It seems useful to split crops off from technique.
Here is where you can recommend, ask about, or discuss (I know some of you will want to brag about your harvests! Feel free--it inspires other members) crops.
It is
strongly recommended that you focus on things that are easy-to-grow, and/or have high food value, because most of us will not have the time or the resources to allocate on fussy or impractical crops. Of course, these are relative concepts, and hard-to-grow in one part of the world might be a weed in another, so just use your good judgment...and warn others if you are aware of potential problems with a crop.
Disease-resistance is probably an important issue. I got rid of my peaches and nectarine trees, because it was an expensive and losing battle to fight the peach-leaf curl (ironically, the neighborhood nursery now has a resistant breed on sale for fall clearance...I might go get one).
Some of the ideas of the Permaculture movement are worth looking into. I decided against creating a permaculture board, because it would overlap with other topics, and because I wanted to avoid any political baggage such as exists in some of the Permaculture Circles. I am
persona non grata in some of them because I am not a marxist (and Marx was not an environmentalist...sometimes people already have the solution and go looking for problems to apply it to...).
Instead of creating a seperate board, I suggest keeping in mind issues like
- Where is the fertilizer going to come from?
- What can I do for myself without expensive purchased products?
- How and what will I feed it?
- Can I accomplish the same thing another way, or with already available resources?
- Can I find reuse this?
- Can I find a different use for it when I'm done with it?
