Some folks here on the Gulf Coast grow potatoes, onions & carrots over winter. I have planted a half-dozen broccoli starts in early November and gotten 2 bushels over mid-January through late February.
My paternal grandmother came over from England on the Lusitania as a baby. My paternal grandfather came to the USA as a baby from Scotland. Both went through the Great Depression. Grandma said that when she was dating Grandpap, that he was so poor (his mother was a widow, and he had 5 other siblings. So he was helping the family out), that he took "onion sandwiches" to work for his lunch. Just 2 slices of bread (buttered I think) with a few big onion slices on it. No meat. I have a clear picture of one Easter at my grandparents house, when I was very young, maybe 5 or 6 years old. And Grandpap sat at the head of the table. He had a little glass with water and an ice cube in it. And a few small spring onions with the stalks still on in the cold water. A tiny pretty crystal individual salt shaker next to the onions. And he poured a bit of salt on a little tiny plate, and dipped one of those onions in it and ate it just like that. When visiting them, if it was time to sit down and eat. He'd always tell one of us grandkids to "go out in the garden and pick Grandpap a few onions". We'd do as he asked, and Grandma would meet us at the kitchen door, to shake more of the dirt off the onions, before bringing them in to wash them in the sink.
We would always tell change my mother and tell her that she's like onions. Onions she said when she was little a lot of times for homemade bread child butter and wholesome green onions not bad actually pretty good
I remember my grandpa eating home grown garlic sandwiches. My family lived with the grandparents for 7 years and I am now 75. We used to even have the dripping from cooking on bread and butter as well as sugar on buttered bread for a treat. Grandpa used to catch eels down the creek and being English and Scottish we ate a lot of cheap meat products of offal like kidneys, liver, tripe, lambs brains. Both garlic and onions pa said, were a reason he never caught a cold. Natural foods then with no additives or preservatives were more healthy than now.
@@gayedawn1 I remember my grandpap talking about eating tripe. He had grandma make it for him once in awhile. I think he tried to get my mom to try eating it and she said no thanks, lol. He was born in Scotland but came over to the US with his mother and Aunt, his father died when he was a baby. He never had any childhood diseases, so when we as children got the chicken pox or the measles, he had to stay clear of us for a few months. His doctor told him that if he contracted any of these childhood diseases as an adult man, it could be deadly. He said he had the croup when he was a teenager, and they gave him a spoonful of sugar with some kerosene in it! He took it and said it got rid of the croup! He told his doctor that story when he was an adult, and the doctor said it's a wonder that didn't kill you. They stopped at our house once when I was young, and I was sick in bed, with a very bad sore throat. He came in the bedroom with grandma and mom to check on me. He stayed after grandma and mom left the room, and he saw the Vicks vaporub on my nightstand, and said to me, take a little bit of the Vicks vaporub and swallow it! I was only 8 years old and said, no grandpap, it's supposed to go on your chest, on your skin. He said he knew, but it would help if I took a bit and swallowed it. He said back when he was young, if you had an earache, ear infection, they'd get the inner part of an onion, the part that looks like a long stem with a bump on top... they'd put that in their ear at bedtime and sleep with it in their ear all night, to draw the sickness out. I remember my grandparents conversations, and there were no antibiotics back then. They would talk about people they knew, relatives, friends, that died during childhood, teenage years, from colds or infections that turned into pneumonia. It was no wonder they had remedies of all sorts for when they got the sniffles. They wanted to nip it in the bud as soon as they could before it turned into something much worse.
@@suzannefronzaglio2427 so many old remedies are coming back now and many herbs and spices in our cupboard have medicinal uses too. Funny your post reminded me that we also had to put Vicks on our tongues.
@@suzannefronzaglio2427 it’s interesting what you said about kerosene, I recently heard that it’s beneficial, I think you need the pure form as opposed to the kind we use today that has additives, but it’s like soo many other things that’s works that we’ve been made afraid of…
I feel like for the first time in my life , all the things I have been preaching are finally falling on open ears ... I have had a particular Bible verse in my heart for the last year... "Perhaps you where created for such a time as this..." I feel like this verse hold alot of meaning for all of us youtube homesteaders ! Keep up the good work! Keep educating ! Knowledge is power !
Never forget the number one "other use" for homegrown crops: BARTERING. When any shortages happen, trading your veggies for another grower's harvested edibles (or toilet paper) will be a very powerful survival tool.
I only started growing for food in june last year, 2020, i am convinced potatos can keep you alive, im uk, i typed in, you came up, im subscribed, cheers man🇬🇧🍻
Danny I don't remember how I found your channel but I'm very thankful I did. You and Wanda have been very helpful to me in the little time I have watched your channel. Both of you bring out the good in people. I really like the basic down to earth attitude and caring you both have. God Bless both of you, the farm and may you have a good crop season.
Plant some Sorghum at edge of woods leave some of them each year , in the area you leave them each year you will get Alot of morale mushrooms come springtime 👍
@@pbudinsky1 You are Welcome ❤,,,,,️ I Love them ,,,I've used them on salads Raw ,on pizza, in spegetti Sauce, Freeze Alot, and of course Fried , there was some" old" Sorghum Field's many Miles from me and people find so many they sell sacks full of course it's grew up now & no longer a fields , massive amounts of mushrooms Every Year, where those old Sorghum Field's use to be.
@@JaneDoe-ti9fr What the heck is sorghum? lol . Seroiusly you have me interested here. Is is some kind of plant juice for mollasis? I gotta look thet up.I love gardening (O:
@@tullysoulliere8103 it's a cane plant just like sugar cane , from what my aunt told me, all I know is that where it was planted in Field's many years ago there's Mushrooms Galore. She just said it's in the grass family .
I grow many things in containers. I live in an apartment so very little outside room. sweet potatoes are great in containers and you can eat the leaves as well. Just don't eat regular potato leaves, they are toxic. And do things vertical. Summer squash or zucchini get a lot with just a few plants. Greens can grow fast and you only need to pick what you will use right then. They are easy to let go to seed and have a continual crop. Peas leaves and pods are edible. Sweet dumpling squash are my favorite winter squash. They have a nutty flavor that reminds me of chestnuts. Radish grow in 30 days. Even if you don't like the taste raw they are great in soup/stew.
For me must have, plentiful and easy to grow: potatoes, green onions, onions, peppers and tomatoes!! I plant in planters, harvest small but wonderfully rich in taste and storage! 👍😉
I think I'm gonna add Pink Eye Purple Hull Peas to the list. Beans gas me too much, but I sure do like a bowl or two of purple hull peas and the pink hull, pink eye peas are so easy to shell. They add nitrogen to the soil and will grow in just about any type soil. Best thing of all, they don't gas me up.
The Cherokee tans will keep up to a year. Sweet potato greens are great in smoothies. Also, if you've never had mashed potatoes from your own garden you don't know what you're missing. You will be truly surprised at the difference in taste when compared to potatoes that you get from the store.
Amen everything tastes better when you grow it yourself there is no Roundup in Miracle-Gro on it to give you cancer or some disease LOL you actually know peed and pooped on it too
Look into planting Egyptian walking onions, potato onions, Swiss chard and make sure you let a few plant to bolt to collect a lot of seeds. Also if you like plant some arrugula, collard greens,
Alternatives for natural sweeteners: honey (learn to keep bees or batter for it) and apples. Use apples to make homemade apple sauce, which can then be used in many baking recipes to replace fat/sugar (featured often in diabetic recipes)
I'm in tropical country in small village, i have alot of green bean, corn, cassava, paddies, wild taro root, moringga, and alot of wild green that can be eaten, im ready for global recession anytime....
Hi Danny & Wanda, I suggest a green named Holland Greens, (Tyfon). I live in the desert and as long as it gets water it grows & grows! The young leaves you can use in salads and the larger leaves are great for sautéing like spinach. It can also be used for fodder for your animals! I have grown it now for 3 years and it is amazing. When I ordered the seeds they said you can feed a village from a small plot, yes you can so don’t plant too much!!!
Can't find it anywhere. Nichols Garden Nursery up in New York said that company went out of business. Pine tree Seeds no longer carries it either. So, whoever can obtain some seeds, then cultivate, could make some money, especially if fodder for animals.....
@@norxgirl1 I originally purchased them from Pine Tree, I looked when you all said you couldn’t find them, and yes you are right!! Crazy!!! I do have extra seeds that I will send you. I just don’t know how to do it privately. Also I don’t want to make any $, just a GOD BLESSING from me to you!
My nominations of Other notable sustainable foods: 1) dry beans, due to protein content and long term storage 2) cabbage, considered a "poor man's food" worldwide but actually very nutritious. Learn to make homemade sauerkraut or kimchee, which are both long term storage pickling that turns cabbage into probiotic power houses. 3) asparagus: you can also forage for it, commonly called "ditch weed". Asparagus has a small time frame of producing, but once established a bed will basically take care of itself for 20 years or so. It can be eaten fresh, frozen or canned. 4) Corn of some type. If the dry corn is raised, it can be turned into cornmeal and used for so many other dishes. 5) carrots are another long term storage root crop, high in nutrients. So many to choose from. I love the onions and garlic, due to medicinal but also to help flavor other dishes. Did you know the taste of fresh garlic changes, depending on whether you slice it, crush/mince it or roast it?
These are really good additions to the list. I would add turnips for the tops and the roots, sunflowers and pepita pumpkins for their seeds, maybe bell peppers for their vitamin c content and even though they are not a vegetable, I would plant a couple apple varieties just because apples are so versatile. From Danny's list I would agree with onions, garlic, white potatoes and sweet potatoes. Any kind of squash can be wiped out by squash bugs and sugar cane takes a lot of time and effort for empty calories.
When you were talking the other night on live chat i had a thought, it hasn't left me since. So here goes I think you should take down your sign at your gate. I think to protect you a little it may help keep you safer.
My husband calls them stick onion, we call them table onions. I read a book about the depression, many families lived on potatoes through the winter. It's all they had. Kept them alive.
Stevia. Grow your own sweetener. 300 times as sweet as sugar. So a little goes a long way. Fresh or dried leaves add natural sweetness to ☕ tea and other dishes.
Egyptian walking onions are amazing too, think perennial forms of food people, stuff like sweet potatoes. Annual crops will not be sustainable in the long term, research permaculture plant lists for your zone, research those plants on the list, get them, and get them soon. Increase your knowledge about wild foraging.
0:25 You hit on something unfortunate there. People have been kept busy and entertained so they would not think. Everything grinds to a halt, they start to think, and realize they've been living a lie! Spaghetti squash and pumpkin are the two best I've found so far. I grew Vegetable Marrow this year. Looks like it's going to be a good squash. I'm in zone 5 maritime area, growing sugar beets for the first time. They seem to be doing excellent.
In my opinion best survival crops to grow are: Perennials grow once and eat them for a long time Sweet potatoes - you can eat the tubers, they are a perennnial, leaves can be stir fried with garlic taste better than spinach Tree collards, the perennial 10 year kind - grows all year here in ca doesn’t go dormant in winter. can juice stir fry a little tree with lots of kale like leafs you can make chips and juice it. Pigeon peas- I didn’t know how delicious this one is a perennial growing pea tree grows hundreds of peas that taste so sweet and yummy Morninga- if u have snow grow in pot so u can bring in doors it is one of the most nutritious plant leaves out there I take this like my multivitamin, seeds can been eaten also can be used to purify water, I watched a documentary on Africa where the hospitals had no medicine but gave these to very I’ll kids and they recovered because it had so much nutrition another reason they call this the miracle tree - you can search the term Experimenting the Madagascar bean also known as the calico bean can grow seven years , chestnut like tasting beans, also know as the calico bean u just throw one of the seed pods in the ground and it will grow another plant for 7 years, still learning about this one Gynura - purple one taste better and sweet it survives all year in ca through winter. I use it for stir fry and also between my sandwiches a perennial bush easy to grow not much pest problems Good luck on your survival garden!!
I live in the city. Newark, New Jersey. A population of 400,000+ people. I see the big picture. No time left to BS around. What do i do right NOW!!! I'm about solutions and I'm ready to start. Based on this video and most comments, I'm thinking of going with sweet potatoes and spaghetti/winter squash. Ideas, insights, etc welcome. Honestly though, I've been thinking that times will get hard but we needed to get back to nature anyway. Back to our roots, so to speak.
Oh boy I planted fingerlings , but I want to go run & buy an organic sweet potato so it will grow eyes , as your etsy store has no sweet potato slips, God bless u Mr. Danny & Wanda . Hugs on new Podcast Josette Tharp 🙏🏻 Montgomery County, Texas 👍👍👍👍👍🌽🍋🍑🍈🫑🥦🍅🌶🥒🥬🥕🍊🎃🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
Finally someone who understand the Grand Solar Minimum we are just now getting into..got a subscriber and more! Best of luck in this years growing! Stay healthy my friend! Greetings from Nor Cal! ✌
One Jerusalem Artichoke tuber bulb put into the ground is said to produce up to 25 pounds of food. Now multiply that by 10, 20, and 30 bulbs in the ground. Last time I checked, you can still purchase these on Ebay for around $15.00 for 1 pound of them. This plant has been a blessing to me and I pray that it will bless someone reading this. Much love from Michigan Saints ✌
Hereward The Watchful - we have JA growing wild here in western Kentucky! We moved some to our property and it is spreading like crazy so we gave it its own garden. Wonderful plant!
@@StringfieldRidgeFarm - That's awesome! I've been trying to establish these on my farm for years but the deer and other critters dig them up as soon as I plant them. This year I spread them out. One in the greenhouse, one sprouting in the windowsill, and one in a caged area outside. I hear they're hard to get rid of once established. It's just overcoming the critters is my biggest challenge.
Wow! Totally wasn't expecting the sugar cane. Kind of ashamed that I never even thought of a sweetner. Never too late, though. I'm going to check out your information on this as soon as I'm done feeding my critter children. Thank you. :)
Squash, Potatoes, corn, carrots, onion, tomatoes, peas, are my go to in Iowa. We can, freeze, dehydrate, and stock for winter. We also have fruit trees and bushes...sure helps with grocery bill.
I found a great perennial shade lover called Waterleaf. Leaves, fresh for salad or cooked like spinach and the rhizomes are edible and crunchy like bean sprouts. And thanks! Drought resistant sorghum would probably do really well here in Boise. Gonna try it!
Thank you for all the info. I'd like to say I never hear preppers talk about Atmospheric water Generators or if you can filter and drink water from a dehumidifier. I like to cover all bases. Thank you.
I would recommend just get started doing it. I grew a lot in just a 10x10 space. The secret is spacing and interweaving crops. Use a lot of compost and you can get it for free if you look for it.The walk of 1000 miles begins with one step.Just name it and you can grow it and in abundance,
No such thing as a bad potato, I can’t stop myself from eating them raw when I peel and cut’em up for what ever I’m gonna cook’em with. Plain or salt black pepper, seasoning of what ever. Great for a quick snack or the main meal. Potatoes 🥔 are a power food.
Hi Donna my Aunt use to cut a piece off a potatoe for me when I was a kid and I would put salt on it and munch it down.I still do this when cutting a potatoe and it reminds me of her.I am part Estonian and my Family have eaten lots of potatoes.Be well there.
Growing up we had potatoes everyday cooked all sorts of ways, pinto beans as well . My dad didn’t think it was a complete meal without them, lol . I still have a potato almost everyday in some form. I just love them.
A lot of people still don't know that sweet potato leaves make an excellent sweet and tender cooked green. Many countries use sweet potato leaves as a staple in their diet. I had one year of them, and they were delicious. I wish I had better soil, though, because I am on sand, near the beach, and it is so depleted in everything. Fruit trees and bushes do well, so that's what I planted. I will be trying out hanging container gardening this summer, in hopes of avoiding all the insects that invade everything.
One of my favorite and most useful videos! I have never grown sweet potatoes in my zone 5. We do have many fields of sugar beets and they harvest until November.
I’m far from ready to start a homestead. Have to spend more time in the rat race before I can buy a nice piece of land. I’m a planner and watching your videos has given me piece of mind. Thank you! Cant wait to use all your good information!
Sweet potatoes. ..a super food, easy to grow and any type of bean , or pea...high in calories and nutrition. ..a person can grow a lot of lettuce and starve to death. ..in these very difficult times we are in I would try to make these types of veggies my basics and expand from there
Agree on the sweet potatoes. The only two potatoes we are growing this year is sweet and red potatoes. Peas and beans are also a great veggie to grow as they are also a good source of protein.
i agree LR. if space is an issue, i wouldn't waste it on onions. lol lentil, peas, potatoes, kale, peanuts, walnuts, beans protein + vitamins roses for vitamin c which you will keep you from getting scurvy. without vitamin c, scurvy will set in in a few weeks and become severe in a few months. if you want to plant onions, plant a few around the roses to keep aphids away.
Man , just I can say many many thanks for your direct, clear and sincere sharing your experiences without talking about selling items&advertising instead of gardening. God bless you and your family. You are the best i kiss your hands and hope to see more about planting
So exciting. Please keep posting. I'm local to you and I struggle with knowing which plants will deal with our high heat and humidity in containers and raised beds.
My number one survival plant is sun chokes. It's hard for us to grow potatoes in the desert but sun chokes do fine and they store underground. They make gobs of little potato like roots. Very easy to take care of. Great survival plant.
They do just as fine in southern areas of Canada. Actually be sure where you want them, because they are there to stay. Great food insurance. The bulb can be eaten raw or cooked, and the bees love the flowers.
J Mc Do all you can because food shortages are on the horizon. View Christian’s video, the Ice Age Farmer on yt. Scary stuff. Danny has also given us videos from his porch about food shortages. Watch them too and don’t forget to smash the LIKE button. Blessings to you.
May I suggest collard greens. They can be trimmed and they recover. Cook them in bacon grease or pressure cook them 10 minutes and add some ham. I call it peasant food. Fills you up. Cheap food of good quality.
I find asparagus can handle the heat and humidity of central Georgia. It is a very nutritious vegetable once started only needs some added mulch or manure to last many years. Now I am trying out jerusalem artichokes, a member of the sunflower family.
My big growing success is silver beat. A packet of seeds that costs a dollar will grow a hundred plants. The leaves can be cut for meals and younger leaves are sweet to taste. As the silver beat ages it flowers and goes to seed. The seeds fall and new plants sprout. Parsley is the same. A packet of seeds bought six years ago keeps providing parsley used many meals each week.
Very helpful video Danny. Thank you for sharing with us. With all that is going on in the World today, I think that there are more and more people wanting to grow food. You two stay safe and well. God Bless you both.
Here is a great meal to make with sliced red potatoes and sliced sweet potatoes and cubed ham! Just fry them together, preferably in bacon fat. Delicious! I use several medium size red potatoes or red new potatoes and one big sweet potato. I use whatever ham I have, even thin deli ham cut into small, bite size pieces. A couple of brothers who lived near a small town that I lived in saw me at the grocery store and saw I had sweet potatoes in my cart. They were both mentally disabled to some degree and so sweet. The younger one gave me this recipe! I treasure it especially now that they are gone. My family loves it and eats every bit!
Glad to have found your channel. You are only a holler to the south of my neck of the woods, so your gardening techniques are inline with what I need to do.
for hot weather outside or indoors like at a south facing sliding door. grow with a tall tomato cage to climb on. Its Malabar spinach. a couple plants going for 2 years several servings every week for me.
Thanks for the tips on hearty, sustainable vegetables to plant as well as the great LINKS!! I just subscribed to your channel because I appreciate your content!
Great video, still had a heavy frost this morning. Hopefully the yard will dry out enough by Wednesday to be tilled. About a half acre that will be in potatoes, beans corn, okra, etc.
In Taiwan, they pick the sweet potato leaves and stems to eat. They cook it in a pan with a little grease/oil. Cook the stem for a moment, then add the leaves and cook on high heat for a couple minutes, then eat it with their rice. I'm guessing it can be boiled in water also. It tastes a lot like spinach.
I'm up in Vancouver Washington zone 8 and we're growing lots of Irish potatoes, starting our spring planting of garlic and onions now but we have to wait another month to start our squash. I'm trying to grow sweet potatoes but my season is almost too short to get them to mature. Thanks for sharing this list.
Sweet potatoes do beautiful in the heat of summer, unfortunately I didn't have enough on me to pick em up when I saw em at Home Depot. Make sure you have a variety of crops you can grow during the entire year. 👍
