Fuckin’ grows out of the ground!
Who’s a jammy bastard?
Wait until they find out about chickens!
Submitted 5 weeks ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
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tanisnikana@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Eggs come out their fuckin’ arses!
MycelialMass@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Growing garlic is more than just planting it. You have to keep trimming it so the additional cloves will form. After harvesting, you need to hang it in an airy dry place to cure for about two weeks. This allows the allicin to concentrate and the papery protective skin to form around the bulb. All this to say, you’re probably better off buying garlic, as it is cheap, and growing something else.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Green onions are super, super easy to grow.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
For sure. A good place to start is a “salsa garden.” Tomatoes, onions, and jalapeños (or another pepper). Super easy, tasty, and versatile.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And mint. In fact, getting mint to stop growing is a bigger problem. My grandmother grew mint in her garden in a kitchen sink she buried in the ground so it wouldn’t escape.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Chives grow like weeds and whenever you need some just go out in the yard with scissors and give them a haircut. They grow back in a week or two, unless they’re under a foot or two of snow 6 months of the year. Which is where my farming desires end.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Big garlic already out here trying to shutdown the infinite garlic hack! OP hates this one simple trick!
anti_antidote@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
You only have to cut the scapes once per season (and it doesn’t cause additional cloves to form, it just makes the existing ones bigger since it’s not putting energy into trying to flower). Growing hard neck garlic is easy and you get awesome garlic out of it, way better than lame ass grocery store soft neck garlic with a million cloves the size of a grain of sand (obvious hyperbole but still). Plus garlic scapes are delicious stir fried.
silasmariner@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Now you’re cooking with garlic 👌
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Sadly there absolutely are people that think food is just made and appears at the grocery store.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Heard this argument a few weeks ago which stunned me. This woman was being interviewed about her thoughts regarding nearby farm land being used to build new homes. She retorted along the lines of: “I don’t see why we need all this farm land anyway, you can buy your food from the store!”
I died a little hearing that.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Exactly. A lot of people are completely ignorant about how the world works. They just expect everything to function, without any idea of how or why. Full blown adults.
It’s disheartening.
sundray@lemmus.org 5 weeks ago
Growing up in a rural area, my school basically taught us that farmers were basically god.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
It is a frightening realization that our world hinges on a very thin tether of human cooperation that allows us to create a civilization where food is delivered daily to everyone everywhere all the time.
As soon as that system is disrupted, or destroyed … people automatically start starving.
If something terrible happens right now and transportation stops … there is only enough fresh food in any town for 24 hours … 72 hours to empty them all of everything else that is edible. What most people don’t realize is that modern grocery stores are stocked just for a day or two with the expectation that deliveries will happen on a daily basis. So grocery stores don’t have any extra once supplies are gone. They don’t have surplus in the back to restock everything. Even as it all starts, we will probably start fighting, murdering one another for food supplies once we realize no more is coming.
It’s really hard to build a civilization from nothing … but it’s far too easy to take a civilization down.
“From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.” - Will Durant
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
It’s actually worse than that. Starvation takes a long time to happen (~3 weeks). Lack of access to water takes a much shorter period of time. If water pipelines and/or pumping facilities get screwed up in any way, cities will become mad max much faster and in a much more intense fashion. In a water-starved population, people are mostly composed of water…
sundray@lemmus.org 5 weeks ago
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” To this day, especially in times of “disaster,” I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.
- Fred Rogers
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
TBF, Plants are Literally an Infinite Food Hack and Life of any kind is the rarest resource in the universe, Maybe we should be ashamed at ourselves for not recognizing daily miracles.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 weeks ago
Ancient Mesopotamians: “Never buy food at the market again with this one weird trick!”
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Actual food hack: Save vegetable trimmings in a bag in the freezer. Onion skins, carrot peelings, celery bits, broccoli stems, etc. When it’s full, put them in a pot and cover with water and cook at medium heat for a couple hours to make free vegetable broth.
shneancy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
broccoli stems are yummy though
idunnololz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You still have to peel them right with like a peeler? Otherwise the skin can be tough.
someguy3@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Put all your bones in a freezer bag and make bone broth. Free protein.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Yeah but then you get a shit queue placement in your next reincarnation.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ve been doing that for years but I never thought to use vegetable waste. Plus I can make the most amazing vegan spaghetti sauce with it.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I remember reading some kind of tip, maybe making a sauce out of onion and garlic skin, but in any case, is there any concern with mold or food safety with this method? There was some talk of it with whatever I read.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
If you’re freezing it all, no. It could get freezer burned but that just makes it taste off it should still be safe to eat. If you keep stuff in the fridge not freezer, or you let things sit on the counter too long between each processing step, it could go bad. That’s just general food safety though not just a trimmings thing
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They go straight into the freezer, and are then boiled for a while, and then frozen and then boiled again.
tl;dr I haven’t had a problem, but you should probably wash them first
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
i love it, but the “bag” to which you refer, is a plastic bag. the freezer? that you bought at a big box store? or say you bought second hand? that all requires massive amounts of infrastructure. Massive amounts of power. Massive engineering projects to bring you that power.
you’re not a hippy just because you store veggies in the freezer.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s not more efficient. I’m just cheap.
sergioknight@monyet.cc 5 weeks ago
waters ((Hacker voice)): Enhance
cheezoid2@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
realitista@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Came here to post this (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Came here to post this. Watch this for 50th time. Up vote it. Watch it again.
superkret@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
With current wages and prices, life as a medieval peasant doesn’t look so bad in comparison.
Imagine: fruit and veggies that actually still taste like the real thing, literally half the year off, and no mobile ads.fl42v@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
If a hacker planted [your] random seed, you’re in deep trouble, generally
Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I’ve got root.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ehh, I don’t have time to wait around for garlic. I do however plant spring onions from the grocer in my kitchen. They grow faster than I can eat them and come back quickly with a substantial amount of neglect.
HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I killed my cilantro & parsley doing that in my herb garden with organic green onions. And I’m completely fine with that.
It’s about the only time I’ll prioritize organic produce over regular produce, those damn onions are delicious!
ATDA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There’s also a seed that can spawn a talented musician that will take care of you when you’re old.
But probably not.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That seed more often spawns a low-paid service industry worker who calls you once a year on your birthday.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There’s this Youtuber that appears on my feed and it’s like he’s just discovering that seeds and parts of fruits and vegetables grow more fruits and vegetables when put in dirt.
konalt@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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