I have tomatoes that are sooooo close to being ripe, it’s hard not to pick them early! My runner beans are starting to get fat enough that I’m leaving them for seed (which was the main reason for planting them, I needed to expand my seed supply.) My potatoes have needed hilling for about a month now, but all the lawn clippings I was promised for mulch are getting thrown out instead. When I can stand for more than 2 minutes, I’ll start looking for alternatives around the yard. There’s a maple tree growing through the fence that I can take all the leaves I want off of, that might work.
I sort-of got permission to raise rabbits in the back yard. Dad was talking in baby-talk again, which means he didn’t think I was serious or else that I’m not capable of such a thing. He does that a lot. But I’m going to anyway, and mom is backing me up! As soon as I heal enough to build a cage for them. I’m thinking bunny-tractor, just because it would be easiest to clean. I’m using my recovery time to study rabbit nutrition and dispatching techniques, which were kind of ignored by the rabbit-raising books I have. (On nutrition, the books refused to acknowledge anything other than commercial pellets. One author even said he wouldn’t sell to anyone who planned to raise all their own rabbit food. Fortunately, there are other resources.)
Oh, I should mention that the rabbits I raise will, of course, have nothing to do with the ones currently breeding in my front garden, which I now have permission to live-trap. Even if they do turn out to look exactly the same...
Did some calculations, and it might be easier to make a living off my plant-breeding than I thought, assuming my crosses are successful and I get them stabilized soon. Especially with seed prices climbing the way they are. A few years ago, you could get a packet of 100 tomato seeds for $0.95. Now it’s a packet of 25 seeds for $2 or more.
The tomato plants that you buy from walmart etc are also very expensive compared to what they used to be. You could probably sell them at the farmers market, when/if you have room to start them.
Check out Burpee if you want to see high prices. $6.50 for 15 seeds and $5.95 for 10 seeds. That’s ridiculous. Larger tomato transplants at the grocery store here were $10 back in the Spring.