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Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:05:02 +0000

Mark asks…

What will food and services cost when we deport all Mexican workers?

No one is showing the average american the data that shows just how much food and service prices will rise as a result of exporting all Mexican workers. Data is showing congress that people in large cities will go into civil war because of shortages of food. Many of the extremely wealthy people in this country have been informed to buy land in extreme Southern United States where they will be able to grow their own food and secure older southern workers who have experience in producing food to survive. This confidential document shows that the United States if deporting workers that we would be dependent on foreign countries for food just as we are for oil. The populations that will be affected the most are the urban areas and poor and minorites. This is the reason that many of the most powerful people in american are buying rural farms very quitely in the Southeast United States. Within 5 years major food shortages will exist in meat and vegetables.

GardenersCardiff answers:

Give it a break–the facts below

I will speak for many farmers-the 80% who don’t want illegals here. Your food is covered-most farmers do not support the big corp farms who use migrant workers.

Less than 10 percent by Mexico (10%pickers-less10% other farm related)–the other 90% of the farms say your welcome. We don’t need you -you need us. Be nice

“Phillip Martin, an economist at the University of California, Davis, has demolished the argument that a crackdown on illegals would ruin it, or be a hardship to consumers. Most farming — livestock, grains, etc. — doesn’t heavily rely on hired workers. Only about 20 percent of the farm sector does, chiefly those areas involving fresh fruit and vegetables.

The average “consumer unit” in the U.S. Spends $7 a week on fresh fruit and vegetables, less than is spent on alcohol, according to Martin. On a $1 head of lettuce, the farm worker gets about 6 or 7 cents, roughly 1/15th of the retail price. Even a big run-up in the cost of labor can’t hit the consumer very hard.

Martin recalls that the end of the bracero guest-worker program in the mid-1960s caused a one-year 40 percent wage increase for the United Farm Workers Union. A similar wage increase for legal farm workers today would work out to about a 10-dollar-a-year increase in the average family’s bill for fruit and vegetables. Another thing happened with the end of the bracero program: The processed-tomato industry, which was heavily dependent on guest workers and was supposed to be devastated by their absence, learned how to mechanize and became more productive.”

If every illegal alien here today currently left America, the immediate economic impact would be insignificant and over the long haul, the impact would likely be negligible.

Got it!

Employment-the same-thing-not much of an impact
do your research here. We manage well before. Quit looking for excuse like the big corps do.

We will have some shortages–but because of drought and other things——I know corps will say different—get informed. Stop the spread of lies.

David asks…

How many libs are willing to go back to the horse & buggy age to combat global warming?

The days where we grew our own food, hunted for our own meat, sewed our own clothes etc?

GardenersCardiff answers:

Very few. They talk a good game but action is another thing.

Thanks for posting a non Ron Paul question

Paul asks…

Why do we in the United States subsidize cotton farming?

I am not against farming subsidies in general since we would need to grow our own food if there is another major global war, but why subsidize the cotton barrons? This seems like a huge waste of tax payer money just to enrich the politically influential cotton barons. It is cheaper to import atleast some of our cotton.

GardenersCardiff answers:

The problem is that very large benefits go to a few groups who therefore have an incentive to work very hard to keep the subsidies. The costs are widely distributed – they affect millions of consumers, but the costs are pretty small for each consumer, so they have little incentive to lobby against the subsidies.

Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:05:03 +0000

Lisa asks…

Rate my rap lyrics anybody?

These are my own lyrics apart from the chorus obviously, its a twist on Stan – Eminem, written with the same story line but a totally different person, I can’t rap, but if I could, I would rap it along to the instrumentals of Stan – Eminem

Chorus
My tea‘s gone cold I’m wondering why I got out of bed at all,
The morning rain clouds up my window, and I can’t see at all
And even if I could it’ll all be gray, but your picture on my wall
It reminds me, that it’s not so bad,
It’s not so bad…

Hey Slim, First i’d like to say that I wish I was your daughter,
It’s amazing what you do, all those songs you write for her,
She’s so lucky; I wish my dad would have done the same,
But he walked when I was little, hell I’ve even forgot his name,
So I’m writing you this letter, and I know that you’ll send one too,
But before you write, I’ll tell you how much I’m actually like you,

We’re both from rough families, see I grew up with a drug-addicted brother,
We lived in a trailer too, with our alcoholic mother,
The two of us, well we never went to school,
Probably why my hand-writings so bad, but I hope that’s still cool?
I’ve already mentioned that I never knew my father,
‘A loser, violent asshole ‘ my mom says, but that’s just because he didn’t want her,
When things got really bad, I could always just listen to your music,
I’d come home and feel better, because I know you had been through it,
So I’m writing this all down, to let you know just how much we have in common,
Please write me back, I love you Slim, I’m your biggest fan, this is Lauren.

Slim, I wanna know why you won’t just write me,
You must have a lot of work, that must be why, it has to be,
I’m in that place again, feeling like I have no one to talk to,
I’m hoping you’ll write back, so I can relate myself to what you went through,
I’d like to tell you, a bit more how things fell out in order,
The butterfly effect you know, how it started with my Judas of a father,
See I believe every thing happens for a reason, and he set off a whole line domino’s,
After he told my mom he was leaving,
Now I’ll always be one to wonder,
What if he hadn’t left? would my brother still be six feet under?
Would I look in the mirror and resent myself daily?
Please write me back Slim, honestly right now you’re the only one who can save me.

Hi Marshall, It’s Lauren, the depressing girl who wrote you,
I’ve lost hope now and don’t write me back now; I don’t expect you to,
I really thought you of all people would have helped me,
I’ve loved you like you since I can remember, like you were my own family,
Why did I think the most famous rapper in the world would give me some attention?
My own mother couldn’t do that and not to mention,
You have your own family to care for and I understand that completely,
I’m dead and buried now, but YOU Slim, YOU could of saved me.

GardenersCardiff answers:

That’s deep & beautiful. I loved music too when I was growing up it’s comforting to know someone else out there feels your pain & you’re not alone.

If you don’t rap, maybe you should think about poetry? You can sell & publish your writings with your own copyright.

Richard asks…

How would one grow tea like the tea at Teavana?

I want to start growing my own tea, and making my own blends. I have a greenhouse. Is there a certain tea leaf plant? What other herbs and fruits does teavana use to make their blends? Do they dehydrate fruit to add too? I have an orchard, and herb garden, and beehives, the only thing I don’t produce for my tea is the actual tea.

GardenersCardiff answers:

Camellia sinensis is where tea comes from.

Donna asks…

How many ounces/pounds of tea leaves can a tea tree produce in the southeast United States?

I want to grow my own tea and I want to know how much I can get off a tree per year.
As you can see this is a very specific question. I’ve done a bit of research, but can’t find the amount to be expected for one tree for one year. One pound? Twenty pounds? One hundred pounds?

GardenersCardiff answers:

The tea that you drink comes from the leaves of a plant named camellia sinensis. It is a bush, not a tree. They are usually grown at a higher elevation. Get more info here:

http://www.learn-about-tea.com/camellia-sinensis.html