Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 04, 2023

Pluggers don’t pay more for weed from dispensaries. They grow their own.

Yes!

I wonder how many of these booths at the local farmers’ market just buy the produce at a supermarket, jack up the price, and sell it at their booth, claiming that they grew it at their local family farm? What caused my suspicion was that one of the booths had bananas for sale. I don’t think bananas grow too well here in Indiana.

I have my plants in the cold frame right now. It’s still too cold to transplant them.

Onions , Potatoes and Radishes are in the ground . Waiting for the weather to break to do more planting . We are just finishing up a late cold snap in my area . Not record breaking cold for Western PA. but it’s still cold ;-)

Plugger’s lose their ring fingers in thresher accidents.

Hmmm. Interesting observation by Southern Indiana Guy.

It’s way too early for farm fresh up here in The Great White North; but while turning over the garden, I found some carrots that we missed last fall; and most of them were still crunchy and flavourful.

Spring has actually arrived in southwest Wyoming. We’re we hoping to have a decent summer and have a productive garden this year. last several have really sucked due to cold springs, late freezes, and early fall weather.

You mean like folks who buy from Walmart and Costco and then re-sell on Amazon? A vitamin supplement I used to purchase from Costco was “reformulated” to now have 5000 IU of D3 (vs. originally 2000 IU). Since I already take another supplement with 500 IU of D3, this pushes it way over the 5000 IU daily max anyone should be taking. I saw the “original” formulation version on Amazon and decided to purchase it. When I received it, it was not only the “new and improved” formulation, it came from Costco! I contacted the vendor lambasting them that I wanted what was pictured (not the new formulation) and if I had wanted to buy it from Costco, I would have done so myself!

Always aske the farmer at the market… "Oh, where is your farm? Wait for a quick response, or a pregnant pause before coming up with a location.

The local Saturday market had a couple booths with tomatoes. Our tomato plants have just started flowering and they were started back in January.

My best investment ever: two 8 oz cans of beans. Bush now $1.69 and Van Camps $1.15 up about 75 percent from three years ago. Sitting on my desk with can of Sterno just in case.

Pluggers with “brown thumbs” still get their produce from the supermarket.

We’ve tried growing our own, but all we succeeded in doing was feeding every rabbit, squirrel and raccoon in a three county area. All the habanero peppers each had one bite taken out, they must have thought maybe the next one would taste better.

My mom always laughed at the fuss and expense and hyped advertising of organic food, remembering when she was a kid and all the farming they did was naturally and unavoidably organic — manure for fertilizer…

Our problem with growing our own which we had looked forward to doing when we bought our house was that his vacation was when most of the produce was coming in. His parents ended up with a lot of produce as his dad would pick what was ripe while checking for our mail while we were away.

We grew stuff for a couple of years after his dad died – but it would mostly go rotten while we were away so we stopped growing.