In this video, I give you my 6 TOP CROPS to grow at home in the vegetable garden to save you from starving!
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Never underestimate the value of herbs and spices in a survival situation. Those potatoes will get real bland after a few weeks, and mental health is invaluable
Plus you got you watch they going after our fruits and vegetables and spraying or gmo adding the mrna crap in tbe fruits and vegetables plus here in usa they stop growi g seedless watermelon so we cant grow them
Nice video. Personally if I had to pick 6, I would trade corn for sorghum instead. Higher in nutritional value, needs much less water and can also make grits, popcorn (popsorghum), flour, and sorghum molasses. I agree with your other 5. Although I would try to get Sweet Potato in as well.
I don't really care for pumpkin – pumpkin pie, pumpkin roll, pumpkin latte, etc. until I found a pioneer recipe. Pumpkin and onions. Take a pumpkin, remove the seeds and pulp. Cut it into bite sized pieces. Cut a large onion or a few small ones into a large dice. Spread both on a cookie sheet. Spray with vegetable oil. (The pioneers used lard!) Drizzle real maple syrup on. Salt and pepper to taste. Mix to coat all the pieces. (Clean fingers work best.) Bake stirring occasionally until the pumpkin is soft and the onions have caramelized. The higher the oven temperature, the more frequent the stirring.
1. Potato 2. Corn 3. Cabbage 4. Pumpkin 5. Beans 6. Tomatoes
In more northern climates – sugar beets are good also. Chop them up, boil them, take the water and let it evaporate and you’ll have sugar left over. About 20% of the sugar beet, by weight, will be left as sugar. One sugar beet is about 1 pound.
Thank you 👍🏾
I made a small list of stuff that would be nice to have on your land/garden;
Cucumbers
Sugar cane
Tomatoes
Cabbage
Potatoes
Zucchini
Pumpkin
Beans
Corn
Blackberries
Raspberries
Mulberries
Mushrooms
Chickens
Goats
Pigs
"Cowboy toilet paper"
Indian soap root
Chinese lettuce
Sour clover
Chamomile
Anise
Maybe some local trees and plants you can forage as well, acorns, pine cones, etc.
Keep it clean!!
I think there's 2 or 3 really underestimated vegetables. Snap peas and grow really fast. I just literally got a raised bed filled it with snappies
And then within, like, 2 months time, they're almost full grown. And i've got over sixty plants right now that will eventually yield a full bounty
Also I realize that radishes can be grown In about a month's time, if you look at some of the packages, most radishes will say that they grow in like, thirty days, so that's a huge flip
I'm getting into that because my mom really loves radishes I'm growing about forty or fifty radish plants right now
Really late this season it's about july Just after the fourth but In two weeks or so, my mom should be here for a big, old ratish Harvest
I live in a small town. And I wanted to be able to garden to be able to provide for myself I learned to garden from some of your videos and many other people that I watch actually really love your videos
You inspired me to become quite the gardener
If I could show you pictures of my garden I would
I've got about twenty seven cucumber plants right now
I probably have about Sixty snap peas right now Plants I mean
I have about 20 or so green beans and I got about 80 radish plants on the way. I don't know, I just took a bunch of packets and planted them all
I've also started to do a lot of tomatoes and pepper plants probably have about 15 to 20 pepper plants. Right now that have sprouted
I also have about fifteen basil plants and about eight or nine Oregano plants
I watched a lot of different YouTube errors and different influencers that grow stuff. I think if people just applied themselves they'd be really surprised on how easy it is to have renewable food, we need to be able to take food and grow it seeds and grow them instead of relying on markets, I'm so tired of eating food with chemicals in it. And it's because of videos like yours and other youtubers such as yourself. And I watch about 8 different YouTube ers right now. And a couple different people on different platforms
Any tips that You have are wonderful and I always welcome them
I have a lot of people that said that what i've done so far has been great, and they can't believe the amount of progress i've had There's a lot of rain I live
I don't even have to bother trying to collect rain
Which is awesome
I'm a small town kid from Ohio. And i've managed to probably plant well Over a hundred and eighty plants
All of which I did almost entirely by myself
I will say that I did not like p starters
I got some a couple months ago and I started all my my first set of plants and some pea starters. And I lost almost everything do the mold
I was really discouraged but I kept going and I managed to get a lot of progress
I tell everyone do not use p starters
Because you can overwater them way too fast
I don't like those at all
I have a couple people around my town
How to get their gardens going
I've been directing them to your content
I've also been trying to give out a couple plants
Cause I have too much.
I dont normally leave comments. I Lov your video,but your information on the Irish famine is incorrect..yes the potatos failed because of blight,bt our people were slowly starved. Look into the political situation at the time. Blight affected potatoes all over Europe ,but only ireland fell to so call famine. We wouldn't call it famine,genocide is a better word for it.
Thanks for the tips. A coconut tree is also good to have. Why because you can drink the water you can make coconut milk, coconut oil and coconut palm sugar 😊
Love your sense of humour!
Great video as always 😀
Also, use a little black pepper to stop the flatulence.
Lastly, after eating a meal that will usually leave one gassy, remember to take a couple charcoal pills. No flatulence 😊
Great ideas. As I watch his show, I pick up an idea or two and my garden grows. More vegetables, more plots, more to eat. It's fun.
It’s best if you could plant there some mangos 🥭 😊
🙏🏼Amen🙏🏼 God is so good, all the time🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
Beetroot
We eat pumpkin leaves in southafrica
You actually should plant a stalked vegetable with bean/ect vines and melons all together one makes fruit and acts a a pole one climbs the pole and melons keep the ground covered n weeds away. Think smart
Lobe watching your stuff, funny bloke!
Mark, get some new jersey beefsteak tomatoes,out of this world tasting. Tomato sandwiches !!!
Great video and inspiring! One thing I've noticed helps reduce feeling gassy when eating legumes is to throw in some chopped cabbage into the dish, for some reason it really helps to digest it without the flatulence.
Oh dear not sounding too well. hope all is ok. maybe more garlic needed. stay safe
The comment alone about the only thing going down is the IQ of politicians, made me like this video. Enjoyed the video.
I live in an apartment so looking at a mini garden.
legend
Rule number one: be rich enough or just lucky enough to have a huge backyard like that guy.
Hahaha the politician jokes. You are a legend mate cheers
I suggest Asparagus – because it grows fast; it’s a perennial; it can grow in pots; and also because it’s indigenous to southern Ontario where I'm from and can typically walk outside in any field to harvest them. Although low in calories Asparagus are a great source of nutrients, including fiber, folate and vitamins A, C and K.
Question: hydroponic vs soil? Or both?
Fantastic video! I'm with you all the way! BUT…let's be clear… government and politicians DO NOT have low IQs! Them bastards know EXACTLY what they're doing!
Scallions use the butts from a bunch from the store. Plant the butts in your garden…lol. They are cut and come again. And a quick crop.
You are doing great work. It’s my hope that one day this video will be played in all schools. Thank you!
"Kimichi"
At least a nod towards foraging – there are lots of delicious and nutritious "weeds" that can save you from starving.
Another thing the Irish didn't know is that while they starved the government was exporting food. Gotta love politicians
im shocked sunchoke artichokes werent on here
Capsicum is high in vitamin c and onions will help your potatoes flavour.
Excellent…wow..greetings from Colombia …the Best for You ..and thanks for sharing your experience …. Fernando Rodríguez
Sweet potatoes
i hate to see common sense sounds like genius .
Sad times really, but you're here to saave the day .
You seems a great lad, cheers.
I put my home grown tomatoes in a fruit salad. Delicious.
Sweet potatoes are excellent nutritionally but you need warm weather.
Sunchoke is definitly missing in this list. Its easy to grow, easy overwintering and it provides big harvests with minimal effort.
Bro I thought I was informational but this guy knows a lot lol I laughed when he said kfc uses cabbage in there sandwiches 😂😂 he like terminator human
How easy are dates to grow? Even tho i dont think many people will like having date trees in theiir homes 😅
I appreciate this video. I have so much to learn about growing and storing my own food, but that's no excuse to not start learning.
I want to grab some friends and play Don’t Starve Together now…
Peas turnips beets kolrabi rubarb strawberries blueberries fruit trees apple pear plums oranges peaches cherries figs nuts sweet potatoes yams … Oh there are so many more creamed baby potatoes Baby carrots and peas was a great summer y😅me dish with my first husband family spinach salad sprinkled with sugar yummy the only thing that one would actually have to buy is the sugars and flours but there are some food sources that one can get flower.. love the lil joking you put with in the video …