Stocking up for the fall/winter

[Tammy]

I think the problem here is that IrisLilies is trying to offload produce that is in the realm of her husband’s activities. He’s the bad guy. 😄

[happystuff]

I think the problem here is that IrisLilies is trying to offload produce that is in the realm of her husband’s activities. He’s the bad guy. ��

Based on the end results, there are no "bad guys". Food was not purposely/intentionally wasted and - more importantly - people who needed food, got it. I call that a pretty good win.

[iris lilies]

We have no idea if this the zucchini is actually eaten. I think it odd and frankly silly, the general obsession people have with food products. It’s the same obsession the Iris society has with iris rhizomes. Same with books. They all reproduce like rabbits.

I set boundaries on how much of my own time I spent fussing with these things.

My values say there’s nothing wrong with sending iris rhizomes and zucchini and cucumber and squash and whatever back into the compost bin. Books are harder to get rid of and I’m facing the disposal of 600 to 800 bucks in the next 12 months. That is a different conversation.

Anyone who reads my posts over the years know that I make a really good effort to share and give away iris rhizomes that are as big and showy as anything Mid America Gardens sells for $10 each. But I do it on my schedule because my time has value.

[catherine]

My values said if there’s nothing wrong with sending iris rhizomes and zucchini and cucumber and squash and whatever back into the compost bin. Books are harder to get rid of and I’m facing the disposal of 600 to 800 bucks in the next 12 months. That is a different conversation.

Anyone who reads my post over the years know that I make a really good effort to share and give away iris rhizomes that are as big and showy as anything Mid America Gardens sells for $10 each. But I do it on my schedule because my time has value.

I agree that turning unused food into the compost heap is not a bad option. Far better than the huge amounts of food that gets turned into black plastic bags and thrown into the landfill.

On the same subject, but not meant to shame IL for her horticultural abundance, interestingly FOOD WASTE is one of the biggest targets for reducing CO2 emissions/addressing climate change, according to Project Drawdown.

https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/reduced-food-waste

[ConnieVarricchio]

Where there are gardens there is excess - and this is a good thing. It does take time and effort to create these goodies and Nothing is ever really wasted - unless as someone stated it ends up in a plastic bag somewhere. Does anyone find anything wrong with driving the excess down a country road and distributing it on a bank somewhere? Or in a field? What are your thoughts on this practice? I havent needed to do that as I get my veggies and such from my dad. He grows the garden and he always has extra so there is no need for me to grow one. He would have one less person to give his excess to if i grew my own. Back when i was a kid, we had a 50 acre farm and we would take the extra and feed it to the chickens, ducks, whatever we had at the time and if there was any left over we took it to the edge of the swamp and distributed it thinking we were helping the animals should they be hungry and if not, it would compost back to the earth from whence it came. Sounds like a good practice to me. The worms probably really appreciated it.

[furrfox]

I've finally didn't forget to buy heated waterer for chickens. It will come handy in the winter.

[NewGig]

We have started the transition to winter. Part of that is baking supplies. We do NOT bake bread in summer; we buy it instead. But from roughly Sept 1 to May 15, we bake our own. We have enough flour to last for a couple of weeks, but beyond that, no. Years gone by, this wasn't an issue. I may have to change what I do.

I am seriously thinking about buying a large quantity of "stew" vegetables this year, so I don't have to go out, whether there's a shortage, or not. I dismantled the two "root cellar" boxes I had last year, they only sort of worked, and that's been true since I started that, 3 years ago or so. No root cellar boxes this year I don't think, but I don't have an alternative, except frozen food...

We used up the back stock canned goods, soaps, shelf-stable pantry goods, paper products, etc. in lockdown. I have enough for right now. How much to buy ahead is a question I haven't really decided.

[Tradd]

Ran to Target at lunch to get some stuff. I’d not been inside a Target or Walmart for at least a month. No paper towels to be had. TP was limited to one pack per customer. I got a big 20 roll pack and that’s it for me. Got some Tide, garbage bags, microfiber cleaning cloths to extend my paper towel supply, Dawn, bleach (use it on bathtub area grout for mold), and two gallons of vinegar. Got another spray bottle to use with vinegar/water for glass cleaning. I’ve not seen Windex in months.

[Tybee]

We have been buying tp one roll at a time at Menards for 49 cents. It's satisfying to just grab a few rolls whenever we are there.

Bought some soap yesterday. I find I want to stock up less, rather than more, since it unnerved me to stock up so extensively during the pandemic. I was happy that we used it all up.

[iris lilies]

In the continuing saga of excess garden produce, I carefully dug, Trimmed, labeled, bagged, and transported 25 iris rhizomes from Hermann to the city. A random person who contacted our iris Society thru Facebook was heartbroken our Iris Society was not holding our annual sale this year due to Covid, so I felt sorry for her and agreed to give her some of my extras.

I always have iris rhizomes to give away, but the different thing about this deal is that I dont track varieties or bag them,
i usually just put them in a pile and say on
nextdoor “come and get them.” This took my time. I don’t like spending much of my time on Spare rhizomes, but I value them more than zucchini so there ya go.



As I stated above, I do not want to communicate with these people excessively because they annoy me, so I prepared a bucket with her name on it, put it on my front porch. She works, as it turns out, less than 1 mile from my city house. Yeah, that was Saturday afternoon.tick tick tick...Sunday...tick tick tick...Monday...Rhizomes still sitting on my front porch.

so this chick is getting $150 worth of named varieties for free. And she can’t be bothered to pick them up.


This happened with grapes – I had grapes to give away somebody said he would come and get them. He never came. Same thing with chairs in my house – someone advertiseD for this kind of chair, she was excited and said she would come. She did not come. That was two weeks ago. Tried to give away cake pans – the person who said he would come and get them never did.


These people are very annoying.