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  • From: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Surging costs of groceries hit home
  • Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:34:24 -0500

Especially since we primarily talk no-till.  You gotta dig out all the roots every year.
 
OTOH, I have 10 gal. from 100 sq ft after the first year for that bed, and I don't know how I can store them.
 
E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz
----- Original Message -----
From: Aliza
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Surging costs of groceries hit home

Jerusalems are delicious! - but they can totally take over your garden.
Plant them somewhere that you will want them to be permenantely.  They are
persistant!

Aliza
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liz" <liz@allslash.org>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
<livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Surging costs of groceries hit home


> At 10:14 PM 3/10/2008, you wrote:
>
>>er... how much time DO you spend in convenience stores? BTW today we spied
>>on a new China-Mart in town and we were stunned at the prices. WAY UP.
>
> Yep, no longer the cheapest place to shop, if they ever were.
>
> I inspect grocery stores for a living, and spend most of my time in
> convenience stores. The big chain supermarkets have in-house
> compliance staff, so they don't get inspected as often. The little
> Mom-and-Pop gas station/convenience stores are the ones I see the
> most often. Depressing, as far as actual food is concerned, but they
> are often the only stores that the poor or elderly have easy access to.
>
>
>>On another personal note, I rarely eat any kind of bread but eat potatoes
>>fixed various ways, all delicious. Bread is going up, but potatoes hardly.
>>And we're about to plant some fingerlings that don't even need peeling.
>>They'll bring three times the regular potato price at market.
>
> Have you tried Jerusalem Artichokes? I used to grow those in Florida,
> and just ordered some tubers. I had meant to plant them again here a
> long time ago, but my job was taking so much time that I kept putting
> things off. Now I'm trying to cut back on work so I can spend more
> time on my garden.
>
> If I didn't buy grain and grind it myself, I wouldn't want to eat
> bread either! But I know what goes into mine.
>
> Liz in SW VA
> http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com
>
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