If the food shortage hits this fall and winter, you need crops that can survive in cold weather unless you live in a really warm zone like California or Florida. There are some things you can grow in winter, mostly very hardy greens like kale. I kept kale plants going all winter (zone 6, that winter temps went down into single digits) by using an old 55 gallon fish tank over them.
Fall crops should have been planted before now in order to harvest before it gets cold enough to kill them back. This guy lists some cold hardy things to try but you have to start now with good sized plants (try Lowes and other garden centers.)
Making mini greenhouses with hoops and thick plastic and good layers of mulch will help.
Farmers markets are AWESOME. I used to grow my own green beans to can each summer. Not anymore. I get all the beans i need from the farmers market without spending hours and hours planting, weeding, picking. Nope. Fuk that. Canned up 36 jars of beans we got from out farmers mkt this weekend for $75. 8gal of family farm raised beans for $75. Yeah … Im doing that from now on. I use that soil for san marzanos now.
We have a terrific orchard nearby that has a store where you can get, in addition to bags or bushels of apples and peaches, pumpkins, gourds, squash, corn, shelled lima beans (I love you, bean lady!), cabbage, heirloom tomatoes all grown locally. I don't can much of anything any more, I freeze or dry. I got myself a nice, big dehydrator last year. They also sell the best tomato plants I've ever bought, lots of heirloom varieties, grown by a local farmer. Meats and cheeses from a couple of local farms. They sell some canned items they do themselves including a peach habanero salsa that the spicier the better fan here loves.
It's one of several nice farm stores but there are a couple that are buying the same tasteless stuff the grocery stores sell.
I really believe everybody who has any space at all should get a bushel or more of a good keeper apple, wrap each apple in a piece of newspaper and store them in wooden bins (the best) or even newspaper lined cardboard boxes in a cool basement or garage where they won't freeze. They'll wither a little but you'll have good apples until spring.
The best way to get a lot of something - apples to beans - is pick your own farms or orchards. My mother and I used to pick a dozen or more bushels of apples every fall, some to store and a lot for the apple butter she and her friends made the old fashioned way in a big iron cauldron outside. I swear the smoke made it taste better. Your state agriculture department should have lists of pick your own places.
I drove through one of the local towns today that had a sign up about a farmer's market once a week with local stuff. I need to check that out. Most of the farmer's markets here peter out because they don't have nice, local produce.
Not more hardy, less. You can grow them in winter but have to plant in late summer. If well grown, they can withstand a few frosts but they will die if they have no protection when the really cold weather hits. Keep in mind in my zone we get lots of very cold temps, down into below zero, every winter. I'm in northwestern Virginia. So a good bit of the country is in my zone or colder.
20s is well below freezing, though. How's your annual rainfall? Even the hardiest stuff will die back or go dormant if it's too cold. You should be able to grow some hardy things with protection, though. Forget tomatoes and potatoes until summer, but kale, corn salad, turnips. Is your soil clay, rocky-sandy or rich loam? If you have good soil and decent rainfall, you should be able to grow lots of hardy things. With protection. Hardy plants hold up better if they're not stressed by drought, lack of fertility. Wet soil can cause root rot in winter in a lot of plants. Did you know if they're calling for frost overnight you can protect plants by covering them overnight - old sheets, cardboard boxes or you can get protective row covers at Lowes for really cheap.
Here's a quote for you:
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. - H. Fred Ale
My 98 yo grandmother didn't fertilize. She composted everything. She had a jar on the floor of the kitchen and every peel she used went back into the soil.
I have two really nice turning compost bins. You can put shredded junk mail in there too. I should add you don't need a fancy bin. For years my compost bin was a circle of chicken wire where I threw grass clippings, potato peels, whatever I had. (No meat or greasy scraps, alternate "green" from vegetables with "brown" grass clips no weeds with seeds, shredded fallen leaves, shredded paper.)
I was kind of surprised that corn made the "Top Six" list, too. Since the gardener/farmer on OP's video included food prep / recipe ideas (in addition to nutritional info), I got the impression that some of his choices may have been at least partially influenced by his food/taste preferences. Potatoes are easy to grow and pretty versatile. I'll have to listen to to the video again and take notes to glean more nutritional info from it.
I doubt the WH would "allow many people to starve to death", as you say, but the DS beasts and their thug squads probably have a slew of nasty tricks up their sleeves to disrupt transportation of goods and a general strategy to destroy people's trust in food sources. There's no low they won't sink to and will, in all probability, be pulling out all the stops between now and year end-EO1Q23 to take as many people down with them as they can. Remember, too, as soon as there's a perceived real food crisis, shelves will be emptied in panic buying and related chaos may ensue. These marxists are sociopaths and psychopaths and they fervently want huge numbers of innocent people suffering and dead. I don't believe that's an overstatement.
Don't know. I would have added spinach to the list myself - easy (for me) to grow, tasty and nutritious. Everyone probably has their own set of crops that grow well for them. Growing up we never had luck with corn and I haven't tried it since. Potatoes are easy to grow so are zucchini imho.
Any good tips /recipes for spaghetti squash that make it store? Maybe YouTubes? I have a lot of squash and I’ve been giving a bit away but want to be prepared
I don’t know of any videos, maybe some else can chime in, I just pick when it’s golden yellow and my finger nail won’t dent it. Make sure it’s free if worm holes. I let them sit in the sun a few days and then just keep them a cool dark place not touching.
You can freeze it too, I think you cook it, let it drain well and freeze it. https://www.wikihow.com/Freeze-Spaghetti-Squash I plan to do this with some squash that is not a good candidate for shelf storing
With tomatoes, there are two major types, determinate and indeterminate. A determinate variety comes off mostly all at one time. This is useful if you need a bunch at one time to can or preserve in other ways. An indeterminate variety has tomatoes during a long period of time up until the vine dies. They don't really know the seasons, so as long as they are warm enough, they'll live and bear. I've had tomatoes on my vines in December. In a greenhouse, they'll live much longer.
The guy was showing how to propagate tomatoes by sticking cuttings in the ground. I've gotten better results by putting cuttings into bottles of water. The hairs on the stems turn into roots. After there are plenty of roots, I then plant them. Since they are clones of the original, you can duplicate hybrids. Hybrid seeds don't reproduce true, if they reproduce at all.
For a person starting out, hybrid tomatoes are the way to go, as they are a more certain bet to actually grow for beginners. You should always have a stock of hybrid seeds for times when your heirlooms might have a hard time. Since you can't save the seeds from hybrids, you can take cuttings near the end of the season and root them indoors. Then you can plant them in pots during the winter until spring comes and you can move them outside.
This is the best video I've watched today. Great to see a smile, good humor, practical advice on basic living skills, and hope for the future. Growing is something I'm good at, and I think I needed this refresher.
Maybe you can come help me with my sad garden, lol. Actually, it's the first time gardening ever, so I feel like I did great just getting vegs to grow, even though I didn't get a lot of vegs from the plants. My zucchini had quite a few growing, only to die off before they were halfway grown, I only harvested 1. My sweet potatoes are tiny, strawberries were small and not many, green beans all started growing but the plants died before beans grew large enough to harvest, onions didn't grow at all, and green peppers are now finally growing a few peppers, but they are kinda small. I have a lot to learn, not ready to give up yet, like I said it was my first time growing anything and right now I'm glad the plants all grew. I envy those that have such neat & tidy big gardens, wish I could do that.
There are some really good vegetable gardening for beginners books. I like the square foot gardening books. It's an easy technique for beginners, less weeding equals less work. A small raised bed is a good way to start and not get overwhelmed.
Go now and order a passel of (free) seed catalogs. Spend the winter reading them, you'll learn a lot and get a nice, endless list of things you want to grow. LOL
Sounds like you may need to test your soil. It may be too acidic or too alkaline or not have enough organic matter. Do you have a local Farmers Cooperative? They could tell you how to do that. This would be my first guess at solving your problem. Good luck to you!
We made one above ground (? not sure what it's called) garden bed, along with growing some things in containers. We used all store bought soil from farmers store. Right now I have a couple of green peppers growing still, they are about the size of my palm right now, with some smaller ones that just stared growing. I'm in Alabama by the way, have a little longer warm season here.
The point of survival gardening is to have your own ongoing source of food when the canned goods run out and food shortages mean you can't buy food. We're only about two or three generations from many people living on what they grew. My grandparents raised and preserved (smoked) their own meat, raised everything else they ate. Coffee, sugar and salt were probably the only things they had to buy.
Au contraire. You need to read up on French intensive gardening. And I don't consider myself an amateur by a long shot. Aside from that, by ongoing I mean something past when the severe food shortages hit and stored food is dwindling.
I certainly didn't infer that we're only talking to suburban people with tiny yards. Actually, my point was that if you are just getting around to thinking about a garden to feed you this winter, it's probably too late unless you're in a very warm, frost free zone.
Rooftop/backyard garden, or hydroponics indoors. Apparently fish shit has nitrogen in it, so that's also good in hydroponics if you want to raise fish to eat.
When it's everyone for themselves, that hydroponic garden will keep you alive. Indeed better if you grow peanuts and turn it into peanut butter for the fat.
But we live here, we aren't a mobile force that travels like the military. Why not utilize what land you have? Most people waste their lots with Junk scattered everywhere. Cans are great but its not very nutritious.
Hard Wheat berries last forever. (store and plant 2 times a year)
32 per sqft,
About 7 sqft can produce 1 lb Flour.
Plant Winter wheat Sept-Oct, Spring wheat after last freeze or in December and they will thaw and grow when ready. (4-6 mos growth to harvest)
Also, they go dormant and start regrowing if a cold spell comes back.
I would add to this, if you have the space, rabbits and quails.
Animal protein is invaluable for keeping healthy, and eggs are nutritionally amazing. The excrement for both animals will keep your garden soil incredibly rich.
I'm still setting up my quail operation, but for my rabbits they'll be ready to start in about 2 weeks.
I'm doing a garden, rabbits, and quail in a 1300sqft townhouse, so I'm sure people with a house could do it even better than me.
Just want to add that for not a lot of money, people can make aquaponic gardens. The fish poop from the bottom of the totes fertilize the plants on top. This way you're getting vegetables and fish too!
We like to watch him.
Indeed, I loik this gai's spaych. Alot.
updoot for phonetic accuracy!
Whale oil beef hooked.
I wish i had a cool area like him with all that land and trees.
Me too! I'd love to have land to clear and develop.
👍
If the food shortage hits this fall and winter, you need crops that can survive in cold weather unless you live in a really warm zone like California or Florida. There are some things you can grow in winter, mostly very hardy greens like kale. I kept kale plants going all winter (zone 6, that winter temps went down into single digits) by using an old 55 gallon fish tank over them.
Fall crops should have been planted before now in order to harvest before it gets cold enough to kill them back. This guy lists some cold hardy things to try but you have to start now with good sized plants (try Lowes and other garden centers.)
Making mini greenhouses with hoops and thick plastic and good layers of mulch will help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl19suHaoQg
Another alternative would be to find a good farmer's market, farm or farm store about buy bushels of apples, cabbages and other storable crops.
Farmers markets are AWESOME. I used to grow my own green beans to can each summer. Not anymore. I get all the beans i need from the farmers market without spending hours and hours planting, weeding, picking. Nope. Fuk that. Canned up 36 jars of beans we got from out farmers mkt this weekend for $75. 8gal of family farm raised beans for $75. Yeah … Im doing that from now on. I use that soil for san marzanos now.
We have a terrific orchard nearby that has a store where you can get, in addition to bags or bushels of apples and peaches, pumpkins, gourds, squash, corn, shelled lima beans (I love you, bean lady!), cabbage, heirloom tomatoes all grown locally. I don't can much of anything any more, I freeze or dry. I got myself a nice, big dehydrator last year. They also sell the best tomato plants I've ever bought, lots of heirloom varieties, grown by a local farmer. Meats and cheeses from a couple of local farms. They sell some canned items they do themselves including a peach habanero salsa that the spicier the better fan here loves.
It's one of several nice farm stores but there are a couple that are buying the same tasteless stuff the grocery stores sell.
I really believe everybody who has any space at all should get a bushel or more of a good keeper apple, wrap each apple in a piece of newspaper and store them in wooden bins (the best) or even newspaper lined cardboard boxes in a cool basement or garage where they won't freeze. They'll wither a little but you'll have good apples until spring.
The best way to get a lot of something - apples to beans - is pick your own farms or orchards. My mother and I used to pick a dozen or more bushels of apples every fall, some to store and a lot for the apple butter she and her friends made the old fashioned way in a big iron cauldron outside. I swear the smoke made it taste better. Your state agriculture department should have lists of pick your own places.
I drove through one of the local towns today that had a sign up about a farmer's market once a week with local stuff. I need to check that out. Most of the farmer's markets here peter out because they don't have nice, local produce.
Canning is very simple and easy to do. Also potatoes and winter squash can last for month in a cool dark place with no special storage.
I canned for years.
Carrots love cold and allow you to pick all winter long.
Not more hardy, less. You can grow them in winter but have to plant in late summer. If well grown, they can withstand a few frosts but they will die if they have no protection when the really cold weather hits. Keep in mind in my zone we get lots of very cold temps, down into below zero, every winter. I'm in northwestern Virginia. So a good bit of the country is in my zone or colder.
We get snow but not that much. If it dips into the 20s that is big news.
20s is well below freezing, though. How's your annual rainfall? Even the hardiest stuff will die back or go dormant if it's too cold. You should be able to grow some hardy things with protection, though. Forget tomatoes and potatoes until summer, but kale, corn salad, turnips. Is your soil clay, rocky-sandy or rich loam? If you have good soil and decent rainfall, you should be able to grow lots of hardy things. With protection. Hardy plants hold up better if they're not stressed by drought, lack of fertility. Wet soil can cause root rot in winter in a lot of plants. Did you know if they're calling for frost overnight you can protect plants by covering them overnight - old sheets, cardboard boxes or you can get protective row covers at Lowes for really cheap.
Here's a quote for you: My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. - H. Fred Ale
My 98 yo grandmother didn't fertilize. She composted everything. She had a jar on the floor of the kitchen and every peel she used went back into the soil.
I have two really nice turning compost bins. You can put shredded junk mail in there too. I should add you don't need a fancy bin. For years my compost bin was a circle of chicken wire where I threw grass clippings, potato peels, whatever I had. (No meat or greasy scraps, alternate "green" from vegetables with "brown" grass clips no weeds with seeds, shredded fallen leaves, shredded paper.)
I put my chickens on my garden in the winter and let them eat the leftovers. I fertilized my first year and haven't needed to since.
TLTW on the video (worth it if you have 12:35 to watch)--
Potatoes
Corn
Cabbage
Beans
Pumpkin
Tomatoes
ty.
I will pass on corn, from what I've heard it isn't healthy for you. Potaters are high GI.
However, I guess if you need them during food shortages we can forget about the health in order to survive.
But I really doubt the WHs are going to allow many people to starve to death.
yw.
I was kind of surprised that corn made the "Top Six" list, too. Since the gardener/farmer on OP's video included food prep / recipe ideas (in addition to nutritional info), I got the impression that some of his choices may have been at least partially influenced by his food/taste preferences. Potatoes are easy to grow and pretty versatile. I'll have to listen to to the video again and take notes to glean more nutritional info from it.
I doubt the WH would "allow many people to starve to death", as you say, but the DS beasts and their thug squads probably have a slew of nasty tricks up their sleeves to disrupt transportation of goods and a general strategy to destroy people's trust in food sources. There's no low they won't sink to and will, in all probability, be pulling out all the stops between now and year end-EO1Q23 to take as many people down with them as they can. Remember, too, as soon as there's a perceived real food crisis, shelves will be emptied in panic buying and related chaos may ensue. These marxists are sociopaths and psychopaths and they fervently want huge numbers of innocent people suffering and dead. I don't believe that's an overstatement.
Definitely worth it, He made me laugh.
Why no onions?
Don't know. I would have added spinach to the list myself - easy (for me) to grow, tasty and nutritious. Everyone probably has their own set of crops that grow well for them. Growing up we never had luck with corn and I haven't tried it since. Potatoes are easy to grow so are zucchini imho.
Here it’s beets, beans, potatoes, carrots/parsnips, rutabaga, corn. All things that save well without refridgeration and yield lots
If you have space, spaghetti squash. It is hard shelled and shelf stable - we eat it all year until the next harvest.
Right forgot those… acorn and butternut squashes here
All winter squash really. Acorn squash has high yields and will do several flushes.
Any good tips /recipes for spaghetti squash that make it store? Maybe YouTubes? I have a lot of squash and I’ve been giving a bit away but want to be prepared
I don’t know of any videos, maybe some else can chime in, I just pick when it’s golden yellow and my finger nail won’t dent it. Make sure it’s free if worm holes. I let them sit in the sun a few days and then just keep them a cool dark place not touching.
You can freeze it too, I think you cook it, let it drain well and freeze it. https://www.wikihow.com/Freeze-Spaghetti-Squash I plan to do this with some squash that is not a good candidate for shelf storing
That is a damn good list, only thing missing is sweet potato.
With tomatoes, there are two major types, determinate and indeterminate. A determinate variety comes off mostly all at one time. This is useful if you need a bunch at one time to can or preserve in other ways. An indeterminate variety has tomatoes during a long period of time up until the vine dies. They don't really know the seasons, so as long as they are warm enough, they'll live and bear. I've had tomatoes on my vines in December. In a greenhouse, they'll live much longer.
The guy was showing how to propagate tomatoes by sticking cuttings in the ground. I've gotten better results by putting cuttings into bottles of water. The hairs on the stems turn into roots. After there are plenty of roots, I then plant them. Since they are clones of the original, you can duplicate hybrids. Hybrid seeds don't reproduce true, if they reproduce at all.
For a person starting out, hybrid tomatoes are the way to go, as they are a more certain bet to actually grow for beginners. You should always have a stock of hybrid seeds for times when your heirlooms might have a hard time. Since you can't save the seeds from hybrids, you can take cuttings near the end of the season and root them indoors. Then you can plant them in pots during the winter until spring comes and you can move them outside.
“Despite the best efforts of the British”?
The brits exported food while the Irish starved, and there were substantial number of troops stationed here. It was an attempt at genocide.
https://youtu.be/nqsMDWti-ys
Great channel love this guy!
Wow. Russell Crowe has really let himself go. Kudos for the change of career, tho, Rusty.
Have you seen Russell Crowe? He literally let himself go.
This is the best video I've watched today. Great to see a smile, good humor, practical advice on basic living skills, and hope for the future. Growing is something I'm good at, and I think I needed this refresher.
Maybe you can come help me with my sad garden, lol. Actually, it's the first time gardening ever, so I feel like I did great just getting vegs to grow, even though I didn't get a lot of vegs from the plants. My zucchini had quite a few growing, only to die off before they were halfway grown, I only harvested 1. My sweet potatoes are tiny, strawberries were small and not many, green beans all started growing but the plants died before beans grew large enough to harvest, onions didn't grow at all, and green peppers are now finally growing a few peppers, but they are kinda small. I have a lot to learn, not ready to give up yet, like I said it was my first time growing anything and right now I'm glad the plants all grew. I envy those that have such neat & tidy big gardens, wish I could do that.
There are some really good vegetable gardening for beginners books. I like the square foot gardening books. It's an easy technique for beginners, less weeding equals less work. A small raised bed is a good way to start and not get overwhelmed.
https://smile.amazon.com/Square-Foot-Gardening-Fully-Updated-ebook/dp/B07JMNCBKR/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2NCGH6PZK4CZA&keywords=square+foot+gardening&qid=1662522481&sprefix=square+foot+gardening%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-3 Here's the updated one, free if you have Kindle Unlimited or you can buy a paper version
This is the other beginner's book I think is excellent. https://smile.amazon.com/Vegetable-Gardeners-Bible-2nd-R-D/dp/160342475X/ref=sr_1_20?crid=2TKSGRMXHFN7R&keywords=beginner+vegetable+gardening+book&qid=1662522667&sprefix=beginner+vegetable+gardening+book%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-20
Go now and order a passel of (free) seed catalogs. Spend the winter reading them, you'll learn a lot and get a nice, endless list of things you want to grow. LOL
Yeah, all I harvested my first year were lessons.
Growing in pots this year in controlled soil was helpful.
Sounds like you may need to test your soil. It may be too acidic or too alkaline or not have enough organic matter. Do you have a local Farmers Cooperative? They could tell you how to do that. This would be my first guess at solving your problem. Good luck to you!
We made one above ground (? not sure what it's called) garden bed, along with growing some things in containers. We used all store bought soil from farmers store. Right now I have a couple of green peppers growing still, they are about the size of my palm right now, with some smaller ones that just stared growing. I'm in Alabama by the way, have a little longer warm season here.
Sounds like some nutrients are missing.
The point of survival gardening is to have your own ongoing source of food when the canned goods run out and food shortages mean you can't buy food. We're only about two or three generations from many people living on what they grew. My grandparents raised and preserved (smoked) their own meat, raised everything else they ate. Coffee, sugar and salt were probably the only things they had to buy.
Au contraire. You need to read up on French intensive gardening. And I don't consider myself an amateur by a long shot. Aside from that, by ongoing I mean something past when the severe food shortages hit and stored food is dwindling.
I certainly didn't infer that we're only talking to suburban people with tiny yards. Actually, my point was that if you are just getting around to thinking about a garden to feed you this winter, it's probably too late unless you're in a very warm, frost free zone.
Rooftop/backyard garden, or hydroponics indoors. Apparently fish shit has nitrogen in it, so that's also good in hydroponics if you want to raise fish to eat.
When it's everyone for themselves, that hydroponic garden will keep you alive. Indeed better if you grow peanuts and turn it into peanut butter for the fat.
Once those run out, what can you do?
But we live here, we aren't a mobile force that travels like the military. Why not utilize what land you have? Most people waste their lots with Junk scattered everywhere. Cans are great but its not very nutritious.
cost of groceries up 6.66% for a family..
Hard Wheat berries last forever. (store and plant 2 times a year)
32 per sqft,
About 7 sqft can produce 1 lb Flour. Plant Winter wheat Sept-Oct, Spring wheat after last freeze or in December and they will thaw and grow when ready. (4-6 mos growth to harvest)
Also, they go dormant and start regrowing if a cold spell comes back.
Saw it yesterday. Wrote the 6 down. I just got told at home: No more kale and quinoa!
Go to these guts for container/beds. https://www.grassrootsfabricpots.com/ I do not work with GrassRoots or am I involved other than being a customer.
Would've said potatoes, onions, carrots, mushrooms, cabbage, sprouts
mushrooms are delicious
Ty he is good yo watch. 😁 lets all fart together
I would add to this, if you have the space, rabbits and quails.
Animal protein is invaluable for keeping healthy, and eggs are nutritionally amazing. The excrement for both animals will keep your garden soil incredibly rich.
I'm still setting up my quail operation, but for my rabbits they'll be ready to start in about 2 weeks.
I'm doing a garden, rabbits, and quail in a 1300sqft townhouse, so I'm sure people with a house could do it even better than me.
How much area do you need to feed a person?
Just want to add that for not a lot of money, people can make aquaponic gardens. The fish poop from the bottom of the totes fertilize the plants on top. This way you're getting vegetables and fish too!
Good video on building a system: https://cinemaphile.com/watch?v=WYFM7J_TpTU
Another good site: https://www.howtoaquaponic.com/designs/ibc-aquaponics/
Popcorn
Just watched this. "Remember if you don't eat, you don't fart and if you don't fart, you die."
I was drinking my coffee as he said this. 🤣
😂 he's a character
Saw it yesterday. Wrote the 6 down. I just got told at home: No more kale and quinoa!
Saw it yesterday. Wrote the 6 down. I just got told at home: No more kale and quinoa!
I'm pretty sure it would be more cost effective for me to buy canned goods than try to set all that up in time to reap the benefits a year from now.
I like this guy, but his videos can get repetitive because he covers a lot of the same stuff often.
That channel icon though...
Sometimes an eye is just an eye. Not everyone knows the illumananti symbols.
I know I noticed that also, gave me pause at first. I imagine he doesn't realize the significance of it, lots of people don't.