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Would you rather perfect watering or speedy processing?

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I started a thread to get "Would You Rather" style questions to start conversations here -> https://permies.com/t/238000/Permaculture-Edition#2203263 That thread is more for thinking up questions. This thread is for answering them.

So... Would you rather have a magic fairy who would keep your garden watered at just the right amount all season long or a magic wizard who could process and preserve all of one crop in a single second?

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Easy decision for me, I want the watering. I don't mind canning etc, I like it, but I SUCK at keeping things watered properly in this climate. Can the fairy get my houseplants too? They whine sometimes....

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I vote for watering, but only if said fairies pay for it as well.

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I'm going with the water faerie, sometimes when I go on trips in the hot months the plants have to go an extra day or two without water and I come home and they're droopy. Because I'm still in an apartment with a patio and potted gardening I'm not in a situation (yet?) where I need to hurry and process bulk crops before they go off. So definitely the watering.

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Water fairy of course. Since I live in one of the driest places on earth a magic source of water would be fantastic.

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I really need help with processing. So many good things, greens and berries especially, go to waste because I am too slow with that part. (Except when I overstuffed the jar with garlic mustard and it exploded.) I will take the wizard.

But in reality it’s an issue I need to figure out independent of any magical assistance.

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This is a hard one, because while I would really need the processing experience, my childhood memories of that time are hectic.
So I would prefer perfect watering.

Wait - does "all of one crop" mean only all of one vegetable? Because then I'd choose one veggie to have someone else process (probably a root cellar crop), and I would focus on canning, dehydrating, and freezing to get the time-management and practical experience.

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