Kick the Grocery Store Goodbye: Three Years to Food Self Sufficiency (Self Sufficient Living Book 1) by ame vanorio

Author:ame vanorio
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Ame Vanorio
Published: 2016-02-08T07:00:00+00:00

This would allow you to spend:

$250 on perennial fruits, nuts, and vegetables

$80 seeds

$15 seed starter mix

$20 garden amendments such as fish emulsion and lime

An extra .50 per day would give you another $185.50 per year. Enough to buy some fencing materials or lumber for raised beds.

If you feel confident and want to grow more for canning/freezing than increase your annual production by adding two more raised beds. Here you will grow extra tomatoes, peppers, beans, and cucumbers for preserving.

This season build a small greenhouse for season extension and plant propagation. Greenhouses can be built very economically. A greenhouse will pay for itself over and over. A small 8x8 starter greenhouse can be built for about $200. You can save money by using conventional plastic and used lumber.

Look for used frames or hoops on Craigslist. My hoops were given to me by an out of business tobacco farmer. I purchased new lumber for the frame, found a door on Craigslist, and purchased greenhouse plastic. My neighbor gave me some old oak barn beams which I used to make raised beds. Total price $500.

My green house is 15x20 with two raised beds 3x20 run along the length. The middle has shelves for seed flats, a small work table, and an area to grow micro greens. My greenhouse provides fresh produce from March – December. In the cooler months I grow greens, peas, and root crops in the raised beds. In the summer I place a couple tomatoes, peppers and several eggplants in the beds for season extension in the fall. The eggplants in particular thrive in the greenhouse. I have a real battle with flea beetles and they are fewer and easier to battle in the greenhouse. I also have a small herb patch with chives, sage, rosemary, and oregano for winter seasoning. In late fall, usually October, I plant beets, carrots and spinach seeds in the greenhouse beds. I cover the seed bed areas with straw to protect them from extreme cold. They will grow slightly in warm spells during the winter. In March with increasingly longer days they jump forward to provide us with fresh food.

The internet has many plans to build greenhouses. Many people use discarded screen doors and windows – although care must be taken to have them similar size so they can be framed in tightly without gaps. You can also buy inexpensive kits but beware of buying something so light it topples over in the wind. All greenhouses should be securely anchored in the ground!

Location is important for a green house. Obviously it should be in an area that receives full sun. Care should be taken to not put it in an area of excessive wind. I have a friend who put up a green house on a ridge by her garden and the plastic was blown off twice by the wind.

Below you can see a picture of my greenhouse in progress and the final product. The hoops were secured into the ground and bolted to the 6x6 timbers.

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