The title of this blog is a bit of a fun. Going Long is the stock market term for things you think will still be standing at the end of the year. If i was going short on anything (meaning the market says it just won't work) it would be our gov plan to what... wage war on the world?
So me? I am hunkered down and planning my garden for the year. I have my veggie seeds ready to start in my little hillbilly greenhouse and i have a garden plan in containers to go along with my fruit trees in container plan. I AM long on seeds, a wheel hoe, gravity irrigation from a solar well (with a hand pump in a pinch but AMAZING find... this ranch has a ton of cisterns)....
Allow me to digress... Our Cali foothills ranch is an original.. as in it was a ranch before California became a state... then it was a cattle station, then a hay farm during the gold rush (which means it had water ... something not everyplace in California has). But the old farmers who build our adobe and stone walls knew that sometimes the rains didn't come....California has a long history of epic drought.... so there are huge cisterns under the barns, houses and tucked in around the gardens.... who knew? We have been on this ranch about 2 years and once we figured out they were there we started looking. Where are they? How does the water get into them? BETTER YET... how do we get the water out...?
Lucky for us the main garden here is below a huge 10,000 gallon cistern someone in the past was nice enough to put in using stone and cement underground.....
So i am all set... This year I am growing in pots using super soil since our native soil is hard pack clay. Over time we will build a few swales and get a little more natural permaculture garden going but this year our eating garden is container oriented and watered by the old cisterns.
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| The general plan of the container garden |
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| We are just getting started |
We have lemons, avocados, Sumatra mandarins, dwarf peaches, native plums, figs and wild grapes and raspberries to start. Our goal..? A food forest we don't have to do a lot of work to maintain. '
Go PLANT A GARDEN...
SURVIVAL CHIC....
