Which high-calorie survival crop is best for your garden? Today we share how to find easy-to-grow plants that will keep you full.
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Potatoes? Cassava? Yams? Sweet potatoes? Pumpkins? Let’s take a look at growing a survival food supply in your garden that does well with your climate and soil!
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If it's japanese knotweed, the world can be fat and merry.
Geez! I love you to death but what is with the blair witch project camera work?
I'm in a good grow zone but have garbage dirt.. working on it, a little at a time.
Southern yellow pine seems to do well.. rhizome grass is happy here and those sand spurs.. prickers.. whatever they're called are everywhere.
My little animal of choice is ducks.. best eggs for baking and really entertaining little buggers. If you don't mind noise, guinea birds are a good pairing for the ducks and they take care of bugs.. even love bugs. during love bug season, when we had guineas in the early 2000s.. roof stampedes were common.
local ethnic market.. Bwhahaha.. the only local market of any kind here is dollar general… and really doesn't qualify as a food market.
Where do i have to move to make Bitcoin grow?
Great advice!
Since i moved to zone 11 Australia to start my garden I've basically looked around the globe at places near my growing zone and collected as many of each place's staple foods as i can. Now i have a giant collection of staple foods that grow high calorie crops with little to no effort. For me here, that's cassava, taro, sweet potato, plantains, water chestnuts, Qld arrowroot, grain corn, jarrahdale pumpkins, amaranth, quinoa, chia, pidgeon peas, bamboo, nopales, potatoes in the winter, and probably some more that I'm forgetting
Cherokee Tan pumpkin both bug and drought tolerant. Amazing crop for those with a longer growing season, definitely let them grow on the ground for maximum production.
Lambquarters plants
Trying to adjust to practically freezing still up here in the north!! Adjustingvwhat to grow and when. There is no planting in ground yet…still talking to locals. Thank you, great to listen to what others did/do!
Yellow yam is probably moutain yams.
Well done.
No to brassicas!!! I did not even hear of things like kale until I was halfway through my life….thank goodness. Cabbage is grown here, but blackeyed peas and cornbread are the bomb! (And sweet potatoes and regular potatoes.š
I'm favoured, $230K every 4weeks! My life has totally changed i can now afford anything and also support God's work around me and my society.
Hmmmhmm…I love me some French fried taters and biscuits with mustard. I reckon…
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What a great video! May God bless you brother.
I am so happy you are where you are today. It's been a long journey.
Thanks David… you're the best.
I have been learning about native perennial crops in my part of the world. American ground nut for example. Learn what native Americans grew and ate in your area. Why reinvent the wheel.
Farmers often grow what is the most profitable, not what actually grows best. Also those crops may need chemicals and fertilizers not generally available to the public. The field in front of my north Florida home has been in potatoes almost continuously for 100 years, 25 when it was mine. Despite knowing how to grow them I do not get much from my garden, many of the vines die early and the potatoes under them rot. I no longer have a restricted pesticide license and can not buy those and the expense would be prohibitive for just a few fresh potatoes. Much easier to "obtain" them by walking a few yards past my driveway.
is it comfrey?
Anyone have Any advice for 6b clay soil, we.koved here and I have always had sandy loam and I don't seem to be able to grow squat well now.
Having just started on YT, I have a HUGE APPRECIATION for the quality of info you put into 1 take š
It was great to get to meet you yesterday!! May your thumbs always be Brown!!ššæ
If you're in Florida , the only survival crop you need is Jerusalem artichoke. It provides all the animals fats, micronutrients, protein, fiber, animal feed, building materials, self defense, and moral support you could ever want from a sentient plant friend.
Finally someone willing to say that 3 sister's is just "meh" I tried it for several seasons but am not a fan and am discontinuing my attempts this season
David, please, are you getting LOTS of chemtrails there? I am just due west of you in MS and get them almost daily for years now. They are blocking the sun and are doing bad things for my garden. What say you? Love you and family.
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Excellent! Talk to people in TX. They can tell you that lights out comes without notice. I like the art vids, & lately my pupils dilate at grafting vids. You did good here. All gardening is local gardening. My resource-adequate gardening today is practice for resource-poor gardening tomorrow. Just build your experience. Right now.
Is it… comfrey?
Is it Zucchini? š It's Zucchini, isn't it.
David, you are asking the right questions to help people think about what they could be doing. Turnips, eat the roots, and feed the greens to your animals. Beets, same idea. Oats have a great nutritional balance. Easy to grow in many areas. Where I am now it is citrus, avocados, chard, tomatoes, peppers, squash, chickens, etc. I stockpile what is inexpensive that I have trouble growing. Plan ahead and things will work out.
Question. What is a popcorn tree?
Discover YOUR Garden!
Do you also have to deal with jumping worms?
I'm moving into more butternut squash, pumpkins, candy squash, sweet potatoes and reg potatoes for storage and multiple uses.
Hard to survive on lettuce.
I live in Kentucky, zone 6/6b. Rocky clay soil is an issue for me. So, I've resorted to pots and raised beds. For survival, I'm trying sweet potatoes and squash and zucchini. I've still got some time and room and might get some Brussels Sprouts, carrots, and radishes going (all of which are good nutritious survival foods).
Good word, David!
My area was known for commercial fig growing, the town next to us is named "Pearland" because they grew pears. And across the freeway that city has the annual strawberry festival, because that's what they were known for. But what foods they grew all year long I'd love to investigate. Good ideas, DTG.
Sweet potatoes!!! They love it here in 8b, cassava, beauty berry, but everything I know I learned from "David the good" š
I live in a subtropical place but potatoes grow well here. They are just growing everywhere in my garden.
Cool video, thanks!
Well itās looking like sweet potatoes ..black eyed peasā¦ collards ..okra ā¦berriesā¦well itās a startā¦stay blessed David
When I was in my 20's I moved to a different area, different soil, different zone than I had grown up gardening in. My Daddy told me to go to a feed store and watch for someone buying seed and or bedding plants and ask them what they grow in their gardens. I met some really nice gardeners that were very happy to share their knowledge.
Breadfruit gungo ackee yams and avocados with spicy peppers n im good
I accidentally did 3 sisters one year. I had never heard of the principle before then. It turned out great. I've never been able to intentionally duplicate those good results however! Of course.
Excellent
T y, DtG!