What can you teach us about growing the basics for self sufficiency like potatoes, carrots, corn, broccoli? Are those the crops you'd recommend?
Would it be viable to use city parkland as farmland (assuming it was a community effort that was also protected by the community from joggers) after the SHTF?
Ha ha ha, I was hoping for advice like this because sweet potatoes are awesome, delicious and nutritious.
Can you share any more advice about growing sweet potatoes? Do they suffer from any diseases that can be easily cured? Do they produce a similar yield as regular potatoes?
Every once in awhile Ill dig up a rotten sweet potatoe.
Worms are more of an issue, but if you have a ton, they can't get them all. Also, most blemishes can be cut off.
Just make sure to have pleanty of space for them. Like their own 8 x 8 garden bed. Hight of the summer is when theyre at their sweetest, but I wait till fall cus its hot for digging and Im not big on sweet lol
I find regular potatoes don't do as well for me. They grow more like a bush and all the potatoes are under one bush. They're also more suseptible to being sickly and pest
So they are best grown in a pot. Like, their own 5 gallon pot where they can be managed a bit more. Also their leaves aren't edible.
When you harvest there will be a bunch of tiny little sweet/reg/potatoes. Just replant those for the following year.
What can you teach us about growing the basics for self sufficiency like potatoes, carrots, corn, broccoli? Are those the crops you'd recommend?
Would it be viable to use city parkland as farmland (assuming it was a community effort that was also protected by the community from joggers) after the SHTF?
Sweet potatoes.
Omg, they take over. I let them grow into my yard and mow them with the lawn mower and it doesnt phase them one bit.
They make a nice vine and pretty flowers so a fence would be a good place to plant the..
You can eat the leaves too. Has to be cooked a bit but good. Kinda like spinach.
I had a huge harvest last year. I just buy Sweet potatoes from the grocery store and plant all different kinds. Whatever works.
Ha ha ha, I was hoping for advice like this because sweet potatoes are awesome, delicious and nutritious.
Can you share any more advice about growing sweet potatoes? Do they suffer from any diseases that can be easily cured? Do they produce a similar yield as regular potatoes?
Every once in awhile Ill dig up a rotten sweet potatoe.
Worms are more of an issue, but if you have a ton, they can't get them all. Also, most blemishes can be cut off.
Just make sure to have pleanty of space for them. Like their own 8 x 8 garden bed. Hight of the summer is when theyre at their sweetest, but I wait till fall cus its hot for digging and Im not big on sweet lol
I find regular potatoes don't do as well for me. They grow more like a bush and all the potatoes are under one bush. They're also more suseptible to being sickly and pest
So they are best grown in a pot. Like, their own 5 gallon pot where they can be managed a bit more. Also their leaves aren't edible.
When you harvest there will be a bunch of tiny little sweet/reg/potatoes. Just replant those for the following year.
Edit: 5 gallon pot is fine. Idk why I said 10 lol