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In reply to the discussion: Wait until you go to the grocery store this week,. I thought I'd faint. [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Which is why peanut prices have soared.
I read about the failures and stocked up on peanut butter in the fall. I also stocked up on bread in my freezer last fall because of the wheat crop failures, not just in the US, but in breadbasket countries around the world.
Get used to it, folks. There is no global warming. Just massive flooding or droughts, take your pick.
I started growing a lot of my own veggies last summer, and got a lot of my mistakes and experiments out of the way. This summer it is for real. Soybeans are great both green and dried, so I hope to triple the amount I grow this year. I'll be checking out my experimental dried "vermont red" beans next week. Green beans....eh. Will shrink that crop to a much smaller size. Accidentally over-planted summer squash, so will replace much of that with other things as well. And so it goes.
The experiments this summer will be limited to seed saving.