[Ellendra]

I don’t think people realize how big a garden one needs to provide for a family of four until the next harvest. Most everything grown in a garden are low in calories and you’ll have to eat a lot of garden produce in order to survive.

And the first-time gardeners also might not know how to choose things that will be easy to store. Winter squash, for example, would fit the bill for calories. And if you choose the right variety it can store for months just stacked in a corner. But it has to be the right kind.

[Armscor38]

One of the criteria I have in deciding what to grow in my garden is if the produce is easily store-able by canning, fermenting, freezing, dehydrating or has a long shelf life in the right conditions. Something like winter squash can be stored in the basement of my other house where the temperature is kept at 40 degrees during the winter.