tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post7807564738695992403..comments2024-03-13T07:34:24.149+00:00Comments on The Age of Uncertainty: Self-sufficiencySteerforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-26132095958998522822008-04-27T01:25:00.000+00:002008-04-27T01:25:00.000+00:00As an Australian, I was always intrigued by the id...As an Australian, I was always intrigued by the idea of allotments. Here people <I>used</I> to just have big backyards they grew food in, though now they're all being subdivided to fit 3 houses on one block, with no room for gardens. It seemed odd to be able to trust people to not mess with your growings when they're not just outside your house for you to keep an eye on them. <BR/><BR/>My wife and I would love to start growing our own vegetables (we do still have a backyard), but Adelaide's in an ongoing many-year drought with heavy water restrictions, so it seems a bad time to start.JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-90241701804484516782008-04-24T11:29:00.000+00:002008-04-24T11:29:00.000+00:00Well Mrs Self and I are taking our first tentative...Well Mrs Self and I are taking our first tentative steps into growing our own, in a very minor way. Pots, tomato plants, courgette seeds and free carrot seeds we got with a Boden catalogue...<BR/><BR/>We put the tomato plants out last Tuesday and when we got up on Wednesday three of them were dead. It didn't say on the box that it was too cold to put them out in April...John Selfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05761816149593541133noreply@blogger.com