Hybrid veggies seldom give you seeds that grow good crops. Often sterile.
Heirloom veggies are not sold in stores. Seems better taste doesn’t trump better shipping and more standard sizes.
Gardening is a local skillset. Start now even with a few 5-gallon buckets to start learning.
Scott’s lawn and other herbicides used to kill off tasty and healthy dandelions will kill off most garden plantings for a year or more after you stop using them.
So, plant where dandelions grow well.
Yep, know what you need to know.
Green bell peppers are immature bell peppers. The peppers have to be left on the plant until fully mature. And if you do leave a pepper on the plant, it will stop setting fruit. So it’s a trade-off: a mature pepper for saving seeds or a pepper for eating now.
To survive TEOTWAWKI, you have to have started gardening several years ago so you have the experience and the pantry to make it work. The same thing applies to any animal husbandry (chickens, rabbits, et al.).
Actually, Judy aside from telling most here that haven’t been a homesteader for Years to just die off, there are options:
Go get yourself 2 years of basic shelf stable foods. That will give you some time to set up and learn about subsistence farming.
Frankly anybody even a homesteader who doesn’t have a large larder is setting themselves up for failure.
AND a set of trusted friends as more than a few well armed but food poor folks might decide YOUR Homestead is theirs now.
Books and friends that know a bit about gardening and small livestock are useful. Then GET STARTED.
I could go on but that would be an article in itself.
Hybrid veggies seldom give you seeds that grow good crops. Often sterile.
Heirloom veggies are not sold in stores. Seems better taste doesn’t trump better shipping and more standard sizes.
Gardening is a local skillset. Start now even with a few 5-gallon buckets to start learning.
Scott’s lawn and other herbicides used to kill off tasty and healthy dandelions will kill off most garden plantings for a year or more after you stop using them.
So, plant where dandelions grow well.
Yep, know what you need to know.
Green bell peppers are immature bell peppers. The peppers have to be left on the plant until fully mature. And if you do leave a pepper on the plant, it will stop setting fruit. So it’s a trade-off: a mature pepper for saving seeds or a pepper for eating now.
To survive TEOTWAWKI, you have to have started gardening several years ago so you have the experience and the pantry to make it work. The same thing applies to any animal husbandry (chickens, rabbits, et al.).
Actually, Judy aside from telling most here that haven’t been a homesteader for Years to just die off, there are options:
Go get yourself 2 years of basic shelf stable foods. That will give you some time to set up and learn about subsistence farming.
Frankly anybody even a homesteader who doesn’t have a large larder is setting themselves up for failure.
AND a set of trusted friends as more than a few well armed but food poor folks might decide YOUR Homestead is theirs now.
Books and friends that know a bit about gardening and small livestock are useful. Then GET STARTED.
I could go on but that would be an article in itself.