Growing Food

Hail, fellow metal devourer of delicious produce! Here's some good links for you to raise your Clenched Fist at:

Art of Manliness 7 Reasons to Become A Gentleman Gardener

When ya need some brutal recipes for cooking them goodies up, get this in:

The Heavy Metal Cookbook

Just in case you find yourself forced to cook for some limp wristed, spaghetti armed vegan, bleh! (looking at you, heiding! I see you 'heiding' there ;)). If you can resist adding them (I don't recommend this, I've heard vegan flesh is pretty bland) to your Unholy Pasta Sauce of Doom then this should help you out:

Vegan Black Metal Chef!

Don't forget - veggies love metal! A bit of Iron Maiden's Number of The Beast album in it's entirety and you're golden. Also, Aces High. Oh, don't forget Rime of The Ancient Mariner!
 
kathryn d said:
I've heard you can do the same with spring/green onions.(like celery)
or plant straight into the ground...as long as they have the roots
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Yes, you're right - many of our leeks came this way. (Again I forget, because we have about the 5th generation from self seeding!)

The Y-man
 
Started a spreadsheet on the chooks 6 months ago and now our totally organic delicious nutritious eggs cost us $2.10/doz. the spreadsheet is now in the trash folder.
Labour to clean out shed once in awhile is free on weekends, it only takes a few minutes and it all goes straight into the compost heap to grow the veggies, also labour free on weekends.

So Tobe, do you work every day making $$, or sit around weekends doing nothing?

I'd rather be doing something out in the sun getting back to earthly being.
 
The Fence said:
Started a spreadsheet on the chooks 6 months ago and now our totally organic delicious nutritious eggs cost us $2.10/doz. the spreadsheet is now in the trash folder.
Labour to clean out shed once in awhile is free on weekends, it only takes a few minutes and it all goes straight into the compost heap to grow the veggies, also labour free on weekends.

So Tobe, do you work every day making $$, or sit around weekends doing nothing?

I'd rather be doing something out in the sun getting back to earthly being.
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LOL, I dont sit around doing spreadsheets, but Im very cognisant of the political leanings of many on this site. When the OP referred to cheapness in the original post, I was just making sure he didnt mean that in the purely ecomonic rationalist sense. Cause by those definitions it aint cheap to grow your own. You know, each specialist should do what he is best at, economies of scale etc.

Currently that wilted bunch of parsley for $2, (that might or might not be at your local supermarket) isnt costed by the sudsidised diesel the farmer uses, the water and fertiliser, the reduced tax rates and land taxes for primary producers, the basic wage the pickers, packers, truck drivers and check out chicks get etc etc blah blah blah

I personally account for all of these inputs, and its cheaper for me to grow at home.

But mostly I just cant be ar$ed getting in the car, finding a park and jostling with the crowds at the supermarket just to find they havent got any bloody fresh parsel anyway, and want me to buy something in a tube!!
 
Some great ideas in this thread. But yes growing your own food is generally not an economic decision. It is however deeply satisfying growing your own food, even just growing a few herbs can be great for the soul.
Some easier herbs include - rosemary, thyme, parsley, chives, mint, sage and oregano.
In terms of vegies - leeks, onions, tomato, zucchini, beans beetroot and silverbeet are all generally easy (tomato being slightly needy)

An idea that I commonly use when designing gardens is incorporating edible fruit trees into the garden in an aesthetically pleasing way. There are plenty of fruiting trees that make great and attractive hedging plants - all citrus, apples, pears, apricots, plums, figs and even avocados make great hedging plants. A little yearly pruning to keep them in shape is about the only maintenance needed. Attractive and productive! Brilliant.
 
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