The “T” Italian squash has to be 8 feet long now and has dropped so it's growing downward from the top since it ran out of plastic rods to hang onto to continue to heaven. No blossoms.
The little cherry tomato I bought (mainly to have the neat container), has that healthy looking one tomato on it that is already plenty large for a cherry tomato and today I see blossoms opening at other places. But, I did not grow this plant so will not take credit for the tomatoes that grow on there.
Still no flowers on tomatoes but I did move them more into the sun.
Pods are still growing on Sesame plant and there are new blossoms.
I'm thinking above survival food and the space I have in the garden/on the deck:
I can grow that “T” squash of that I'm certain because I have that big one and the baby one is growing fast. That squash can be eaten most of the year because it's spring and summer and fall squash. Plant a number of them
Surely, I can grow tomatoes, pick one that ripens early, one mid-summer and one for fall, and plant numerous ones of those types when they should be planted.
Walking onions don't die out. That's onions to have with squash and tomatoes.
Grow Deck Corn, staggered through the summer: That's corn, squash, onion, tomato. I have stored cornmeal and baking powder and baking soda and powdered eggs.
How about cornbread, corn, onion, tomato, and squash for survival food every year?
A dwarf fruit tree would provide fruit. Also Blackberries, hmm, right now I can't remember if those are perennial, I think they are.
Guess I need to throw in lettuce because I am growing that now from the seeds I sprouted under the grow lamp. I can grow lettuce.
Really, if I concentrated on the above groups, I could feed two or maybe three people if that was the only food available to eat. I would need to refine that list as to when to plant on a continuing basis to be sure I had some of each growing all the time.
I can't figure out how to have potatoes because I would have to buy seed potatoes and I couldn't in a survival situation. If I can get some of the sunflower tuber plants, those could provide “potatoes”.
/johnny
You need a good protein source, so maybe add some pinto beans to go with the cornbread.