Re: Re: Murphy's Law
  By: Rob Mccart to ARELOR on Wed Apr 30 2025 12:45 am

 > We started off talking about gardens though and the other thing about
 > that, especially here where we probably have shorter and harsher
 > seasons than you do there, is that you do 3 or 4 months of work before
 > most of it is ready to eat, and then most of it gets picked fairly
 > quickly and you get 2 or 3 weeks of fresh meals while you figure out
 > some way to make the rest of your garden produce keep until you can
 > use it, so we're back to canned foods for lack of a better term for
 > most of that produce..

The length of harvesting seasons varies greatly among regions. A couple miles up
North from here they have to do all their growing and harvesting in about 2
months because the rest of the year they get too harsh a climate.

With the use of greenhouses I can plant stuff in autumn and pick it up next
spring. We actually get some hail storms in march or april but greenhoused stuff
does not care for such things.

If I got really serious about seasonal phasing I could produce all year round
except in deep winter. The problem is that by the end of novembre I already have
so much stockpiled food it is not really worth it and, besides, I need to do
some actual job that pays $$$ plus take care of the horses and the rest of the
house. Lots of vegetables come in sub-varieties so you could pick summer wonder
lettuce a day and still have oak leaf lettuce growing in the ground. Similar
with cabbagge.

My only problem is I tend to maximize growing things that I know grow well on my
land, and then exploit those varieties to death. I am not going to plant 20
tomato plants and 20 carrots if I know tomatoes give me a better yield: I'd
rather plant 40 tomato plants. And then try to figure out a way to disguise the
fact I am gonna be eating tomatoes all year around XD


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