digitS'
Garden Master
@TEG Project Manager , has a question about this in the forum. It's a very difficult question for me.
What matters to me in the garden has a lot of variables and diversity has always been important to me. First of all, I am unsure what "limited resources" might mean. If it is money to purchase that produce from the stores or that food availability is absent –– that could mean that calories/acre would be a concern and potatoes would rise to the top. Perhaps, I could return to the farmers' market and sell produce to folks with a higher income –– that would mean that value/acre would be important and salad greens (lettuce?) would be #1 unless I could include bouquet flowers in the choices.
Tomatoes? If I didn't grow them, DW might not find a preferred variety for her salsa sauce. Oh No! Pasta sauce wouldn't be available from the freezer 12 months out of the year. I wouldn't be growing Porters tomato from seed my Grandmother and Uncle provided for me from the Great Depression and that I have had nearly every year for more than 30 –– nostalgia.
It was a great disappointment that I couldn't find a suitable melon variety when I first began gardening in this part of the world. Melons are my most important food treat from the garden –– indulgence. Finally, I came up with a couple melon varieties, thanks to plant breeders and seed companies. Now, I would lose that and just take whatever is grown for the market in California?!
Backed into some kind of corner, I think that I must choose what is most important to DW and me at the table. That would be stir-fry greens and specifically, if I must choose only one, Bok Choy.
Steve (ya know, i'm tempted to choose "Angiosperms in the Plantae Family." wouldn't that give me almost everything except mushrooms
and mistletoe 
??)
What matters to me in the garden has a lot of variables and diversity has always been important to me. First of all, I am unsure what "limited resources" might mean. If it is money to purchase that produce from the stores or that food availability is absent –– that could mean that calories/acre would be a concern and potatoes would rise to the top. Perhaps, I could return to the farmers' market and sell produce to folks with a higher income –– that would mean that value/acre would be important and salad greens (lettuce?) would be #1 unless I could include bouquet flowers in the choices.
Tomatoes? If I didn't grow them, DW might not find a preferred variety for her salsa sauce. Oh No! Pasta sauce wouldn't be available from the freezer 12 months out of the year. I wouldn't be growing Porters tomato from seed my Grandmother and Uncle provided for me from the Great Depression and that I have had nearly every year for more than 30 –– nostalgia.
It was a great disappointment that I couldn't find a suitable melon variety when I first began gardening in this part of the world. Melons are my most important food treat from the garden –– indulgence. Finally, I came up with a couple melon varieties, thanks to plant breeders and seed companies. Now, I would lose that and just take whatever is grown for the market in California?!
Backed into some kind of corner, I think that I must choose what is most important to DW and me at the table. That would be stir-fry greens and specifically, if I must choose only one, Bok Choy.
Steve (ya know, i'm tempted to choose "Angiosperms in the Plantae Family." wouldn't that give me almost everything except mushrooms
and mistletoe ??)
