Postage Stamp Homesteading
Early in 2020 we had pretty much decided that since we were renters that we were not going to go to the trouble of doing any kind of vegetable garden. About the time we decided that, SHTF in the world and with the future very unknown, we quickly switched gears and started planning a vegetable garden. The landlord graciously agreed to let us use the overgrown field by the house and agreed to till it up for us (when I say overgrown, I mean overgrown!). I quickly went about reading everything I could about gardening and companion planting and more! Ordering seeds and plotting out the garden layout. I attempted to start seeds, but because they were still outside in the late winter/early spring temperatures, the seed starts didn’t do so well. Fast forward to Mother’s Day weekend….a late spring FROST/FREEZE! I frantically went about covering all my flowers and bushes with sheets and towels and buckets to protect them (the garden was not in yet!), brought in the ones I could and prayed the rest survived. They did – I don’t think I lost any plants during that freeze!