Fruit And Veggie Prices About To Explode

Or, and here me out here, OR a good incentive to cut them out of your diet completely and focus on Twinkies and Chocolate....

Nothing to worry about!
On FAA, there are over 6,000 images with fresh looking tomatoes and 1,400 heads of lettuce.

Unfortunately, Twinkies are a higher-quality product. I prefer to focus on the cheap garbage snacks found at the dollar store. With the ones coming from outside the U.S., in addition to the bad nutrition at least you stand a better chance of getting some toxins and banned substances added in.

EXACTLY

Too bad organic farming is not encouraged more in the US...and in states other than California.. Here is the food pyramid...Vegetables should dominate the American diet...Not the case for most Americans...and the high prices will stifle consumption even more...not to mention the burden the high prices will put on grocers like Whole Food and Fresh Market whose main focus is on selling these items.. Here is a picture of the food pyramid... just FYI... It has changed over the years...

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you have to hybridize those twinkies and make them grow into a tree.

the problem with veggies are -- they are gross. if they can design them to taste like bacon, then i'm all in. they are just all too bitter for me.



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---Mike Savad

Most non-Californians don't know that water from the Central Valley region (the major ag area in California) is being pumped south to southern Cal for expansive lawns and swimming pools. Groundwater in the valley is being withdrawn at record levels resulting in depletion of aquifers. This is a long term problem that may be the "tip of the iceberg" of problems stemming from accelerated global climate change. We have only ourselves to blame.

Veggies that taste like bacon.... yes!

JC ........ Or, and here me out here ..........
LOL, I heard you out here ... and you have my full support!!! Nothing beats Twinkies and Chocolate !

Love my veggies! Here's a smoothie I have every day: greens such as bok choy, spinach and kale, carrot, celery, cucumber, sometimes some beet, 1/2 an avocado (gotta have the avocado...it makes the smoothie nice and creamy), and some berries, blended with lots of water. I love the taste of it. Going to the farmer's market every weekend will help with the cost but I noticed the price of limes recently was up to $1.60 each! (I'm in Canada and have noticed prices are increasing lately.)

Limes are hijacked by Mexican Cartels. We simply import too much food.

Peggy, it is the off season for citrus. Target has low amounts of preservative in it's lemon and lime juice, tastes like the fresh, although nutritionally not quite the same.

That isnīt that much if I compare it with my country.
BTW its aspargus season - delicious

I have been keeping an eye on the news for the drought in California, and other parts of the Southwest, for some time, so it is no surprise to me.

Me too, Walter. About the limes...I have a hard time giving them up but switched to lemons for now. @ Suzanne ~ thanks for the tip but I don't think we even have Target stores in Canada. Anyway, I live in a very small village that's relatively far (and a ferry ride) from a city. And the cost of a ferry ride just went up again!

A truckload of alfalfa got wet when storm winds ripped the tarp off. I was bummed at first then decided it was a blessing. All that moldy hay will be mixed with goat bonbons then dug into the veggie garden and mulched around the plants. Earthworms love alfalfa as much as the goatie girls do so the garden should be especially fruitful this summer.

Goat bonbons? BONBONS? LOL! Probably the most unique word for turds I've ever heard!

Chicken poo from my sister's hen house is the secret to our vegetable garden. I hadn't been able to grow much since moving to South Carolina from Virginia until we started keeping chickens. Last year was the best harvest I've had in years. We also had decent rainfall last summer for a change.

Chicken poo is great for winter greens because of the nitrogen but need to be composted longer and used sparingly. Bonbons aren't as hot as chickens' poo and they aren't stinky. I use wheelbarrows full of fresh bonbons in planting holes for ornamental trees and shrubs and they never burn the roots. And bonbons are light and fluffy so they are a joy to handle. Who cannot resist a lovely chocolate-covered treat with a light, fluffy filling?

@MM
"Chicken poo from my sister's hen house is the secret to our vegetable garden. Last year was the best harvest I've had in years."

And in spring and summer when the windows to the house are open, that wonderful chicken scratch smell adds so much to the ambiance and quality of life!

There is farming country not to far from home that is extremely heavy in large commercial chicken farms. When shooting in the area we always stop in town to grab a sandwich to eat on the road going home. I have learned to never, NEVER start eating that sandwich until after passing thru the fragrance "cloud." If you're eating the sandwich when you drive thru it, it's enough to make you toss your cookies.

Our natural gas price doubled in Canada last month. Double. Would you buy anything f it doubled in price? Supposedly because of the long, cold winter. Gas at the pumps is going up for the long weekend, I don't know what it is here but on the news it's getting up towards $1.50/ liter in eastern Canada. Beef prices have gone up here because cattle numbers are way down. Most of our produce comes from California, Mexico or Florida so I suppose that will go up too.. I can either stop eating, driving or heating my house..

Your mention of exploding vegetables immediately made me think of this!

http://youtu.be/5rqRbLO3U7Y

My little garden patch isn't getting planted this year - I have nematode problems that canker the the roots of everything I plant. There are only two things that grow really well there - Mexican Hydangeas (invasive and noxious smelling - but pretty flowers that butterfly's love) and the pink blooming Oxalis. This is Florida and we have ONE pretty good green grocer in the area - already bought a bushel of green beans to can. We will be looking for a local farmer for corn, in season - should be a good year - we've had plenty of rain. All of the surrounding citrus trees (including my little lemon tree) bloomed well - should be plenty of fruit (grapefruit, oranges and tangerines). We don't eat potatoes - so that's not a problem. There are large carrot farms just up the road. "I" don't eat tomatoes - and onions have never been a problem - as long as BACON doesn't become a problem - I'll survive. the feedlots have plenty of cattle waiting to be made into hamburger and steak - haven't noticed any shortage of beef in the area - and the prices aren't bad - if you are buying local beef and not imported from the midwest. Much, and I live in Florida - of our groceries comes from Chile or Mexico - very little from the "land of taxes" called California. Passing down the highways and byways in the area - most folks gardens have been planted and appear to be up and running. Today is when a lot of folks finish planting their gardens for whatever they are growing this year. The problem around here is deer and rabbits - plenty of both - and they are edible as well. I have wild turkey in my yard - not edible - wish it were the drinkable sort.

When I was a child and lived on the farm - we used composted cow poo and about every three years chicken poo was turned into the garden - haven't had one like it since.

As for gas prices - up 45Ē/gal in the last six weeks and expected to go higher. It's about 20Ē higher than this time last year. It's being blamed on changing to the summer time formula - I guess winter is gone now. (??? except maybe where you are)

Too bad they can't have water lines like they do gas lines so everyone has water. There is still ice in the Midwest along and over the Great Lakes.

I used to have a 20'x20' vegetable garden but something got into it and my plants wouldn't flourish and my corn got fungus so we tilled it out. I'm hoping to have a little veggie box this year-tomatoes, peppers. Can't grow citrus in New Jersey, unfortunately or I would give it a try.