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…
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.
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 !
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.
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.
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 👍👍👍👍👍🌽🍋🍑🍈🫑🥦🍅🌶🥒🥬🥕🍊🎃🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
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! 👍😉
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.
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 .
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 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.
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,
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. :)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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)
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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! ✌
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
Hello,thanks for these important crops to grow.I have your sweet Potatoe Manual,and going to read it so I can grow some this year.You all's crops are looking really good now.Blessing's and be well you two and your critters.Love,Pia&Family.♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡.........
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.
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.
I think I would have lumped the sweet potatoes and potatoes together and gone with beans as well. Thank you, it’s nice to hear someone other than me speaking about needed gardening.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ive learned more in 5 minutes than I have in 55 years straight from this man. Blessings and more Blessings to you and your family.
Amen 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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…
Potatoes, onions and carrots. These store very well during winter
And winter squash
And sweet potatoes.
And Zucchini Squash.
Add beans to your potatoes, onions, and winter squash.
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.
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 !
What is the verse you are referring to?
Jeannette Forbes Esther 4:14
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.
Thanks
Thank ya bro
From northeast Tx
I eat a clove of raw garlic a day
No flu this past season
Thanking our Lord Jesus for His provision
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 own a greenhouse and barter alot
Doesn't help if no one has anything to trade
@@patrapper7367 ok
So if I can figure out how to grow toilet paper I can trade for everything else?
@@xn85d2 It’s called mullein. So, probably no.
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
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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! 👍😉
Sweet potatoes have edible leaves that are great raw, toasted crisp in the oven and stir fried. Wow thanks for the sugar info.
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.
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 👍
Are you serious?!?! what a great tip thank you!!!!
@@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 .
Did your family raise it and take into syrup to?
Danny, you’re a Godsend!
The skill of canning is second to growing vegetables seems the top 5 skills for homesteading.
Absolutely I have to get on that.
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 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.
Good for you. Im glad you are growing no matter what. When i lived in a townhouse. I did not have ground just containers. I grew alot of food.
You know you need that cane for moonshine bruh. Who you kidding!
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,
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. :)
You feed your critter children? What kind of critter is it?
Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter of crisis. Your life knowledge is power.
We call em wild onions. Tastes betweem onion and garlic. Great for Italian foods.
Something a lot of Americans don’t know about or wont do is Dandelions, you can take pull the whole thing, remove the flower and boil it as greens
Thanks Danny , I took notes from this and also from the comments . Thanks guys .
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.
I 10,000% agree with you there. Cheers and good luck :)
Agreed
...i could listen to danny talk all day. I never heard anyone say "raw" and "because" for example like he does.
Life without Deep South homestead would just be difficult.
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!
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.
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.
~•~ Thank you Danny for this should help us all....GOD'S LOVE and JOY .
My favorite channel. I’m trying to get things going in mid NC
Have to do pots for now, still renting .
Godspeed!🙏👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
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!!!
Where did you buy it from? I’m looking for seeds and it’s basically impossible for me to find!
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.....
@@Alexis_9339 Hi Alexis, I have extra seeds that I would be happy to send to you but I am not literate on how to get your address privately. .
@@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!
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.
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)
Classic rock Lover I always use honey instead of sugar when I’m making bread
You can also grow Stevia for sweetener.
Thank you for the feedback I always keep raw honey. I love it and it's good for you. I eat it everyday with raw garlic. Many health benefits.
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Yacon is another alternative. you can use them to make yacon syrup.
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
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.
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!
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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.
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
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.
I planted 27 seed potatoes and 70 onion sets over the weekend :)
Terrific presentation! Loved it!.
We grow Collards we are able to get three pickings a summer to freeze ..Squash,Zucchini, Onions,.tomatoes,
Peppers, radish, and spinach.
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! ✌
Blessings. Even your older videos are wirth a million! julie
Thank you Danny. Very informative and needed for people who begin to garden after being shocked by empty shelves in the stores. Grow your own food.
Smiley Blue, I agree, just woke up too late :(. I will do what I can.
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.
The Dooley's Of Michigan Have BLESSED Day
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!
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.
Great video, thanks for the info! ✌️♥️🌲
As a transplant from the prairie and desert, gardening down here is WAAY different. Glad to hear of new options and varieties and how /when to plant.
The information you give in these videos very are great 👍 😃
Thanks for video. Great to know. im new at garden and need to learn alot summer and fall garden.
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.
We love ours also potato onions
Glad I found you! Good video.
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 I found u man
Just found your channel it is very informative 👍 I live in zone 6 Due to the current events my garden has gone from 200 square feet to 1000
Potatoes, beans, corn, carrots, peas, and raspberries....those are my 6. In that order.
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.
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.
Thanks y’all for a great video. God bless.
This valuable info is now in the "Danny Says" section of my notebook. Thank you.
Potatoes, carrots and onions is a must!
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.
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.
You have a short growing season. So pick things you will eat that grow and mature during your season.
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.
Super valuable potatoes propagation information! Thanks!!
been watching some of ur videos. you guys are great.
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....
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What tropical country.. I'd love to go. But they probably won't let me out of this one.
Chives, one of my favorite pick and snack crops. I got a garlic variety, yummmmmmm
Hello,thanks for these important crops to grow.I have your sweet Potatoe Manual,and going to read it so I can grow some this year.You all's crops are looking really good now.Blessing's and be well you two and your critters.Love,Pia&Family.♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡.........
Thank you deep south for your hard work
Great video my brother. Subscribed.
We grow garlic in our orchard to keep deer and squirrels away.
Thank you so much for the information!
Absolutely great question posed.
I almost hear bubba gumps voice when you recite all the uses for potatoes! Lol totally agree, so useful and filling!
Great thing about sweet potatoes is the greens are also edible.
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.
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.
I was told the leaves are good to eat and my daughter was right!
Find a rabbit breeder and buy thier manure i bet they will love you
plant morina!
Get some straw bales and plant sweet potatoes in them. Look up a video or two. Works great!
Yacon (tuber) is a great natural sweetener and it is easy to grow ❤️
Lots of good information. Thank you!
Wow the potatoes really took off.
Great topic good choices love y'all
Very enjoyable.
Sugar beets, are a big time crop for deer feed and bait, up in northern Michigan. 👍
I think I would have lumped the sweet potatoes and potatoes together and gone with beans as well. Thank you, it’s nice to hear someone other than me speaking about needed gardening.
Sweet potatoes are not the same as potatoes. Two different type plants. One is a tuber and the other is in the morning glory family.
True!
As always Danny it's a pleasure to hear from you thank you for are wisdom and encouragement.
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.
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.
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.
I use to to...lost my teeth
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.
Ma Ma always told me," Stop eating them raw potatoes your gonna get worms"! Is this true. I used to eat them raw. loved them.
Eat them raw????
On some Saturdays my father would grab an onion from the refrigerator and sit in front of the tv...maybe he wanted to be alone for awhile, lol.
Lol my husband loves onions. He eats pb and onion sandwiches.lol
My gram used to cut up onions and eat with milk.
Great video! Thank you!
Irish spuds!!! Love it 💚
We do maple syrup for sweetener and neighbor has honey. Nice swap.
Your videos are so informative. Thank you
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.
Dark Age Growing, Wow, so I am in the same zone. Do tell what works ;)
Dark Age Growing : Are you sure you in zone 8. I am in South Alabama in zone 8-b
Dark age same zone as you. I've never grown sweet potatoes sucessfully. I planted peas, potatoes. My onions and garlic in. Like you said still cold.
Zone 8 central Texas
I buy garlic bulbs produce walmart, ,nice row growing, green onions too in flower pot looking good, want some snip with succor garlic the same.
Great video, thanks for sharing you knowledge ☺️🙏🏻
You deserve more views!