What effect will tariffs have on home gardeners in the US?
What effect will tariffs have on home gardeners in the US?
Amazing, she's levitating those plants via telekinesis. Or it's an AI image, one of those.
Possible electrical druid magic?
Perhaps!
Down voted for ai picture
Why? Did the AI steal a job from some worried looking lady?
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It didn't need to have a picture
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Could've been a stock photo or other image and no one would've cared about a watermark
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A waste of resources that harms the planet (the planet that you're trying to garden on)
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Adds nothing of value to the discussion
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Normalizes the use of technology that does in fact steal jobs from people who would be better than the technology
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Supply prices will rise if only because more people will be gardening out of need.
And because most retailers will take this opportunity to jack up prices regardless of whether the tariffs will actually impact them.
Maybe a bit out of scope for "gardening", but get to know how to sustain the life in both your garden as well as your community with as many sustainable inputs as possible.
Make your own compost and save your own seeds.
Network with people in your area.
Learn about the CSA farms in your area and see if you can contribute your little garden space to their effort in a collective manner in exchange for a complimentary CSA share (aka you use your entire plot to grow a large amount of some random veggie or herb to contribute to their program in exchange for a full season of their subscription).
Contribute excess veggies to the food bank.
Also, I hate to be "that guy", but being a Canadian/American who pays attention to news headlines in both countries, I've gotta say that a shockingly substantial amount of your neighbors have no idea how fucked their world is going to be for the foreseeable future. Shit's hitting the fan in a way that may be even bigger than 2008, and I feel like so many of us never actually recovered from that...
All that to say, "gardening" is really, really important now
Agreed. Reminds me I need to replace some of my garden fence posts, the deer keep getting in where the fence is sagging.
I bought extra pest/disease treatment supplies this year. I am minimal to no chemical/pesticides in our gardens (for obvious reasons), but sometimes i have an infestation or disease I can’t get on top of. Most chemicals and chemical components come from outside US so i stocked up on those things this year (copper sulfate, neam oil, mineral fertilizers, some of the nastier killers for vine borers, etc. I also got a soil test done early this year to get whatever amendments we needed for the soil as some of those things are imported.)