I went to tractor supply, purchased some fruit trees. I dug holes and planted them couple weeks ago. Two more apple trees for a total of 3 now. A peach tree, 2 large blue berry bushes (dont buy the dormant ones in the store, they are shit, they dont grow) and 2 cherry trees.
I planted 4 (20 foot rows) of potatoes, 1 row of carrots, 3 rows of beets, 4 rows of corn, 1 row of beans. I have 6 kale plants, 4 cabbage, 4 zucinni, 8 cucumber in the ground. Still germinating my tomatoe and pepper seeds. I have 12 sunflower that I will plant in near future.
My aspargus have been producing great this year. My pee has smelled terrible for weeks. Lol.
I also have 10 chickens producing more eggs than I know what to do with. Family and neighbors have been fighting for them.
I still have room for more stuff, trying to decide what I want to put in. Do you have any suggestions?
Now Im out to cut grass and do some weed wacking. I have almost a acre of land, my garden actually takes up a small portion of my property. Its hard work but it fills up my deep feeze every year. Have a blessed day.
Plant root veggies - carrots, beets, turnips, potatoes, etc. You'll need them if things go tits up come election time.
Are potatoes easy to grow? Like on a deck?
I wouldn't grow anything on a deck, it gets hot in the sun, heats up the soil and easily kill the plant. But yes, potatoes are easy to grow. You can use grow bags. Place your seed potatoes in the bottom of the bag, cover them with soil, at the end of the season, dump the bag out and get your potatoes.
Couple years ago I had 100+ pounds of potatoes when I harvested. Last year I used some small potatoes I had saved from the previous year. When I planted them they were already growing vines, you need to avoid that. The vines pull the life out of the potatoes, they will not produce a large yield.
I use grow bags for Yukon Gold potatoes. Put your seed potatoes in the bottom and cover with a couple inches of soil. As the greens grow fill your container with more soil. Keep doing this until they reach the top of the bag. In the fall the entire bag will be filled with potatoes.
Yes! I start my potatoes in a pot on the deck. Just make sure it’s a deep pot and I’d grow one in each pot. I’m sure you know you can grow a tomato on your porch too.
Good advice. Carrots grow best in sandy soil. I have a bunch of raised beds. Some amended heavily with sand and perlite for the root veggies.
Thank you for the tips, I'm going to have to find some good fertilizer for my potatoes.
I'm lucky to live in the deep south, I grow veggies year round. Okra is a no brainer. the entire plant is edible and it is a staple around here. I have also been studying and identifying wild "weeds". I am amazed at the number and varieties of fresh food God has provided for us. Many of them are typically poisened to make room for the manacured yards.
Wild lettuce (aka opium lettuce) for pain & sleep - gather in the wild.
Mullein - for respiratory infection, urinary tract infection, also found in the wild, but you can gather seeds & cultivate in your garden. My daughter-in-law grows her own & makes tinctures.
Plantain not edible? I've made plantain chips and ate them, they are tastey
Lots of adults use hallucinations for spiritual purposes, also microdosing which lots of people get better results than prescriptions drugs for things like ADD or Depression. I guarantee once the cabal is finished, lots of medicinal studies will commence on natural substances to heal people.
There is a plantain that looks like a small green banana that is a staple of Caribbean cooking and is quite tasty, genus Musa.
There is also a lawn weed also called plantain that looks like a dandelion with rounded leaves and a stalk-like floral raceme, genus Plantago. It is one of three or four thing on earth I am allergic to.
Dandelion leaves make decent salad greens and the tap root can be dried and ground to make chicory “coffee”. In fact, the entire plant is edible. Dandelion wine is made from the flowers. Genus Taraxacum. If you want some for free, come and dig them out of my lawn.
Bananas? are you kidding?
The green ones fried, taste like french fries. The ripe ones are sweeter.
They are extremely edible.
I didnt know about the mulberry we have tons of them here on our property
On the back of my property there is a fence line separating my land from the adjacent farmers. The land is lightly wooded and isnt used by the farmer. All along the fence line I have planted elderberries. My wife makes jams and pie from them. Elderberries grow wild all over Michigan in lightly wooded areas so there is no care involved.
There is also a ton of wild asparagus along this fence line. If you are in Michigan, asparagus grows wild all over. Gotta get it in the spring before it gets woody.
Yes. Ive gotten a foraging book and am trying to see how many “remedies” grow where I have access. I have found mullein and morels. Plus I grow as many as I can like meadow rue, echinacea, calendula, dandelion, chickweed, willow etc
u must be Yankee, morels and mullein are not local to me
Im in Oklahoma. Mullein grows wild close to water sources snd morels will come up near dead cottonwood trees if your lucky 😉
Glad to see someone has free time. I might do the same when I get my tendies and retire.
This isn't a criticism, but maybe some encouragement. My husband and I both work full time and both have commutes over 35 miles. We have fourteen chickens, some guinea fowl, beehives, a few rows of fruit and nut trees, and a garden. We've spent two years getting to this point. Yes, we're exhausted, but yes, it's worth it when you have your own eggs, fruit, honey, and vegetables. There's also a lot of potential to meet like-minded people and also to be able to help your frens and neighbors.
I work 10 hours a day 6-7 days a week and my job is extremely physical. I'm lucky to have the energy to go shopping and get some laundry done when I have a day off....
Kek at someone downvoting your comment about working hard.
Working like a slave is nothing to be proud of.
Upvote to smoosh the downvote.
Upvote to balance out the downvote 😁
Your tendies are going to go to 0. The fiat is on its death bed.
My plan is to get tendies and buy some more silver.
If fiat go's to zero, I will have enough either way.
All your tendies going towards silver? Before or after the cabal is destroyeD?
No I've been buying a lot more stock lately. After we moon I want to get out of everything and into shiny metal. It also has a good squeeze potential, but at that point, I just want something safe.
You think Trump and team will not allow fiat to be traded in for gold back currency after the cabal is destroyed?
Their will be a period of instability first and then I can sell my metal for good money.
No. The time to trade in is now . I feel trump and friends are the ones keeping it artificially low. I think everyone else will be bread line standers since they can't see what's coming. Those who are in now will reap the rewards after we transition to whatever new currency we go into. But also I think everyone will feel pain. Even those who are most prepped will still feel the sting of convenience being no more.
My husband and I have done the exact same thing over the last couple of years. Fruit trees, nut trees, vegetable gardens, chickens, guinea fowl, and beehives. We're fixing our fencing so that we can get a few goats this summer, we hope. It's such a satisfying feeling to produce your own food and to live off the land like God intended.
Maybe plant some pecan trees. Those are nice to have. And some grapevines, too. You could also get a couple of beehives, depending on your space. And if you get some goats, you could have your own milk and cheese and sell any babies the girls produce.
Bread recipe and sourdough starter recipe, por favor?
I always like to have chives and let them do their own thing. I dry a bunch and use the fresh stuff all summer. Winter comes and I use the dry chives. Great in egg drop soup.
Rose mary just plant and leave alone. Use it to season meat when needed. Chives and rosemary will come back every year. Who cares if you don't use it.... if you need it... it is there.
Sounds odd but plant a white pine tree. No maintenance but when needed boil the needles for a tea.
White pine needle tea has 7 times more vitamin c than a lemon and boosts your immune system
white oaks, burr oaks, and red oaks are considered to be the best acorn trees for acorn flour. These species of oak trees are mentioned in multiple sources as producing essiest edible acorns that are suitable for grinding into flour.
Elderberry... let it grow... use it when needed
(If I had the right Climate I wish I could plant a soap nut tree) you have a soapberry tree growing in your garden, you can create your own soap! Learned that from the amish.
If you cut your chives down after the first bloom they will do it again for you.
My emergency food supply have 4 legs and eats grass. I never have to spend time to plant food. They reproduce new emergency food supplies and if there's not a food emergency are worth pretty good money
Carnivore diet! I have goats!
My emergency cow I bought is going on a year + now. Guess I prepared too much.
Just a quick note fwiw on kiwi fruit, I learned from a family friend living in the rainy Puget Sound that there are varieties of kiwis that will grow in cooler grey climates. She harvests boatloads every year. Still need both sexes.
Good job! 👍💯
My suggestion is to buy rice, beans, wheat, and sugar either precanned with oxygen absorbers, or in bulk and can it yourself with oxygen absorbers. Add a multivatimin and some Walmart or Aldi imitation SPAM and never think about food storage again. Hard white winter wheat is $1.30 a pound precanned and shipped to your door from the LDS online cannery.
Drought, flooding, other forms of bad weather, and pests can all destroy anything you are trying to grow. Physical injury may prevent you from being able to harvest it. Loss of power can make some of it have very short shelf lives.
In sealed steel cans in your basement, nothing short of a massive fire is going to hurt it. It will sit at 65 F for decades with little loss of flavor or nutrition. And I don't know about you, but I'd rather spend a couple extra days working overtime in the air conditioning and buy my food than spend it outside rooting around in the dirt or feeding animals everyday of the year and cleaning up chicken shit.
I studied up years ago in the art of prepping. I have shelves full of canned tomatoe sauce, salsa, spaghetti sauce, picles, relish, and jams. Noodles, bread and just add water 20 year shelf life goods. I bake zucchini bread and carrot cake every year. I dehydrate my own spices. The list goes on and on.
I have already been down the mylar bag/oxygen absorber route. I have couple hundred pounds of flower, corn meal, sugar and salt stored away for safe keeping.
I have a generator and enough fuel on hand for many weeks of electricity loss.
FAFO applies also with regard to the second amendment. Your are not speaking to a amateur, every need has been considered.
Back in 2020, I had 55 gallon drums of gas and diesel. The 💩 didn't hit the fan so it got wasted. We use it to set camp fires now. Try to remember most fuel only lasts about 6 months.
Why does it have to be a
What about small, orderly and clean?
Berries, blackberry, strawberry, raspberries, all good producers and easily stored by almost any method. Cherry tree is nice. I tried artichoke last year but they didn’t come back… half of our garden is things that come back yearly, makes it easy. Sweet potatoes are always good if you are south of the mason dixon line. Herbs, fill your garden border with herbs! Attracts all the beneficial insects and it’s so nice to not have to buy them in the store.
Butternut squash makes good comfort food, pies, and soups that can be stored. Also they last by themselves for months. I always have lettuce and tomatoes because we eat salads every day. Sunchokes and quinoa grow like topsy without much attention and are very nutritious but they're unusual.
i planted potato chips... got my fingers crosses for a huge crop!
Winter squash - what ever varieties grow well in your part of the country. We favor butternut and pumpkins. Melons are always a treat. Stick some herb plants in as well. Basil, parsley and thyme are easy to dry and endlessly useful in the kitchen.
I know some people that do meat bunnies. I couldn't do it.
Cows are kind of cute too, but I will eat a steak every day
Peaches/nectarines supposedly grow fairly true to seed (apples are terrible).
I have about 40 trees that I started from seed (wet paper towel in refrigerator)--- they are about 4' tall now.
Winter squash…don’t need to refrigerate…Hubbard, Georgia candy, butternut, etc. so many varieties. Use for pumpkin pie too. Can last up to a year in a basement. Some varieties like the pink banana can grow to 40 pounds.
Pink banana squash is delicious.
If it's lack of food, I would recommend some potatoes. Those veggies don't pack much calories
I am hoping I can buy a place like that with my stacks of silver and my small pile if gold.
I garden on a city size lot and I found a local farmer with extra room who has me helping around the farm in exchange for extra land and water to use on it. Good deal I got by calling a defunct CSA in my area.
Please continue to report. My garden attempt last year was mostly a failure. I know that I had room for improvement, but didn't think that it should have been as weak as it was. In talking to others outside the conspiracy world, I came to find out that I wasn't alone. I can't help but suspect that some of what they spew from their planes is detrimental. I intend to build a greenhouse this summer and resume efforts from there.
Impressive! I’ve got potatoes, carrots, peppers, tomatoes. I’ve got more to do yet. I’ve got two old big blueberry, raspberries and blackberry bushes, an apple and pear tree. I know I need more! Last Summer was a fantastic year. I made so much tomato soup and sauce and stew from the potatoes, blueberry bread, salads…. I felt so proud of myself. This year I planted potatoes for the neighbors too. It feels good!
Nice!! I keep trying to get all my stuff in the ground but we have had tons of rain here in Oklahoma. My asparagus is doing good too. Do onions, garlic and peppers for fire cider 😉
We like Butternut squash,it vines like crazy but produces a lot and keeps really well ,last year i planted it on the bean trellis and trained it up and down and sideways it did great,we still have four left from last year,one is big enough for two people,cut in half ,be careful very hard shell,take out seeds and mesh ,wrap in foil cook 350 for 90 mins,add butter salt and pepper sour cream if you like ,Absolutely delish. when the vine on the squash dies and the squash turns dark tanish its ready to cut ,wash off with warm water leave stem about 2 to 3 inches long and scrub squash with a green scrubber sink pad to get off all dirt and grim ,scrub the umbilical till it turns light green your getting off anything that can rot the squash over time let heal outside in a cool shaded place for a couple days ,keep in a cool airish place and check them throughout the winter,clean and wash the seeds and let them dry for a couple days then freeze for next year,ENJOY. p.s. THEY CALL ME THE MATERMAN, were matersamich freaks,DUKES ONLY.
Plant some fruit. Watermelon and strawberries are good.
you had me until "kale".... then i started to be concerned for you! kek!
Bush beans, BUSH CUCUMBERS, (oops yelling) and kohlrabi.
This year we just assembled 6 new metal raised beds. We filled the bottom with old logs and some brush and now ready for soil! By the 15th they will be planted.
Plant a lettuce bed that you can cut and let regrow. Best salad greens are my own.
The apple tree from 2018 will have apples this year for its first crop!
The beds were only $69 ea on Amazon.
Yes! good job!!
Our spring garden has been going for a couple of months now. Our potato plants (3 - 50' rows) were beautiful, but I am afraid the heat is getting to them already, they are showing signs of blight, so we may be pulling them soon, even though I think they probably need another month. Our squash/zucchini and cucumbers didn't do jack this year, plants barely got up out of the ground and started blooming, but are too small to do anything. The winter squash seem to be doing well, vining out with tons of blooms, small fruit starting to form. The pepper and okra are still young, they love the heat, so they should really start taking off now. The tomatoes and tomatillos are all loaded with fruit and blooms, though still a ways off from being ripe. I am hoping the stink bugs don't ruin them like last year :/ The sweet corn is tasseling, but seem really short, but they did the same last year and we had a bounty, so hopefully this year will be the same. The field corn is looking awesome, over hip high, we have about 10 - 80' rows of that, and might replant more when we pull the potatoes. We did about 1600 plants last year and ended up with 8 - 5 gallon buckets of dried corn. I have been making home ground corn meal and grits.... homemade cornbread is sooo good! Our big crop this year will be white acres. We bought a pea sheller, so hoping to put it to good use, I think we have 8 or 9 - 80' rows planted. They are coming up nicely. Just planted 2 more rows, so they don't all come in at one time.
The last of our onions we planted in November are ready to harvest this weekend, so we will be curing those, should end up with about 200 onions, some are tiny and we got quite a few monsters.
We also planted about 20 fruit trees this year, hoping they will be producing in a few years. Several varieties of oranges, grapefruit, lemons, limes, avocado, peaches, pears, apples. And we also planted 6 blueberry bushes.
You must live up north, because down here, cabbage, kale, beets, carrots are all winter crops :)
Yes, please keep us all informed!
I plant my fruit trees above ground using "fire rings" --- on a top of a peat moss base. I fill them up with engineered soil ---- slightly acidic 6.0 to 6.5 ph. Cut up 55 gal drum rings are the economy version. This also makes it easier to mow around.
This keeps the roots on young trees from drowning/rotting --- and you don't have to worry as much about over watering. I fertilize with 10-10-10 fertilizer. I top it with pine mulch which will decay into humus.
Land privelege
I'm trying some Jersey giant chickens. They are about half grown now. These are going to be some big-ass chickens ---- supposedly big-ass eggs too. These are gentle giants.
For predators ---- I got some African geese (really from China) as guard geese for my chickens.
A side benefit is that these geese are also lawnmowers (70% to 90% of their diet is grass).
beans
Health til:
About root vegetables for food. Eat as little carbohydrate food as possible and focus on highly saturated fats.
Carbs lead to glucose and insulin pumps and will cause inflammation.
We are still planting here in Michigan. Our last frost date isn't even here. We have potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, peas, brussel sprouts and the first leaf lettuce in.
We planted a fruit salad tree last year and because my dad passed and my brother doesn't want a garden, we got two peach trees and a possible cherry. Dad had tons of strawberries and raspberries. I transplanted those even though we already have some of our own. Been working on an asparagus section but haven't had much luck into the second year. Of course brother wants dads.
Still have butternut squash, tomatoes, kale, onions, cukes, beans and cilantro, summer squash and zucchini to go in. We are adding a grape arbor this year. And maybe some blue berry plants. Going to try carrots in the sand box this year. I don't think our soil is good for growing them. We don't do corn because you only get two ears per plant and it takes a lot of ground. We can buy it locally very cheap.
We have horse radish and rhubarb too. I want a couple of chickens but will have to wait on that until we can afford to fix a shed up as a pen.
Gardens are a lot of work but so worth it. Food tastes better and is better for you. Do it if you can. There are lots of videos available to teach you.
I am growing broccoli and cauliflower this year in large containers. One plant to a container. I am trying my hand at brussel sprouts too. Also put out a row of turnips which I hear do better late in the year as they prefer cold weather but should still grow. My potatoes are blooming already so I thank God for that. My corn is up about 5 or 6 inches along with my green beans which is about 4 inches high. Squash and zucchini are up. I had to replant my okra as it didn't come up for some reason. My tomatoes look good, and I just set out 2 bell pepper plants. I have 1 hill of watermelon, 1 hill of canteloupe and 1 hill of cucumber. Praise the Lord my garden looks and is doing great. I set mine out in black plastic ground cover as I don't have the time to hoe anymore. I am waiting for my cabbage and lettuce to get a bit larger before I set some in the garden. I have 2 Lowe's buckets with holes drilled in bottom for my carrots, and 2 window box containers for my radishes. I also have 3 strawberry plants.