Gardens - what to call them this time around?
 

We had Victory Gardens during the wars and a Depression Gardens during the Great Depression. I see that Burpee is now selling what they call a Money garden:

http://www.burpee.com/product/id/112011.do

Has anyone coined a phrase for the gardens this time around???

I think there are multiple reasons gardens are becoming more commen.

The two big ones are probably:

#1) Economics
#2) Health/Environment Benefits

Money Garden really only captures the first. I have met several people in just the last couple of weeks who have started gardens with the last couple of years, at least of couple of whom are also raising chickens for eggs, etc. These are not folks doing it for "money" reasons nor am I, although it could be a nice bonus.

I've always called mine 'Cheaper than Therapy'.

hollym

I think most folks are just gonna call theirs vegetable gardens, but perhaps collectively they will be the "Second Great Depression" gardens or perhaps the "Greater Depression" gardens? What's worse than a Depression, anyway? A crater? A Black Hole? Where we are headed is worse than the '30's were, IMHO. I'm expecting a total financial meltdown within a year or so, possibly to the point of no more US$, so planting food is always good. If you have more than you can eat, you can always barter it.

Their advertising for these seeds says you can grow all this wonderful stuff on a "mere" 1/10th of an acre. That's about 4,500 square feet, isn't it? That's a huge garden and I doubt you can plant an entire garden with six packets of seeds. I am beginning to completely detest advertising.

For my gardens, it has been open pollinated seeds, save the seeds and ALL I've been planting for the last year has been edible things. I do think folks need to start now since it takes a couple years for a garden to do well. There are all these folks out there "prepping" but they don't seem to understand that this will be a shift of living conditions, not just a "hunker down and wait a bit until things resume" sort of difficulty. They may as well learn to produce all their own stuff so when things shift they will already be there. IMHO, homesteading is a better answer than "prepping" but everyone's path is different.

I'm calling mine the 'Starvin garden' this year. ok..we're not there just yet, but it's catchy..LOL

Stimulus Gardens.

:)
SBJ

401k gardens? lost equity gardens?

I like 401K gardens..."I cashed out my 401K and all I got was this handful of seeds".

"Garden of Eatin'"

Maybe I should copyright that?

Yep, mines a "Survival garden" for sure.

How about... "The government didn't bail ME out garden". LOL

The "too big to fail" garden!

LOL too funny

Sounds like you may qualify for a bail out ;)

i'll call mine what it's always been called...the garden. that's what it will be called in the future just as it has been in the past.

i must say that "stimulus garden" and "starvin' garden" are kinda catchy. :)

"I want to eat something not full of chemicals" garden.

That's why I plant a garden!

Kitty

I was going to suggest "Survival Garden" because that is the most realistic description.

So much of America's food is grown in California's Central Valley (San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys. The State has announced that they are cutting water off to the farmers and diverting it to the cities. This will drive the price of food up everywhere!

Frankly, I think this water shortage is contrived, because the mountains have a huge snow pack of wet, heavy snow. Yesterday they said the snow pack at Mammoth Mountain is 14 feet! This article supports me in my assessment: http://www.ksrw.sierrawave.net/site/.../view/1825/48/ We are still expecting more snow and rain through march and part of April.

We have had more snow than usual at our ranch in the San Bernardino mountains too!

Back to the Future gardens. :)

Sweetbabyjane, I like Stimulus garden, too!


Jennifer

I like Stimulus Garden also. Was thinking along the lines of "Belly Up Garden".

I thought the potential water problems in the west had to due with the draining of large underground water aquifers that are being slowly depleted?

We actually use above ground reservoirs for the most part in California. This article: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2...-02-27-093.asp also points out that water from the delta has been cut to two thirds of the State to protect the Delta Smelt.

I just call mine "The Garden of Eatin' "

Be very careful not to name your garden a bailout garden. If you do, the govt will be on your doorstep wanting over half of it to distribute to a percentage of the population that is too sorry to work and the rest will go to the garden executives already making exorborant salaries!

How about "Real Food Garden"?

Oh how true!

LOL

Kitty

Garden
 

I call my 1/2 acre garden, My Garden of Life.

I like the stimulus garden, but DH is calling ours our victory garden, because we will be victorious over the government and its idiots.

We had to name our garden when we first began selling produce at a Farmer's Market.

We live in Argyle Maine, so our garden is 'Argyle Acres'.

Mine is a Garden of Weedin'!

I like survival garden too.

Can't be a 401k garden, at the end of the crash you should have something left. LOL

Yeah!

I have several gardens and call them different names. There's the kitchen garden, the herb garden, the volunteer garden, the hidden garden, and the field garden. All combined they are the survival gardens.

how about the "$avings Garden"??

Mine is the "wish global warming would reach me" garden

Love it! Someone mentioned "I cashed in my 401K and all I got was these seeds...". Made me think of Jack & the Beanstalk straight off. I really need to get out more.

"Change Gardens"

That is all Obama left me with was a little change to buy some seeds

Garden of Weedin--ok I see that was taken!

my daughter bought me a sign for my garden a few years ago, has a crow with a straw hat and says garden of weedin

Homestead garden or Freedom garden---Personally, I avoid the use of the word "survival." :)