If you do not have a plot of land... forget about pots. Pots and soil are expensive. Invest that money in canned food. Lots of it. It lasts 20 years easily.
I've probably got a years supply or better of canned veggies. I'm hoping I have enough dry beans and rice to sustain us for another year if needed. God be with us all.
Check out guerilla gardening, planting crops on public or little used land. If you walk your neighborhood (basic osint), you will likely find multiple out of the way spots where you could plant. Pick root & tuber crops like potatoes, yams, turnips, carrots, sunchokes, groundnuts, etc. that show nothing but greens above ground. Plant in random groupings not rows and let them do their thing. Even if you only get yield from one thing, it will be fresh and a great offset to canned. And I am pro canned too.
I'm not against canned food, but get a couple of pots not a crazy expense and a bag of potting mix which you can amend going forward with coffee ground, tea grounds, egg shells, veggie scraps etc then you know first if you have a green thumb and can grow and secondly you know what's been done to your food. Someday your canned food will run out. This may not be for you but for someone else.
We use blue water barrels & tubs used for feeding cattle. Made wicking pots. Put large PVC pipe in the bottom. You only fill pot about half way with dirt. Use heavy duty landscape fabric to hold dirt.
We got the idea for a guy on YouTube. We used a PVC in the bottom instead of the tube he used. This guy says he never changes soil. Had trees in pot
10-20 years.
If you do not have a plot of land... forget about pots. Pots and soil are expensive. Invest that money in canned food. Lots of it. It lasts 20 years easily.
I've probably got a years supply or better of canned veggies. I'm hoping I have enough dry beans and rice to sustain us for another year if needed. God be with us all.
Check out guerilla gardening, planting crops on public or little used land. If you walk your neighborhood (basic osint), you will likely find multiple out of the way spots where you could plant. Pick root & tuber crops like potatoes, yams, turnips, carrots, sunchokes, groundnuts, etc. that show nothing but greens above ground. Plant in random groupings not rows and let them do their thing. Even if you only get yield from one thing, it will be fresh and a great offset to canned. And I am pro canned too.
I'm not against canned food, but get a couple of pots not a crazy expense and a bag of potting mix which you can amend going forward with coffee ground, tea grounds, egg shells, veggie scraps etc then you know first if you have a green thumb and can grow and secondly you know what's been done to your food. Someday your canned food will run out. This may not be for you but for someone else.
We use blue water barrels & tubs used for feeding cattle. Made wicking pots. Put large PVC pipe in the bottom. You only fill pot about half way with dirt. Use heavy duty landscape fabric to hold dirt. We got the idea for a guy on YouTube. We used a PVC in the bottom instead of the tube he used. This guy says he never changes soil. Had trees in pot 10-20 years.
Gardening By Leon
https://youtube.com/channel/UCSDYs9sd2_BlLuWSiEr7TJQ
Really you only need a year, by the next year you can grow/hunt more food.