12 Survival Garden Crops to Grow (In an uncertain world)
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- To grow your own food and be successful, some crops are better than others. Focusing on nutrition, storage and preservation ability, ease of growing, and diet familiarity are important factors in choosing plants. Gardener Scott discusses 12 survival crops for most gardens. (Video #345)
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SPRING
1. Beets
2. Turnips
3. Kale
4. Spinach
5. Cabbage
6. Peas
SUMMER
7. Potatoes 🥔
8. Corn 🌽
9. Squash
10. Tomatoes 🍅
11. Beans
12. Carrots 🥕
Thank you! I’m in a place where I can’t be taking notes, thank you for taking the time to do us this favor!!
Thank you Deborah
Fall: same as spring, but I add Rutabaga, lettuce, carrots, and Fava beans to both my spring and fall. I also like Egyptian spinach which is a summer crop.
@@mudpiemudpie785 me too. I replant lots of stuff at the end of summer and get some more before the snow comes
I grow radishes instead of beets, but I do grow everything as a regular part of my garden.
Honorable mentions: sweet potatoes, peppers, cucumbers, garlic, onions, herbs.
Its called a Victory Garden
Or now. “Covid Victory Gardens”
Yes it is
VICTORY IT SHALL BE !
@@aurora571000 Tyranny Garden more like it
@@bryanutility9609 I see your point, but it has a negative feeling to it.
Agreed, sweet potatoes have worked well here in DFW Texas where summers are very hot. The yield is high if you just water them and they store well.
Great content. This has been on my mind for a few years. The challenge for me is when to convert from hobby gardening like I do, to survival gardening and calorie production for hard times. One way I've tried is to have perennial fruits that produce at different times of the year so there will often be something to eat in the garden. For my area, sweet potatoes tend to make sense for summer and store for months and months, though they take time. And root crops in the winter. Cowpeas make a great survival crop here, they will grow everywhere and are edible as greens and the beans. Very prolific, fairly quick, heat tolerant, and dried the peas store forever. Thanks for your consistently excellent content.
Thanks, Scott. You raise a good point. I think most gardeners are and have been hobby gardeners, but I'm getting many more questions from gardeners wanting to move more toward food production. Perennial fruits are one of my choices too and you'll certainly see videos when my bushes and trees begin producing. Thanks for the cowpea tip.
Great point. To me it looks like I can’t do enough, and can’t do it fast enough.. but alas, I know with gardening it’s best to add a little each year, so I made a compromise between those two ideas based on my personal free time (I ended up adding an extra 1000 Sq ft). Good luck to you. Stay safe!
@@cainomac that's a wise approach. Do whatever you can and hopefully do a little more each season.
EVERY little bit helps. I don't care if a person has ten acres or a windowsill with some herbs, it's worthwhile. :)
I would suggest doing g that change very very soon.
@@cainomac You can always buy additional produce bulk and learn to can it. Start with fruits before going to more difficult canning of veggies and meats. Don't rely on electric refrigeration or freezers as a sole way to save food.
I have successfully grown Georgia Jet sweet potatoes in my zone 5b for a few years now (upstate NY). I think they are worth it because they are so nutritious. First, make sure you get the slips or plants from a good source because that matters a lot. Second, pre-warm the soil with clear plastic for at least a few weeks before your planting date. I leave the plastic on and make holes for the plants like you would a mulch. The major downside is that weeds will come up, but the clear plastic does a great job of keeping the soil very warm which is what sweet potatoes want. Mulching in between plants helps. Black plastic might work too but I haven't tried it. Last year I got over 40 pounds of sweet potatoes in a 5ft by 12ft area which was enough for about 20 quarts canned. I can them with a brown sugar syrup....SO good in the middle of winter!
Awesome. One thing though is that if 'survival' is really something on one's horizon, it's best by orders of magnitude to practice growing these crops long before one really needs to. 'Survival skills' are only skills when practiced - otherwise it's just just trivia. Preservation is a key part of success.
Yes!! Many ups and Downs but it's really great for learning what works in ones growing zone
Good point! The most important thing to invest in is your own skills.
Absolutely. Learning curves can be filled with some failures and results less than stellar.
I second the idea of herbs and other plants that provide flavor in a survival garden. Herbs go a long way in making foods taste great and usually not too fussy to grow.
I tried using white dutch clover as a living mulch last year. It was mixed results, but more positive than negative and the negative results were either due to weather (nearly 2 inches of hail in under 1/2 hour at the end of June) or my lack of knowledge. I have added another manageable legume this year and I'll be adding perennial herbs to get some plant diversity. More root exudates means healthy soil biology, and I might as well stack functions and have some of the living mulch be tasty.
Umbellifer herbs (parsley, coriander etc) also produce roots like carrot/parsnip which contain that calorific value. Coriander root is a key (and very hard to find in stores) ingredient in Thai green curry and parsley root is good in soups and stews. Double use.
I created a great deal of pesto from my bumper Basil harvest last year. I used a recipe with walnuts, not expensive pine nuts. I froze them in ice cube trays & I like them tossed into pasta. A nice, satisfying and inexpensive side dish or can be a main dish with some protein and veggies added in.
Happily I can say I grow all the mentioned crops! We started growing most of our plant foods in 2014. That was the year we expanded our garden after moving to the country. God has blessed me with a green thumb, and the joy of providing for our family. It’s hard work, whether IN the garden or in the kitchen preserving the harvest. I push myself every year to learn something new. I now start all my seedlings and sweet potato slips so I don’t have to buy any from the garden center. I’ve even learned to grow celery. My goal this year is to perfect a bbq sauce, enchilada sauce and ketchup recipes so I don’t have to buy them from the store anymore.
I have celery in seed starting mix and they have got about a half inch high and stopped growing, stagnant. I cannot find the balance with watering, I guess. Any suggestions?
I'm interested in hiw to grow celery as well. Every time I've tried I get wimpy results.
I love your channel. Great concise and timely information. Well thought out and no fear mongering or political talk. Bravo sir.
Thank you Gardener Scott. My wife and I have become huge fans of you after recently discovering you. Thank you for taking the time to educate others. You are very encouraging and helpful. Thank you and God Bless
It's Autumn here in Adelaide, South Australia, so I'm starting my winter sowing like brassicas, carrots, beets, salad greens, onions, garlic, peas, root vegetables...etc. I just harvested my lettuce and beet seeds ready to sow again.
I'm close to harvesting my first lot of watermelon. My next lot is a bit late and will go right into winter (end of May). I have late tomatoes too. I have peppers coming along nicely. We're eating our peaches and fig. I have potatoes and sweet potatoes too. And, not forgetting oranges and mandarins.
I'm growing a winter garden this year. Carrots kale leeks turnips beets cabbage Swiss chard green onions radishes. I recommend snap peas myself because I don't like sheling them lol I would add butternut squash. They keep for a very long time and those seeds are filled with nutrition and you can roast them like pumpkin seeds. Alot of people forget about the seeds in there.
All perfect plants to grow. I grow them all each and every year, but the greens are perfect staple foods beans great for storing and potatoes would have to be on my list. great video Scott
I just read about Zucchini flour, I'm planning to give it a try this year, could be a great way to utilize the super prolific Zucchinis in the winter 👍🏻
Oh wow! I'm going to look into that!
I read about using zucchini as a milk.
If you leave some to grow into marrows, the marrows last for a long time without spoiling. I have been taking excess zucchins in bags round to my adult daughter's house as otherwise I tend to have too many. I always have marrows as some are heavily disguised against stems and I don't notice them until they are enormous. :)
Never thought of that. Thanks! Have you tried sorghum? It's super easy to grow
@@neverlostforwords can confirm, I have large zukes stay edible like winter squash to as late as Feb. They are....different, but for sure palatable. Not 2 ft large either, most around 14", but thick.
Po Tay toes. Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew. And beans. And peas. Turnips. And beets
The greens of turnips, beets, spinach, kale, all brassica! Are multivitamins
Yes, sauerkraut is fantastic. I have a good supply of canned sauerkraut. I’ll end up planting Swedes not turnip or beets as I’m the only one in my family that eat the latter. I stopped growing as a hobby more than 10 years ago and have learned as many preserving techniques as possible. So glad I did because during the pandemic and the uncertainties of the invasion in Ukraine, I’ll have an abundance of food preserved or for fresh eating.
The incursion of Russia into Russian speaking Donbas (17 million) will have lasting effects on the EU as their potash, wheat, corn and oil, gas will go to Asia as they are more interested in survival (Indonesia) and ME Egypt (needs bread), Brazil ( needs potash)- then virtue signaling as the West has succumbed to in their pursuit of the Great Reset BS.
We’ve been encouraging people to grow their own food for a long time. Macros/calories/nutrition/productivity. It’s great to see gardeners uniting to encourage people to be more self sufficient. Great video.
You are the most on-topic-RUclipsrs I invest my time in watching. Very interesting, and very well done, concise, to the point, and, of course, on topic. Interesting point in sweet potato greens. With pointers to container gardening, as well as consideration of taste at the dinner table, you have surely thought about people's needs and concerns. Of all of RUclips's gardeners, you are the Master Gardener!
Sweet Potato Greens also great for Chickens
Amen Brother Scott I'm glad you see what I see. So many people I fear are gonna be caught off guard. At this point in time it's not a bad idea to get our house in order. You, James Prigioni, Black gumbo, Christian at ice age farmer, Paul Gautschi, Cali Kim and many others have been such a blessing to me personally in the growth and development in sharpening my gardening tools.
Thank you sincerely!
This year my focus will be long term storage crops. Pintos, shell beans, winter squash, potatoes, onions, Herbs. I can't forget about canning and preservation either. You can't squeeze blood from a turnip but you can can the turnip. A person can put into jars every crop I mentioned and even more I didn't. Dry shell beans can even be dry canned into jars.
With all that is happening I know I'm not fully prepared ever. I can continue to press forward and if I'm wrong, well then that's a good thing and I'll have plenty of food to eat that I know is not poisonous and good for me.
I really need to concentrate more on saving than giving away my harvest. I did can 60 jars of tomatoes and still have good onions, potatoes, and some frozen veggies, but need to expand on different methods preserving and cooking what comes out of my garden.
Great video Scott!
You sound like you are doing okay. Its a struggle here. I dont know how a family of 5 could grow crops sufficient to feed them on a 3/4 acre city plot. Its a challenge.
@@kathymcmc I am still learning how to make the best use of the space I have. Going to try some grow bags this year. Mainly because I did some straw bale gardens last year and used inorganic fertilizers to condition them. Come to find out, inorganic fertilizers are detrimental to soil biology, so I could not plant in the soil where the bales were. So I'm going with 25 gallon grow bags.
I have a video on RUclips "Brian Seybert garden tour" it may give you some ideas.
I do know one thing, you can certainly interplant all sorts of vegetables and herbs. This will be my 3rd year garden and plan on doing a lot more interplanting and perennial cover crops. Just be mindful when interplanting, don't make the mistakes I did last year by shading plants out.
Good luck this year, you can do it!
@@kathymcmc Growing as much as you can vertically helps a lot as does growing in blocks rather than rows. In my experience anyway.
@@brianseybert2189
Yes, grow bags are great. I have 8 bags that have had blueberries in them, this will be their 5th year, still holding up well. Sound investment! (And 5 years ago they were lots cheaper!)
Sounds like the perfect garden plan to me! Thank you for this informative video!
Thanks so much for this list and for including your rationale. Very helpful!
Thanks for sharing Scott - I'm beginning my gardening journey this spring! Your videos are so clear and I love your attitude.
Love all your helpful videos! I was surprised to hear you mention field corn because it’s so rare these days for human consumption. It’s our favorite!! We cut off the kernels then run the blade of the knife down the cob to get the cream. Freeze it in pint or quart freezer bags, no blanching needed. It’s good for over a year in the freezer. When you cook it, just cool over low heat, adding salt, pepper, butter, and water. It takes a lot of water-making a larger quantity of food. So good with fried okra and fresh sliced tomatoes and onions-a Southern eating tradition.😋😋😋😋
Hi Scott, great video on which plants can be grown for survival, lots on information too. Thanks for sharing and take care 🙂
Fabulous video!! Very detailed and packed full of essential info without being too overwhelming :) I'll be sharing it with many, thank you!!
Thanks Gardener Scott I get a lot of help out of yours videos. God bless your family
Great video and just in time :) Just a few thoughts: You may consider companying planting for healthy plants, for instance planting onions between carrots to keep the carrot fly away. There are perennial onions from which only the foliage is harvested. They grow back like chives and are hardy. They don`t need much space in your beds! Also herbs are important for a survival garden because of their medical properties and to lure pollinators to your garden, but also because they help keep your vegetable healthy as companion plants.
Fantastic information for all to possess. Thank you for a timely video. Off setting grocery cost is very helpful.
One of the most informative vids you’ve done! Thank you sir! Amazing channel! One of 5 I recommend to new gardeners.
thanks for sharing! I have all of these on my list to grow this year
Great video and packed with great suggestions for the world we're living in now. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this. We are living in uncertain times, so having your own garden will be a bonus. Cheers, Scott! ✌️
Great video! I have a very similar list, which also includes swiss chard, lettuce and leeks.
I also grow perennials that provide a welcome harvest as shoots in early spring, such as asparagus, hostas (they're all edible), udo (Aralia cordata) and caucasian spinach (Hablitzia tamnoides). And jerusalem artichoke for its healthy inulin.
With a greenhouse or a polytunnel it's even possible to harvest precious leaves in the middle of winter by adding an extra insulating layer over the plants. Miner's lettuce or winter purslane (Claytonia perfoliata), curly leaf parsley and spinach can be grown like this. Use hoops and fleece over the beds, and they can survive temperatures as low as 0° F (-20° C) without any heating.
It's also important to learn how to save seeds. Without this knowledge, you won't have anything to grow once your seed packets are empty.
Good info, thank you
Swiss chard is incredibly nutritious! You can dehydrated or freeze dry it and then powder it to add to regular meals for an extra boost. I make my own veggie stock with this method. You can too! Good luck 💖
We're thinking of adding an inflatable hot tub to the greenhouse to grow year round.
If they aren't heirloom they won't produce true to same fruit/veggie so it's not going to be the same next perfectly the next time you harvest. Gmo fields etc make sure of that. Hope this helps.
@@seekeroftruth9900 That's an important point. With seed-saving in mind, you'll want to buy open-pollinated seeds that are produced locally (or in a similar climate). I even prefer biodynamic seeds if I can find it, they're the best in my experience.
I puréed summer squashes this year and they taste great. You could add them to soups/stews too. I did this because I have a dog with a liver shunt and I don’t want his meals to be boring RX food so I supplement with it. So easy to store in flattened ziplocks in the freezer and it’s good whether for my sickly dog or our family.
Your dog is fortunate to have you as his compassionate owner.
Thank you for this video I'm only starting to garden this year and need all the help I can get
Great video Gardener Scott! In addition to the spinach/kale/cabbage I would also add swiss chard. I grew rainbow chard for the first time this year and the leaves are huge and delicious! It tastes "salty" to me and I prefer it over some lettuces.
Agree 100%. Chard tastes better than kale, goes okay with Indian or Italian spices and herbs Chard always grows well and bountifully in multiple seedings Broccoli might not head, spinach can be finicky. Chard just keeps on giving in heat or cool with minimal work. I broadcast early and again after garlic or onions. Plus, the ruby and rainbow varieties are beautiful to look at. Love it.
I plant broccoli for the leaves I will be growing a Italian broccoli that is just leaf this year planting it like my lettuce high intensity
I still have peppers and green beans in my freezer from last years garden. I will definitely be adding containers to my garden this year! My garden isn't large enough to provide for all if my family's nutritional needs. However, I'm determined to grow as much food as I can this year!
Agree. Swiss Chard tends to be easy to grow, and it's full of nutrients. Perfect for a survival garden
Just a tip folks, hostas taste like spinach when you use the young leaves. Who knew?
When it gets hot out here in Colorado, I've found New Zealand Spinach grows unbelievably well through July and August. I had one plant cover a 2ft x3ft area through the middle of summer.
This video is wonderful. Full of great wisdom. We are currently in survival mode in many other ways and now I am ready to order more of all these seeds. God bless and thank you.
This is a Must see video right now!
Well done Sir, and thank you!
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We must be Capricorns! It is crazy how timely you posted this video!! All day I feel like I need to be getting ready for Armageddon! LIKE IT'S 1999🤣 Seriously, I just sent text relaying my thoughts to SIL and happened to see notification of your video with a titled that seemed to have beamed right out of my head. The only difference between 1999 and now is it's happening!! I ordered fruit to start an orchard today, seed potatoes--And I realized kennebecs are determinates🤣🤣 All that hilling for nothing.
All I think about with stocking up is all those canned goods in my in-laws basement (from 1999) we had to clear out when they passed on. I'm passing on the canned plums.🤣 Thanks Scott--Great timing!
Solid advice. I’ve grown a lot of those and plan to again this season for all the reasons you’ve alluded to.
Thank you for presenting this. My husband and I were discussing things we may want to have on hand including flour, yeast and sugar. Fresh produce in our own backyard is our goal as well.
This is very timely. Thanks so much Scott!
Yes!! Include herbs right in the beds with your bull crops to include in your cooking AND keep pests away. Chamomile, peppermint, spearmint, thyme, sage, rosemary, oregano, parsley, lavender. Once you have a patch of these they’ll be there year after year.
Be careful. Some of them will spread and take over garden. Plant in pots and arrange in garden to help your main plants
Thanks. Very informative video! Don’t forget to have some flowers for the bees/ pollination.
Such great advice!!! We just started a garden this year and we are so excited!
That's an excellent overview! You'll get some folks off to a great start with this.
A nice thing about the bonus crops you mentioned is that they can be interspersed in the main garden, similar to how you described adding beans here and there. I've found that one or two pepper plants will settle in nicely among a bed of tomatoes, for instance. And we grow onions along one row of tomatoes every year, plus of course basil.
Many other herbs work well that way. That variety in diet you spoke of is so important. And having enjoyed them for years, I really do think all those popular garden companion plants help repel pests.
We also discovered that when growing beans meant to be used dry, it's wise to taste them young too. Some varieties are listed for both uses, some aren't spectacular when green, but we were pleased to find that fresh green pinto beans are among our favorites. So that was a fun bonus.
Three Sisters style beds should almost always be the cornerstone of the plan in my opinion. You can't really go wrong starting from there.
When considering Beans, one of the most common green beans is also known by another name when allowed to dry, Great Northern Beans
love this channel and just found it. I would also add that it makes sense to grow what you CAN grow, taking into consideration the space you have and the climate you live in. Don't feel bad for not growing a huge garden if all you have is a handkerchief sized yard. You can grow UP, too, on trellises.
Great video!! The dog munching on grass in the background is hilarious (and adorable).
Thanks!
Thank you. That helped me to decide what to plant.
Great list, thanks for this video. Your voice is so calming too. 🙂 I'm almost ready to put in my fall garden, and I have plans to add most of what's included in this list.
Summer garden went great for me this year in terms of tomatoes, squash, and garden berries. I just canned up tons of tomatoes, salsa, and marinara. The first round of winter squash just came in, and my flint Indian corn did wonderful! Going to make a beautiful fall arrangement with some of it and grind the rest for flour and cornmeal.
I hope to have a great autumn/winter garden here in coastal CA..
I just discovered your channel....thank you so very much for this. Getting started on it now and am very excited about this. We see bare shelves in the grocery store now and we've just made it back home after our town and surrounding communities burned to the ground in November of 2018 (the Camp fire). Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this.
Sorry to hear you were affected by the Camp fire. I hope you have a great gardening year.
My girlfriend and I are moving to a house in zone 9a in a couple months. Starting a garden is something we’re really looking forward to. I appreciate all the advice!
Thank you so much, what a wonderful clip, so encouraging and informative
Thankyou. Excellent talk ! We have a backyard greenhouse and a large garden, always looking for helpful points. We are able to have lemons and oranges in the greenhouse all year, BC. Interior. Will be checking out your other videos.
Thank You for this timely video! Great information!
Glad to find you, great video. Nice to see someone a bit farther north, so many gardening channels are fairly far south and I'm up in zone 2a.
Thanks. You definitely have some challenges in zone 2. I hope my videos can help.
What a great list! Starting our own survival garden next month once as we are finally moving to a place on the land in Spain (from Germany) - thanks a ton for all your content Scott! 🙏
Good luck and congratulations! There's nothing more exciting than moving and setting up your first garden or other homesteading plans.
Try to keep in mind that new/first gardens usually don't perform as well as future years. You learn about how to grow in your available soil and you improve the soil of your garden beds as you practice.
Another tip is to dig your beds by hand - when you are too tired to do any more, that should be the size of your first garden as you will be able to maintain that with all the additional work you need to do through the growing season. As you feel more comfortable with gardening, dig more beds but always keep in mind the work you need to do afterward.
Other than that? Have fun. If you aren't having fun doing it, try something new - make your beds round, or spiral; try a funky new plant or an old plant but grow it in a new way; add something interest8ing from a seed catalog that you haven't tried before; try one of the differently colored varieties (I'm trying some purple beans and adding zinnias to my beds.).
Make sure to mix flowers in your beds/growing plans. They'll attract pollinators and being someplace pretty is good for you, too!
Love this. Thanks for another educational video.
Great information! Let’s all be prepared! Blessings!
Terrific list. I grow all of them. But I do grow lots of potatoes, 16 different types actually. This show is absolutely amazing. Gardener Scott is an encyclopedia. Thank you Sir !
A super informative video. Thanks!
Gardener Scott,You Rock,thanks for another informative and interesting video. I appreciate it !
in early human settlements the "beets" were sown so closely together that we think they were mostly grown for their greens (which was a long standing traditional dish in my home region here in germany: rübstiel)
Great idea for a video and very useful content!
Thank you! I'm in Northern west Montana. Zone 4 timely messages today as I sort seeds from last year to see what heritage varieties I need to buy.
Wonderful, pertinent video Scott.
Thank you for a great video. Informative and thoughtful.💕
I'm in a different climate from you, low desert. So I love to grow sweet potatoes (year round), tomatoes, and peppers. I also have orange and fig trees that produce plus some younger fruit trees. Also strawberries.
I plan to grow zucchini and carrots soon and will plant spinach this autumn.
Haven't yet tried peas and beans, but your video inspired me to try them too.
Very good info. Thank you !
WOW! So cool to find out you are in Colorado.
Thanks for the wisdom! We are gonna need it…
Bravo! We all need mentors!!!
i do not have a green thumb, but have gained confidence from your teachings. i recently stumbled on your videos looking to start a survival garden due to the current political climate. this and fermenting for your own fuel will be so valuable in a few months. thank you
Excellent - and timely - information.
This is how I have organized crops and Diet, just some examples..
Meat, Tato, Spices
Grains, Beans
Curbits, Nightshades, Cole, Taps
Vegetal
Meat - Beast, Fowl, Fish
Tato - Breadfruit, Plaintain, Yam, Taro, Cassava, Sweet Potato, Potato, Dazo, Wapato, Anchote, Ulluco, Oca, Mashua, Crosne, Yacon, Sunchoke, Dahlia
Spices - Bloodroot (Australia spice), Allium, Piper, Zinger, Mustard/Wasabi/Horseradish, Chili, Tasmanian, Szechuan, Peppermint,
Grains - Maize, Wheat, Rice, Quinoa,
Beans - Common, Mung, Lupin, Lentil, Fava, Soy, Pea, Chickpea, Pigeon Pea, Velvet, Horsegram
Curbits - Butternut, Pattypan, Cucumber, Chayote, Caigua,
Nightshade - Eggplant, Tomato, Physalis, Tamarillo
Taps - [Salsify, Burdock, Chicory,] [Carrot, Parsnip, Parsley, Chervil, ]
Vegetal - Bean Pod, Okra Pod, Rat's Tail Radish Pod, Asparagus, Fiddlehead
Loved this episode only wish you would have listed them in the description so we could take a snap shot to save for future refrence. Great content and enjoyed watching!
Thank You , G Scott.
Very informative for these times...hi from Barbados 🇧🇧
I would add sunflowers to this list. Very easy to grow, you can make both oil and flour out of them. And similarly to corn, they can also serve as a trellis to other plants.
This year I am going to find out if they can trellis cucumbers. Not on purpose. But because the vine cakes are going to be near them and will over grow everything.
And you can eat their seeds.
Yes, and you can sprout the seeds for a fresh salad in the winter.
@@DahVoozel our cucumbers vined right up my sunflowers last year. I couldn't reach some of them. 😂 I got the ladder out to harvest cucumbers.
Sunflowers are good but make sure their roots are at least 12 inches away from all other seeds planted otherwise they neither will do well except for planting other sunflowers next to each other. Sunflowers like marigolds put out something in their roots that NO PLANTS like or can stand, it stunts them. Hope this helps you all. ;)
When growing beets and turnips make sure you cook the greens, they are delicious!
+1 on sweet potato leaves. Very prolific and tasty cooked or raw
Great list! I’m I zone 9B and growing a purple variety of sweet potato slips now. I still have a couple of tasty winter squash stored from last year’s small crop and will do more this year. I really wish I had room for corn, but will plant all I can. With food prices going up significantly, I will be planting more this year. No better time for a vegetable garden than now!!
I did purple sweet potatoes last year and they came out ok. I’m not doing them again. I’ll do regular sweet potatoes.
Helpful. I learned several things.. Thank you. Blessings.
Good choices! I would add radishes. Now that I've learned to cook them in stews and soups with turnips, rutabaga, parsnips, potatoes, and carrots, I see them as a nutritious, delicious, and fast-growing crop. Plus, the greens make them a two-crop vitamin-rich plant. Garlic, herbs, and onions are a must-have to make everything else taste better, as you can put them in any spot available.
16:45 I just knew a bird smoked the window but it was snow falling lol awesome video love it
Have to say I'm always skeptical when I see videos titled like this, but your's was very good. Excellent advice.
Lots of valuable information here. I live in the North Florida Panhandle, Zone 8b, and while much of what your growing does well here, out growing situation is quite different. Our humidity levels a much higher, and our growing season is pretty much year 'round. We also have weed, disease and bug pressure here caused by the high humidity, as many of these problems are alleviated by your much colder weather. When I moved from Virginia to Florida, I pretty much had to learn gardening all over again.
I grow pretty much what you do. I preserve everything I possibly can by canning, dehydrating and freezing. I can seasonal vegetables and save most of the freezer space for meat. After a hurricane our power can be out for weeks, so I can meats as they thaw.
Peppers grow well here, and they are prime candidates for dehydrating. By dehydrating peppers, onions, celery and cabbage I can save a lot of valuable storage space. I would think this would work well for you, too.
Fermenting is also a good way to do many vegetables
Great list! For me the ability to store threw the winter is key. Spring, summer and autumn i can forage alot of things in the wild. In Sweden no matter who owns the forest you have the right to enjoy it forage berries and so on. So the winter is the main struggle for me. Early in spring there is dandelions for example you can eat the whole plant even the taproot and they are very early in the season, i actually use the yellow blossoms regularly in sallads their def not that bad, the leaves and stalks are quite bitter but still edible so in a survival situation is an awesome weed. Stinging nettle is another great weed that is actually very nutritious, young tender leaves is best as the older bigger leaves is quite high in nitrogen. Just some examples thats readily available to me early in spring. Learn the wild plants in your area that you can eat, most may not become your fav food but in a survival situation can be great.
So in my opinion learning the wild edible plants in your area is a good thing and great compliment to your own garden, specially if your not prepared when shit hits the fan.. Expect the best, prepare for the worst!
Another thing that might be good to know is how to store things under ground, here in Sweden and i guess many other cold regions of the world thats how they stored many crops during the winter. So learning that could be a grest thing to do also, because if somethong bad happens you perhaps cant expect to have electrocity for your fridge.
I have been cultivating a section of wild plants in my garden for years. I n winter (mild here) we enjoy stinging nettle, sow thistle, wild arugula, wild mustard and a few others along with domestic greens I grow. With spring coming, nettles and mustards are going to seeds. I prolong the season by careful pruning giving plants that got too big and tough to the chickens. Chickweed is starting to proliferate and I see purslane andf some others coming up.
my favorite wild plants to harvest from here in germany:
1. strawberry
2. blueberry
3. blackberry
4. raspberry
5. cloudberry
6. elderberry
7. burning nettle
8. ramson
9. sorrel
10. red clover
11. mossberry
12. wild carrot
Dandelions n stinging nettle, both of which I have tons of: r what I feed goats with not humans.
Hi G Scott, I grow onions . The bunching onions all year round in my area. Great content. Blessings🙏🏻
Butternut squash is delicious and nutritional. Sure stores well.
Super helpful, thank you.
Loved this video. I will be coming back to this if reference! I am also a subscriber! You rock!
Great video. Very timely
love turnips n beets..good video..I like eating the peas in their pods too! cheers from Australia!😁
Great content. Watching this vide, I realise Theneed to diversify more. I' will surely grow beans for their rich nutritional value. I grow tomatoes and kale already. Thanks for your work.
such an important video, thanks so much!