The #1 SURVIVAL Crop for Self-Sufficiency

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1. Do nettles not sting your bare hands?

2. Chickens. 1 rooster and 8 hens can give you 2000 calories per day infinitely.

3. Your garden looks so green and abundant already, what a pleasure to catch glimpses of! Until last week it still felt like winter to me (londoner here)

4. Starting my first garden in over a decade and first ever urban garden. Nervous and excited and suuuuper impatient. I'm in the Seattle USA area.

5. Squash flowers and young leaves are also delicious shredded up and mixed into a pancake or bhaji batter and fried. You could mix in some of the onion and brassica flower tops as well. Both the shredded leaves/flowers and the fritters also store well in the freezer.

6. garlic does it for me, toobad it does get white rot if i plant them late in the year, planting them undercover and under tree's early in the year usually works very well

7. You just KNOW that title is gonna attract all those paranoid, weird american preppers LOL 🙂

8. Herbs! Mint for sure, and chives, parsley, cilantro and dill. Those all propagate with ease and increase your crop size.

   Gonna try the lacto on green tomatoes this year, like that tip.

9. You missed the opportunity to mention that the nettle also makes a nettle tea for garden fertilisation.

10. Huw, how the hell are you always so clean? Even the harvested veggies you show are extremely clean. Your clothes are always impecable. I'm a mess after no more than 5 minutes in the garden, all my clothes are destroyed and all cover of dirt, many animal poos and a god knows etc. Always a pleasure watching your vids, but please explain this. Thanks!

11. Have you ever or collabbed with someone about medicinal herbs? Like maybe the top 10 that would cover most common ailments? I grow alot but….. haven't found one for pain. Don't have room for a white willow tree. Haven't been able to germinate meadowsweet. Poppies are too unpredictable. Any suggestions?

12. Greatest crops for long term survival … veritable Garden of Eden out there … many options
    (1) Potatoes, sweet potatoes (edible tuber, vine sprout and leaves), yam (only edible tuber – research ! – yam not sweet potato)
    (1a) Andean tubers/roots – Achira, Ahipa, Arracacha, Maca, Mashua, Mauka, OCA, Ulluco, and YACON. Arracacha, Maca, Mashua, Mauka, Oca, Ulluco, and Yacon edible leaves (Achira, Ahipa – non-edible greens)
    (1b) Yam bean/Mexican potato/Mexican turnip (Jicama plant) – only edible root
    (2) Roots and greens – beets, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas (swedes), salsify, carrots … dried carrot greens sparingly sprinkled in soups and stews … now proven that cutting off root and replanting in soil root top and greens will regrow root
    (3) Mustard, nasturtium, water/land cress – all parts edible
    (4) Taro root – edible young leaves and root
    (5) Daikon "soil tiller" radish, common radish, horseradish – edible roots, edible leaves used sparingly
    (6) Onions, garlic, shallot, scallion, chives, leeks – can overwinter or root cellar. Can cut green tops and will regrow.
    (7) Fuki (Japanese rhubarb) – edible stalks treated like rhubarb, American rhubarb stalks cooked and edible, Gunnera/Chilean Rhubarb – stalks said eaten fresh – no rhubarb acidity
    (8) Ginger – tuber and flowers edible – research which species have edible stalks and leaves
    (9) Turmeric – ginger cousin – tuber ground to spice, edible flowers, leaves ground for medicinal use
    (10) Hosta leaves – research which species have edible leaves
    (11) Winter squash/gourds – edible fruit and flowers
    (12) Cat tail tubers – edible
    (13) Cabbage, kale, collards, tree kale, tree collard, raddichio, broccoli, cauliflower – edible fruit and stalks – can cut off fruit and will regrow fruit
    (14) Lettuces, tree lettuce, celery, celeriac, fennel, finnochio, – cut fruit or stalks and can regrow plant and fruit

13. Excellent…Great guidance.

14. I cannot really rely on freezing because we tend to have power outages. But I did enjoy fresh tomatoes in winter by storing green ones in dark cold space. Not the same as freshly picked but worth noting as an option if you head towards the end of the season. Better than wasting it. 🙂

15. Pork with sage and cider apples. One of the nicest pork dishes out there and a useful way to use up some good cooking apples (that don't turn to mush when cooked). Courgettes also really work well in minestrone soup or as an alternative to aubergine in mousakka. They can also be cut lengthways with a peeler into thin ribbons and used raw in salads or cooked wrapped around other things (like you might do with bacon). Loving sharing the ideas for what to do with garden produce and what works best in small spaces. That will serve most people well – as most people don't have a big garden.

16. I was planting my potatoes today and actually I managed to dig myself a bonus meal of last years potatoes in perfect condition. I garden in zone 6. I am so surprised and amazed. That means I can have fresh potatoes all year round even with little storage space. Excellent!

17. ALWAYS enjoy your videos. They are simple, full of gardenwisdom and hacks and a calmness that is pleasant ????

18. could we please get a writen list with details, for the non-english speakers that couldnt catch all the words ? thanks ! 😀

19. Amaranth. Grows fast, huge, lots of uses. Not the best tasting, but if you need it… Self sows. And it doesn’t mind scorching heat. (A must for Texas)
    Okra, cowpeas, seminole pumpkins, zappalito de tronco squash, tepary beans. (Also because they can take the scorching sun and droughts.)

20. What is the variety of an apple that you put into the box in 9:20? This looks like an apple that my grandfather had in his orchard when I was a little girl. I would love to have it in my garden as it was the most delicious apple I’ve ever eaten.

21. I have a question – what is the difference between runner beans and climbing beans?

22. Did I already tell you my uncle's joke about zucchini? He said:
    Zucchini is the reason why people lock their car doors at church. ????

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