by Trobador222 » Thu Dec 17, 2020 6:08 pm
Citizen Dolly wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 5:42 pm
rob wots wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:31 pm
dolly, how's it going with the allotment?
Still got it, though I struggle to find the time and energy to work it properly anymore.
I always thought that was cool that you did that. I used to muck a round growing a few things. One of the things I found hard, is nothing I like to eat, grows well where I live in the northern tropics. Plus our soil has a higher salt content because of our proximity to the coast.
Now I drive all over the country, I get to see all the crops that are grown in different places. There is a tremendous amount of just corn and soybeans grown in the US. The corn is used for a lot of things besides just feeding people, so it is a cash crop that is easy I guess. A large amount is grown for alcohol for energy use and quite a bit is also for animal feed.
In northern Texas, Oklahoma and into Kansas, there are areas where they grow a lot of sorghum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum_bicolor. When I first saw it, it looked to me, like miniature corn plants that were tasseling when they were only a foot tall. I didn't know what it was.
When I started driving, I was thinking I would get to see all "the amber waves of grain". Those are mostly in the NW US. I see a lot of wheat and oats grown in Washington State and Oregon. I have seen rice growing in Louisiana. And the most diverse place is the Central Valley in California.
[quote="Citizen Dolly" post_id=1254 time=1608219767 user_id=201]
[quote="rob wots" post_id=1192 time=1607459513 user_id=200]
dolly, how's it going with the allotment?[/quote]
Still got it, though I struggle to find the time and energy to work it properly anymore.
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I always thought that was cool that you did that. I used to muck a round growing a few things. One of the things I found hard, is nothing I like to eat, grows well where I live in the northern tropics. Plus our soil has a higher salt content because of our proximity to the coast.
Now I drive all over the country, I get to see all the crops that are grown in different places. There is a tremendous amount of just corn and soybeans grown in the US. The corn is used for a lot of things besides just feeding people, so it is a cash crop that is easy I guess. A large amount is grown for alcohol for energy use and quite a bit is also for animal feed.
In northern Texas, Oklahoma and into Kansas, there are areas where they grow a lot of sorghum.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum_bicolor. When I first saw it, it looked to me, like miniature corn plants that were tasseling when they were only a foot tall. I didn't know what it was.
When I started driving, I was thinking I would get to see all "the amber waves of grain". Those are mostly in the NW US. I see a lot of wheat and oats grown in Washington State and Oregon. I have seen rice growing in Louisiana. And the most diverse place is the Central Valley in California.