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Pastimes : Pastrami on Rye
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To: zeta1961 who wrote (170)9/2/2007 3:40:20 PM
From: Mike McFarland  Read Replies (1) of 379
 
We put in a few patches of seed--a little patch of spinach
gave salad greens for a week or two, two packets of carrot
seed didn't generate more than a pound or two of tiny stunted
carrots. The sugar snap seed might have paid for itself--
fresh sugar snaps are about the only raw vegetable the kids
will eat after carrots.

In Wenatchee, we had water from an irrigation canal--it still
had to be pumped up the hill, but there was a pumphouse coop.
But over there, everything bolted and did poorly after
about mid June--although I seem to remember getting a lot
of spinach and lettuce til that first 90 degree day. The
water in our location was intended for peach and apricot
orchards. I did get a dozen boxes of tomatoes which were
fantastic.

Here in the suburbs of Seattle municipal governments make
a lot of money selling water along with pricy sewer fees.
Use alot of water, and you'll pay extra for sewer.

And a quarter acre lot can be assessed for as much as $200k.
So there are several economic disincentives to growing
food crops. If you have a flat quarter acre, you're going
to sell it--not grow anything on it. We have a large lot,
but it is mostly unusable. I could cut down a dozen big
leaf maples and destroy the greenspace we own, but I'm
not going to do that. If my lot were flat, and plantable,
well it would be buildable...
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