Just one more reason you should grow most of your own veggies at home.
Via KWG.com:
Get ready to pay double or even triple the price for fresh produce in the coming weeks after the worst freeze in 60 years damaged and wiped out entire crops in northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S.
The problem started less than a week ago, when our nation was focusing on the Superbowl and sheets of ice falling from Texas Stadium.
Farmers throughout northern Mexico and the Southwest experienced unprecedented crop losses. Now devastation that seemed so far away, is hitting us in the pocketbooks.
“We’ve had to double and triple some prices and consumers come in and it’s quite a shock to them,” said Rusty Peake, GM of Food4Less in Southeast Portland.
“Increase, increase, increase,” said produce manager Troy Winterhalter as he watched urgent messages coming across his laptop computer. “Peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, asparagus, the entire asparagus crop was wiped out,” said Winterhalter.
We had a fantastic garden at our last house that provided more fresh veges than my lovely wife and I could consume on our own. We have yet to plant a garden in our new home, but that is on my to-do list this spring. Leafy greens (kale, spinach, and lettuce, and cabbage), tomatoes, squashes, peppers, okra, and herbs will be the primary crops for us.
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GM employees should be able to buy these veggies now with the bonus they got thanks to the taxpayers…..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110214/ap_on_re_us/us_general_motors_bonuses
They won’t be eatng gubmint cheese, that’s fo’ damn sho’.
Unlike its former shareholders.
And the dems starve the San joaquin valley for water in the name of a bait fish.
Yeah…I’m planning on growing my own in containers this year..including what is called “garbage can potatoes”
Potatoes grown in a 30gal garbage can. Just dump it out when they’re ready to be picked and pull them out of the mess…then you can use the dirt they were in for your flower garden.