Posted on 05/15/2022 2:54:06 PM PDT by orsonwb
Survival garden. You will have eaten the deer and can make scarecrows, possibly from remains of two legged critter who tried to steal your food. ;)
Okra
Summer squash or any squash
Green beans
Purple hull or black eye peas
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Peppers
Melon for variety and cover
Fall gardens dont do well hete because it is so dry and hot when it is time to plant them
Sweet potatoes take a long time to grow
“They’re posted every Saturday morning and ‘Diana in Wisconsin’ who runs the weekly thread can add you to a list so you get a ping for every new”
Read it like a religion. Just moved about a year ago from Central Texas to the Coastal Bend. Thought growing things in Cen Tx was tuff. This maybe harder. I seem to have every species of Ant, Fire, Leaf Cutter, Wood Ant, Solitary Ant, 200 ant small colony black ones. So far peppers Jalapeno, Serrano, Bell etc. are immune to the ants. Tomatoes work ok. Should be able to do Okra (with all the cotton just a few miles North) but so far not doing well.
“They’re posted every Saturday morning and ‘Diana in Wisconsin’ who runs the weekly thread can add you to a list so you get a ping for every new”
Read it like a religion. Just moved about a year ago from Central Texas to the Coastal Bend. Thought growing things in Cen Tx was tuff. This maybe harder. I seem to have every species of Ant, Fire, Leaf Cutter, Wood Ant, Solitary Ant, 200 ant small colony black ones. So far peppers Jalapeno, Serrano, Bell etc. are immune to the ants. Tomatoes work ok. Should be able to do Okra (with all the cotton just a few miles North) but so far not doing well.
Add watermelon if climate ok...and acorn squash, and cantaloupe...
Trying to be a hip youtuber. They make pretty good money from silly people by acting silly themselves.
When I had a vegetable garden, I always raised regular tomatoes. But one year there was a bush of cherry tomatoes there. And the biggest, best ones I’ve ever had. AND I DIDN”T plant it. An animal took a seed from the compost pile???
BTTT.
Our Swiss chard shriveled up and died.
Will try, again, in our new raised beds.
In other words, the same things our parents and grand parents grew back in 1942.
Beets are awesome. Growing up all I experienced were the gross canned beets my grandparents forced on us. I didn’t even know what a beet was until I was an adult. After befriending eastern European friends and living there I absolutely love them. Shuba (Ukrainian) Barscz Cerwany (Polish), Kvass. And fermenting them is delightful. Cut some in wuarter inch thick slices, oil salt, and pepper and throw them on the bbq. And there are other beets beside the plain red beat. Golden beets. White Beets. Good stuff.
Sounds like moved back to Poland. Except the tomatoes not a long enough season. And who ever thought kale was food?
"Root crops can be good storing veggies."
I dont plan on watching the video and apologize if this is what he referred to...
Black Spanish Radish. Easy to grow, ugly as hell. Can eat them fresh when small and can be left to grow large then stored for later cooking during the winter.
My list:
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Carrots
Peas
Parsley
Sunflowers
Sesame
Winter squash
Corn
Sweet Potatoes
Beans
Cow-peas
Chickpeas
Basil
Oregano
Garlic
Melons
Beets
Berries
Grains
You could survive on the first 7 on this list, plus milk, eggs, and meat. But the rest make it more enjoyable. Feel free to substitute anything you like.
Anybody doesn’t put Jerusalem artichokes on a list of top survival crops is an idiot. It’s a hi-cal food source that’s almost impossible to kill.
No corn on the list but he’s got carrots and peas. Carrots, corn and peas have been “companion crops” for thousands of years.
I’m not a beets eater, so thx for education.
Yeah Corn was a staple for ancient native Americans.
Yet I should have done a quick search and supplied a link to a page one can read on 50 Essential Crops to Grow in Your Survival Garden
What about Swiss Chard? Survives most MA Winters.
I also grow beets primarily for the leaves.
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