It sounds like potatoes and carrots are locked in! I never knew about growing carrots under a board until now - I had to research it but it's great advice!
When green vegetable would you recommend other than broccoli for nutrients, given broccoli sounds tricky?
Can you name any other important, nutritious vegetable that is relatively easy to grow for people interested in prepping?
Make sure to keep an eye on those carrots, you'll want to remove that board as soon as they are emerging from the soil as baby leaves to they get sunlight. Check every day after 5 days I'd say, but be ready to wait as long as 10.
Kale and Swiss chard are very easy to grow and nutritious for sure. Spinach is a good one but takes more seed to get a volume of food from.
The best nutrition comes from wild plants. So learn about chickweed which is out now, lambs quarters, and amaranth as I've seen commented on this thread.
Canning, pickling, and fermenting will keep your food preserved for months so make sure your growing some tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, cabbage, green beans and peas to put up.
Snap peas and green beans are easy, cucumbers are easy. Green leaf lettuce/romaine is like growing grass. Good choice. Potatoes take forever and need a lot of space, or deep deep pots. If not you’ll end up with baby potatoes.
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It sounds like potatoes and carrots are locked in! I never knew about growing carrots under a board until now - I had to research it but it's great advice!
When green vegetable would you recommend other than broccoli for nutrients, given broccoli sounds tricky?
Can you name any other important, nutritious vegetable that is relatively easy to grow for people interested in prepping?
Make sure to keep an eye on those carrots, you'll want to remove that board as soon as they are emerging from the soil as baby leaves to they get sunlight. Check every day after 5 days I'd say, but be ready to wait as long as 10.
Kale and Swiss chard are very easy to grow and nutritious for sure. Spinach is a good one but takes more seed to get a volume of food from.
The best nutrition comes from wild plants. So learn about chickweed which is out now, lambs quarters, and amaranth as I've seen commented on this thread.
Canning, pickling, and fermenting will keep your food preserved for months so make sure your growing some tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, cabbage, green beans and peas to put up.
Snap peas and green beans are easy, cucumbers are easy. Green leaf lettuce/romaine is like growing grass. Good choice. Potatoes take forever and need a lot of space, or deep deep pots. If not you’ll end up with baby potatoes.