, to my moms agitation] 'helping' my mom. I started being more interested in heirloom fruits and vegetables around 30 years ago when I got more interested in food and cooking as part of my historical research for my…

Thanks =)

Not yet, I was supposed to check in for something but our roomie broke her leg 2 weeks ago so I postponed until winter. I am *not* having 2 people unable to do stuff for themselves at the same time in the house, my husband would probably be driven to commit murder [Dear can you please make breakfast and lunch for both…

Dudette. And there wasn't last time I was admitted 4 years ago =)

Hm, something to think about - but if you never tried new stuff life would get boring =) I buy from a seed supplier instead of trying to grow from food items, as you said, they may have been treated with something.

With trade many have gotten accustomed to the more western wheat styled diet. I do agree that potatoes are excellent producers for the space they require - it was said that an acre of potatoes would feed an average family pre-potato famine in Ireland. I like growing different potatoes [this past year we did a purple…

I haven't seen a Cracker Barrel since we lived in Norfolk VA [Husband was a submariner] though I will agree with you about their food. I seriously miss really good sausage gravy and biscuits.

Ask, and I will try to answer ... though it is nice having the choice of Popeyes vs KFC in Connecticut now. Extra spicy is nice as bland fried chicken can get boring.

Well, if the morons who buy up farmland and chop orchards down to put in housing complexes would fucking stop it, we might still be the 'breadbasket' of the US. Western NY and many areas of New England used to produce an excess of fruit and nuts [not to mention all the olive and orange groves in California that now…

You can't "backyard" much in the way of grain, and other than some modern hybrids, the 2 grains that grow the best in short/cold are barley and buckwheat. You can get 65 bushels of winter wheat per acre, 88 bushels of barley, and 25 bushels of buckwheat. In the US [except for the idiots who do not have celiac disease…

Perhaps. And a large helping of the *Evil West* trying to keep us poor and hungry. Same shit, different century.

I honestly have no idea. He seems to want to bring back the old USSR with himself as the power behind the throne. I personally think that so many people seem to remember the old CCCP with fondness because everybody had jobs, housing and [supposedly] food all provided by the government. I know a few East Germans that…

Oddly enough, Yale - New Haven Hospital patient food services makes some of the best damned fried chicken I have ever had. Their food is seriously good - worlds better than any other hospital food I can remember being fed. You can even get butter, sugar, *spices* ... they really learned that if patients can look…

What was the old SovUnion joke - There is no News in the Truth, and no Truth in the News .... [the 2 leading newspapers in the USSR were Pravda [Truth] and Izvestiya [News] ]

First thing that popped into my mind was a rehash of all the failed 5 year plans, the winter famines, the whole Soviet era posturing. I guess I am too much a child of the Cold War to really forget all of them.

I played MMRPGs and started with Everquest 1. You had to pick a binding spot, where you popped alive *naked and unarmed* and you had to run back to wherever you died to get your stuff. And when you died, you lost XP ... someone in my guild bound next to where a guard he did not have rep with normally stood, fell…

Female, born in 1961, brother born in 1959. When school was out, or it was a weekend we were fed breakfast and kicked out to go play and told to come home when it was getting dark. I was walking to kindergarden at the age of 5 unaccompanied. A random pack of us kids bombed around together with no supervision, grazing…

My husband and I don't fight with each other, we go online and play MMORPGs and kill other people. The family that slays together, stays together.