Thank you Rachel Ray. I will look out for this on Sunday.

 

In the comic the prison is stocked with lots of food. And they grow quite a large garden with several different kinds of vegetables.

 

Hmmmmm, I guess walkers make good fertilizer. Plenty to go around. Wonder if anyone would use it? Nah.....

 

Sure if you want a zombie zucchini. :Grin:

 

I think at first they are hoping to find food in the prison. It seemed to me that Hershel was looking at what could be (as he should be).

 

I was kinda hoping that we don't see them stuck in this prison for too long but it seems they will be, I'd like to see more happen in a season than settling in one place and at the end having to up sticks and leave. How about they up sticks and leave half way through the season and try another scenario for the second part? That would be better in my eyes. Just don't want it to get stuck in a rut like on the farm.

Plus it is fairly secure inside the prison walls but the prison fences are really not that impenetrable for zombies or human intruders to me. if enough zombies pile against the other side it will come crashing down - it would be better if there were concrete walls all around plus everything is visible so if you start planting here and any 'group' of survivors come and see it, they will likely want it for their own and then you have to try to protect it. Much better to plant in a less open location and less visible. It's also a big place to cover too 24 hrs a day even with gun towers, let's be honest you would need someone in all of them to clearly look after the place and they don't have that big a group. And if they start to pop off weapons eventually more and more zombies are gonna come and then the fences won't hold.

A prison wouldn't be my ideal choice to survive in but they don't really have many options at the moment.

 

The prison is a bad mistake for the group, but Rick isn't thinking clearly because he cannot deal with having killed Shane for Lori.

If - last season - they had merged with Randall's group and left the farm for a more secure holding before the herd attacked, they would have had enough people for the prison. Not that a prison is a good bet - as you say, those fences are not truly secure against a herd, not against raiders. Also, prisons are hardly built with human mental health in mind - living there will be very bad for morale. And when morale is low, people make mistakes.

The soil in the yard looks pretty good and they could train a lot of cukes, tomatoes and zucchini up against the inside of the fence, grow soybeans, corn, greens, etc. in the middle. Given all the goo that likely got washed from the walkers into the soil over the winter, they probably won't need to fertilize for a while.

Unless Herschal has gathered seed along the way, they'll have to forage for seed. Any good food in the prison kitchen will be canned, and canned seeds are not viable. A lot of gardens will probably have gone to seed and there will be a lot of seedlings coming up since it's spring. If they can transplant them, they should grow vigorously.

But the group really should choose a smaller, more defensible location. It's amazing, given that they spent all winter traveling, that they didn't find such a place. But though they're tactically much stronger with a year's experience of living in the ZA, their strategy has not improved.