Obama Rations
November 14th, 2008Hocks and Greens Age Better Than Sophia Loren
It looks like I am going to have to spray my peppers and fruit trees with copper about once a week in order to keep them alive. The fungus down here is as persistent and unreasonable as Bush Derangement Syndrome. I applied copper today, as well as a foliar mineral spray for the citrus. I fertilized the fruit trees, too. Now I have to go buy iron.
What do you eat when you work like a farmer? Farm food, i.e. leftover ham hocks and cornbread! I nuked a hock and a pile of collards, and I followed up with the cornbread, and I buttered the bread, sliced the second half of yesterday’s tomato, added more Vidalia slices, and I was in business. Well, okay, I was in business after I also poured myself an Inca Kola.
Miami has to be the world epicenter of weird foreign soft drink importation.
The things that happen to ham hocks and greens after a day in the fridge are marvelous. All the flavors mingle and intensify. I didn’t even need Texas Pete when I ate the fat off the hock.
I guess I’ll be ready if it turns out a socialist President can’t revive our socialism-ravaged economy with more socialism. I can eat for three days on twenty bucks.
November 14th, 2008 at 5:53 PM
That Inca Kola is some strange stuff.
Not strange bad but strange nonetheless.
November 14th, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Assuming you still have $20 and the store has food to sell.
November 14th, 2008 at 7:57 PM
My own goal is $5 a day. Sometime I get close on a
monthly average, but I’m not seriously trying.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:47 PM
If you are going to buy iron for your plants, go to a real nursery or to Atlantic FEC Fertalizer. Most of the iron sold in big box stores doesn’t work well in South Florida. The brands that do work well are Sequestrene and Ferriplus.
It’s a good time to go down to Homestead. The early veggies should be available. The Amish bakery opened this week also. The strawberrys won’t be ready for a month or so.
Go early, Atlantic FEC closes at 11:30 on Saturdays.
The Fruit and Spice park isn’t far from Atlantic FEC.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:26 AM
And once you start growing cowpeas, okra, sweet potatoes, and so forth, you can get Costco beef and still make your average work. Have you tried growing sweet potatoes where you are?