Planting Onions for the End Times (and other veggies you can store)

Planting Onions for the End Times (and other veggies you can store)

Posted inGardening, Random Musings
When the nearby strip malls and shopping plazas are in flames, rioters tearing one another's hair out and stomping one another to death in the blood-and-covid19-soaked parking lot, my onions will be just about ready to harvest. Onions are easy to plant and grow, and depending on your growing zone, now is the time to plant. You want to aim for early spring, when the soil is no longer frozen and can be easily worked. We're talking a solid six weeks or so before you're plant your tomatoes and peppers, give or take. Onions require a pretty long growing season,…
Gardening at the End of the World

Gardening at the End of the World

Posted inGardening, Random Musings
Since fully immersing myself into the gardening hobby -- some would say obsession -- my primary focus has always been on growing food. Growing lots of stuff to eat. Producing. Not from any kind of necessity, but because good production is a nice, tangible result of your efforts. All that food, those jars of pickles, those hot sauces you share, the jars of salsa that are 17x better than store bought, all of that stuff is something you can see and touch and enjoy. To me, it's not much different than recording music at home or writing or painting. When…