Don’t get me wrong, doesn’t hurt to have 50lbs of taters in the ground.
But the folks who think they can in a week or two grow a garden salad and that’s enough to keep them going for a month are plain crazy.
For one thing, most veggies are very low on the protein scale.
Invest in 100 lbs of rice and seal it up!
Another thing is that many veggies we grow for the roots have edible greens. Beet greens are way up there on the vitamin and nutrition scale. Radish and carrot greens are quite edible. And don’t forget the dandelions!
Gardens are fine, but when it comes to real survival, in real bad times, can food and water is king.
It’s can keep armies fighting and surviving for a period of *years*.