How to Discover the EASIEST Survival Crops for Your Garden (No, it's not the cow)

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  • Which high-calorie survival crop is best for your garden? Today we share how to find easy-to-grow plants that will keep you full.
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    Potatoes? Cassava? Yams? Sweet potatoes? Pumpkins? Let's take a look at growing a survival food supply in your garden that does well with your climate and soil!

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  • @Maria-ql3fc
    @Maria-ql3fc Рік тому +43

    I’m old and I can tell you what my parents grew when I was growing up in the 50’s. They grew field peas, butter beans potatoes and corn. In the spring and fall they grew greens of all kinds. Plus we foraged from the land, blueberries, blackberries, wild cherries and persimmons in zone 8B.

  • @agapefield
    @agapefield Рік тому +44

    When I was in my 20's I moved to a different area, different soil, different zone than I had grown up gardening in. My Daddy told me to go to a feed store and watch for someone buying seed and or bedding plants and ask them what they grow in their gardens. I met some really nice gardeners that were very happy to share their knowledge.

  • @isabelladavis1363
    @isabelladavis1363 Рік тому +5

    Well it’s looking like sweet potatoes ..black eyed peas… collards ..okra …berries…well it’s a start…stay blessed David

  • @reneebrown2968
    @reneebrown2968 Рік тому +5

    Sweetpotatoes for me. I live in south Alabama. And some chickens. In the spring squash and greenbeans.

  • @orbitingpluto3213
    @orbitingpluto3213 Рік тому +2

    Here in New Hampshire I have had the best luck with potatoes, tomatoes, strawberries, and pumpkins. We also have wild raspberries, so I'm trying out a patch of an improved raspberry. The deer, rabbits, and groundhogs eat almost everything i plant. Those have been the plants that survived.

  • @shames59
    @shames59 4 місяці тому

    hey David love your show another way is to find a local hardware store mine is called latore hardwre they sell potatoe seeds strawberries all the things that will grow there

  • @RachellesGardenDiary
    @RachellesGardenDiary Рік тому +11

    I'm trying to increase my edible native plants. I figure if they're native then I won't have to baby them like some commercial food plants. As long as I get them planted in the right spots and get them established. I still managed to kill a couple of them by putting them in the wrong spots.

  • @laurascozycorner458
    @laurascozycorner458 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for sharing this knowledge, still fairly new at gardening and this helps so much! ❤

  • @glenhac5973
    @glenhac5973 Рік тому

    Got a turnip that stayed under the snow all winter. Ate it yesterday! Still Yummy. I got a pile of potatoes that stayed under the snow ready whenever I need it! I'm in Northern New brunswick! Gardens are apering but Still lots of snow in the woods!!

  • @Ricosyard
    @Ricosyard Рік тому

    Great video I’m going to try that I have a older dude a block away that has a few mango trees I’m about to bring him a plant or something

  • @visnuexe
    @visnuexe Рік тому

    Thanks David! It seems as though i have had to learn this lesson the hard way! Still with fluky weather pushing the zones in either direction can produce unexpected rewards!

  • @DeepSouthBama56
    @DeepSouthBama56 Рік тому +1

    David if you drive a little more north of you, you will find a lot of veggies being grown commercially. Such as tomatoes, squash, melons and such.

  • @coreyellerbe
    @coreyellerbe Рік тому

    I really need to get going on the landracing.

  • @lynnjasmine3216
    @lynnjasmine3216 Рік тому +2

    No to brassicas!!! I did not even hear of things like kale until I was halfway through my life....thank goodness. Cabbage is grown here, but blackeyed peas and cornbread are the bomb! (And sweet potatoes and regular potatoes.😂

  • @monarchkitty
    @monarchkitty Рік тому

    Excellent, informative video!!!

  • @umiluv
    @umiluv Рік тому

    I’m in E TN zone 7a. So potatoes, peaches, squash/pumpkin, corn for the calories. Tomatoes, peppers, and a bunch of herbs to make the calories tasty.

  • @vicwickgardens9174
    @vicwickgardens9174 Рік тому

    You’re the best! Thanks for sharing 🥰

  • @ursamajor1936
    @ursamajor1936 Рік тому

    In zone 4B and definitely potatoes although chitting needs to start the first week of April for planting out in early May otherwise they'll be tiny 'tates! 😊

  • @mayshomesteadchronicles
    @mayshomesteadchronicles Рік тому

    Good word, David!

  • @PlantObsessed
    @PlantObsessed Рік тому

    Question. What is a popcorn tree?

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  Рік тому

      It's a common invasive tree here, also known as "Chinese Tallow Tree."

  • @pascalxus
    @pascalxus Рік тому

    the ancestors where I live ate acorns that grow on the oak trees all over the place and lived off them! Oh dear.. talk about labor intensive.... geez, i gotta rinse them like a gazillions times.

  • @spektrul4905
    @spektrul4905 Рік тому

    Do you know any for south alabama, mobile bay area

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  Рік тому

      Dioscorea yams, sweet potatoes, taro, cassava - all high calorie, easy to grow there

  • @jenniferperry7481
    @jenniferperry7481 Рік тому

    Wisdom

  • @lagoya
    @lagoya Рік тому

    The things that WANT to grow here in central Arkansas:
    Cowpeas
    Moschata squash varieties
    Okra
    Collards
    Sorghum
    Sweet potatoes
    Blackberries
    Mulberry
    Persimmon
    Pecans

  • @trenomas1
    @trenomas1 Рік тому

    Throw a bunch of seeds on the ground and see what pops up.

  • @goofyroofy
    @goofyroofy Рік тому +1

    shame about the Tung oil, I love using it on my wood projects

  • @kathycook1815
    @kathycook1815 Рік тому +1

    David, please, are you getting LOTS of chemtrails there? I am just due west of you in MS and get them almost daily for years now. They are blocking the sun and are doing bad things for my garden. What say you? Love you and family.

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  Рік тому +1

      Yes, we are getting some. Not a ton, but enough.

    • @ccccclark2605
      @ccccclark2605 Рік тому +1

      I'm in central Texas.
      Chem trails are HEAVY and many yrs of drought.
      I've figured out: splash trees, bushes, garden, etc daily. It keeps them hydrated and (I think) lowers the amount of chems absorbed. It works. Leaves are pretty green.
      Also, I put up 1/2 shade over most of my garden, cuz chems were defoliating my plants and the fruit would twist (like Frankenfruit!) with big brown spots. I didn't eat them. I uprooted all of them.
      Anyway.....the 1/2 shade is working. No more defoliating.
      If ONLY my 50 potato 🥔 will survive and give me food!
      👍✝️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @ThisSmallGnome
    @ThisSmallGnome Рік тому

    If only we had a local ethnic market! We got Walmart & Publix. *sigh*

  • @OfftoShambala
    @OfftoShambala Рік тому

    Discover YOUR Garden!

  • @jackieroberts6316
    @jackieroberts6316 Рік тому

    Geez! I love you to death but what is with the blair witch project camera work?

  • @ZE308AC
    @ZE308AC Рік тому

    Lambquarters plants

  • @truthbetold1855
    @truthbetold1855 Рік тому

    All those southern crops, and I didn't hear Okra....

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  Рік тому

      It's not really a survival crop. Calories aren't high enough. It's a great veggie, but living on it would be tough.

    • @truthbetold1855
      @truthbetold1855 Рік тому

      ​@@davidthegood Just fry it for the calories 😉 it's just so prolific for me.

    • @almostoily7541
      @almostoily7541 11 місяців тому

      Leaves are edible as it's a hibiscus relative. Seeds were roasted and drank in a warm drink like tea or coffee I believe in the civil war.
      It'd take a lotta seeds. I guess if you wanted caffeine, you could mix it with roasted yaupon leaves.

  • @ashleycampbell8767
    @ashleycampbell8767 Рік тому +11

    I happen to know the native Americans did in fact get their seeds from the burpee rack at Lowe’s. In hard years, sometimes ferry-morse at the surviving Walmarts. Those “sow easy”®️ kind with the little window on the packet were especially favored.

  • @jeas4980
    @jeas4980 Рік тому +10

    Can I recommend getting to know your local tribal members? I'm super fortunate given I live near the James River in Virginia outside of thr 7 cities region including Williamsburg and Jamestown, Yorktown. There are actually "historical gardens" in my area featuring both colonial and native tribe gardens. (I literally have no excuses). But some of my greatest resources come from attending the Powwows in my specific region which has a unique microclimate given it's swampy nature. Learning and understanding how they watch nature to signal their planting schedule has been very valuable information to have. Especially in years where thr dogwoods bloom early and the redbuds come late. I know what time to plant out which crops... because nature signals the appropriate timing. Fot instance... carpenter bees are in full swing but my stout little black honey bees are still elusive. Well.. if I had planted out my tomatoes and peppers based on the 80° weather we've had the last 2 weeks... they would have died last night or taken a huge stunting hit. But I didn't... because my bees are missing. They know better than I do to stick to the pollin they chose to form their hive nearby and reserve their energy for this late cold snap. They've naturalized themselves to this area over a much longer time than we have. So I watch them. I watch my birds and which visitors are showing up when... and who is nesting here unexpectedly. Maine... one of your native species is nesting in my backyard... so I expect that from Northern VA to Canada is going to have a colder than average spring because the migration has haulted for this species in Southern VA. Purple Deadnettle and wild violets went to seed very quickly this spring... I expect a second harvest this year.. so I'll have a second chance to plant out fruit trees. Cherry blossoms and apple blossoms are late... so I can't plant peach trees and shouldn't count on a good blueberry harvest. This is the kind of skill set you can get by interfacing with your local tribe's people.

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  Рік тому +1

      Good idea

    • @phillipbampton911
      @phillipbampton911 3 місяці тому

      Okay. So, it's a year later and my curiosity is killing me. I'm begging you, please, how did your long range weather forecast go? 😂

  • @buckaroobonsaitree7488
    @buckaroobonsaitree7488 Рік тому +14

    If you're in Florida , the only survival crop you need is Jerusalem artichoke. It provides all the animals fats, micronutrients, protein, fiber, animal feed, building materials, self defense, and moral support you could ever want from a sentient plant friend.

    • @jenreelitz8766
      @jenreelitz8766 Рік тому

      Unfortunately, in South Florida, zone 10 it doesn't grow too well. 😢

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  Рік тому

      hahahahaha

    • @sam_sonya50
      @sam_sonya50 Рік тому

      How do you prepare Jerusalem artichoke? I planted 3 tubers & got a bumper crop. But my stomach did not appreciate it. I gave “all of the rest” to a goat farmer last month. Guess what’s thriving in the old planting bed now! They love my soil. I would love to know how to prepare them so I don’t have stomach pain later.

    • @geoffreyshubert2263
      @geoffreyshubert2263 Рік тому +2

      @@sam_sonya50 i read to cook them for 12 hours in slow cooker. Presumably that could be duplicated by cooking over warm coals too. Apparently there is none of the issue causing substance left after that.

    • @sam_sonya50
      @sam_sonya50 Рік тому

      @@geoffreyshubert2263 Thank! I will try that this time since they obviously want to grow for me! 😁

  • @ramtharthegreat
    @ramtharthegreat Рік тому +14

    I have a copy of a county history book where I live printed in 1840. Which, for my area, was still pretty wild and unsettled. TONS of great info on what was raised here. I think many of us think of the massive cornfields we have today as the result of modern agriculture, but there are stories in this book that say the Shawnee Indians had 80 acre fields of corn in my area. Natives here were also reliant on squash, potatoes, and beans, which combined with corn, are definitely my go to 4 crops that grow, store, and eat well in my area.

  • @kensimmons9960
    @kensimmons9960 Рік тому +9

    Thanks! Possibly the best survival crop video I've seen. I live in the Finger Lakes area of New York State (on the border of zones 5 & 6). Because of our short growing season, I grow as many crops as I can that will produce food when direct seeded, in the case of A LONG-TERM power outage preventing the use of grow lights for starting seedlings. Glacier tomatoes, walking onions, potatoes, dried beans, squash, garlic (hardneck), spinach, Swiss chard, carrots, & beets all grow well here and will all produce viable seeds (as long as they are open pollinated varieties). Perennials are great, though they take tie to establish. I grow asparagus, raspberries, and dewberries. Also strawberries, they are kind of a semi- perennial, last about 3 years. They produce 'babies' that can be rooted and planted in early fall to create a new bed in the spring. Sorry to be so long-winded, I thought passing this information along might be helpful.

  • @marybk882
    @marybk882 Рік тому +15

    I accidentally did 3 sisters one year. I had never heard of the principle before then. It turned out great. I've never been able to intentionally duplicate those good results however! Of course.

    • @goldengryphon
      @goldengryphon Рік тому

      Plants can be contrary. I think they spend their lives quietly p[lotting. It's the only thing I figure would explain some of the contrariness I see -the tomato that blooms like a forsythia, but just drops it's fruit before it's large enough to do anything with, the eggplant that has beautiful fruit, but falls over a week before it might be ready to pick and eat in a light sprinkle, the pole beans that refuse to climb, or run along the ground, but kind of bush out for no reason, ....
      Congratulations on having done it once!

    • @phillipbampton911
      @phillipbampton911 3 місяці тому

      Out of curiosity, are you just planting or are you also putting fish waste in the bottom of the hole, because my understanding is that they used to put a fish head or something similar down there. I'm often wrong but I wonder if some people just forget that step. I've never done it myself but I intend to try it this (Southern Hemisphere) spring.

    • @marybk882
      @marybk882 3 місяці тому +1

      @@phillipbampton911 I do not put fish in the hole but occasionally I'll add fish guts to my compost.

  • @williamvillar2519
    @williamvillar2519 Рік тому +5

    Is it Zucchini? 😂 It's Zucchini, isn't it.

  • @scotmhead
    @scotmhead Рік тому +14

    My area was known for commercial fig growing, the town next to us is named "Pearland" because they grew pears. And across the freeway that city has the annual strawberry festival, because that's what they were known for. But what foods they grew all year long I'd love to investigate. Good ideas, DTG.

    • @Vixxiegurl
      @Vixxiegurl Рік тому +2

      Is this in TX near SE Houston?

    • @scotmhead
      @scotmhead Рік тому +3

      @@Vixxiegurl Yeah, I'm in Friendswood.

  • @lisarusso6618
    @lisarusso6618 Рік тому +8

    I have found other growers to be some awesome people! In no other group have I found folks so willing to share their knowledge and resources! Most are nonjudgmental and accept where you are on your own path. I have made many friends doing just what you say to do! I have pulled up to houses, walked up driveways and knocked on doors! I met my now best friend doing just that!! 😊

  • @NannaCarlstedt2
    @NannaCarlstedt2 Рік тому +9

    Hi David, Thank´s for sharing your thoughts. Yes, I agree, it´s not really lettuce that starving people are most happy to get their hands on... I also wolud like to add any kind of beans; They give you the proteins, and are easy to either dry the actually bean or ferment the bean pod, so it lasts through next years May, during the famine period, before the new crops are coming... The greens, as lettuce, are so very easy to find growing wild in nature, even berries are quite easy to find. But we really need the potatoes and the like, as Jerusalem artichokes which stand for even longer in the ground after all the potatoes is finished in your jute sack... If you´re living in a cold climate zone, they even stay in frozen ground, as a freezer, waiting for you in Jan-Mar!

    • @natalierinehart7109
      @natalierinehart7109 Рік тому

      Very good point to focus on filling in the gaps left by what's already available to forage in your area. I may love raspberries... but I have no need to grow them when I can go pick wild blackberries and mulberries in my neighborhood. Better to save garden space for sweet potato and squash. Foraging calories is too hard for me.

  • @user-ic2ug8ys1z
    @user-ic2ug8ys1z Рік тому +2

    Hmmmhmm...I love me some French fried taters and biscuits with mustard. I reckon...
    😃🌱🐢

  • @kayceb4503
    @kayceb4503 Рік тому +3

    Last summer I knocked on the door of a house I admired with 3 green mangoes I had just harvested. I was rewarded with several large mexican sunflower cuttings.

  • @sherryarch7374
    @sherryarch7374 Рік тому +7

    I love gardeners who's been around the many places & took the time to educate themselves with other foods.

  • @daigledj
    @daigledj Рік тому +5

    Found my locally adapted sweet potatoes by going to our local Piggly Wiggly during season, grabbing a few and getting slips off of it. Done the same from farmers market for other things. Figure if someone else local was successful enough with the variety to market it then odds are it will grow for me too. I've also started taking excess seeds, volunteers, etc, and spreading them around on nearby unused land. If they fail, oh well. If they make it to flowering then I'll get some cross pollination and even more locally adapted seeds for next year.

  • @oreopaksun2512
    @oreopaksun2512 Рік тому +3

    I wish that gardener dude could set me up with some of those illegal and invasive "true yams" he keeps talking about....but in the meantime, I was just gobsmacked to actually find Yukon Gold potatoes, good sizes, too, in my growbag in Central Florida. Hah! And those compost squash vines are flowering, and I think they are the Thanksgiving butternut squash, so check, check; I haz food growing!

  • @captainron1960
    @captainron1960 Рік тому +3

    Gardening is like everything else , a lot of ifs ands or buts

  • @Vaessen13
    @Vaessen13 Рік тому +9

    WE COULD EAT COMFREY!!! HAVE YOU HEARD OF COMFREY!!!

    • @steph6337
      @steph6337 Рік тому +2

      😂

    • @erikjohnson9223
      @erikjohnson9223 Рік тому +2

      We could eat bunnies that ate the comfrey, as long as we don't eat their livers, but comfrey is "so so."

  • @Darkfyre755
    @Darkfyre755 Рік тому +7

    Since i moved to zone 11 Australia to start my garden I've basically looked around the globe at places near my growing zone and collected as many of each place's staple foods as i can. Now i have a giant collection of staple foods that grow high calorie crops with little to no effort. For me here, that's cassava, taro, sweet potato, plantains, water chestnuts, Qld arrowroot, grain corn, jarrahdale pumpkins, amaranth, quinoa, chia, pidgeon peas, bamboo, nopales, potatoes in the winter, and probably some more that I'm forgetting

    • @cameronaustin4997
      @cameronaustin4997 Рік тому +1

      choko

    • @CurlyWirls
      @CurlyWirls Рік тому

      Australia has growing zones? I live in South Australia (Adelaide) and didn't know we have zones here😮

    • @Darkfyre755
      @Darkfyre755 Рік тому +1

      @@CurlyWirls we do, kinda! There's a world map online that uses the parameters the USDA used to define their growing zones. It's obviously not as perfectly defined as the zones in the US but still very helpful with figuring out what you can grow

  • @charitysmith5245
    @charitysmith5245 Рік тому +2

    Preach!! The humble delicious field pea! I made myself go to a plant swap with a friend and I'm glad I did..met a sweet young couple into homesteading and exchanged numbers. We talked excitedly forever! And the old timers have all the good local info. (I think hubby and I are graduating more into the old timers category hehehe)

  • @afriendtoo6971
    @afriendtoo6971 Рік тому +2

    I'm moving into more butternut squash, pumpkins, candy squash, sweet potatoes and reg potatoes for storage and multiple uses.
    Hard to survive on lettuce.

  • @rachelhall4808
    @rachelhall4808 Рік тому +4

    I’ve just got Grow or Die. Such a treasure of knowledge! Thank you for all you have shared!

  • @davidpritchett855
    @davidpritchett855 Рік тому +3

    I really enjoyed reading buffalo womans garden. The only thing is I went to Walmart and apparently they don't stock tanned buffalo scrotum foraging bags. I mean really what is the world coming to when you can't get buffalo scrotum foraging bags at your local Walmart! That said I'm growing pipe tobacco this year and I am extremely excited to try making tobacco prilep pipe tobacco

  • @ninemoonplanet
    @ninemoonplanet Рік тому +3

    I'm in the PNW temperate rainforest zone. Here it's tough to grow most root crops because of the rain, 🌧️ almost incessant at times so those rot quickly. I prefer legumes, especially those that tolerate shade. (Sunshine isn't raining) a long with trees like figs (yes they grow fairly well) and cherries, apples and nut trees like hazelnut, oak (the acorns can be processed fairly easily),
    Potatoes must be grown in pots with high drainage and good soil. Blueberries, same thing.
    Mildew and fungal resistance is necessary.

    • @ninemoonplanet
      @ninemoonplanet Рік тому +1

      Zone 6 b, maybe pushing 7 in a good year.

  • @ausfoodgarden
    @ausfoodgarden Рік тому +3

    Well, here in Melbourne Aus, I think zone 9'ish, for high-calorie crops, I'd go sweet potato in summer and regular potatoes in cooler months.
    Because I only have a small area to grow, I concentrate on leafy greens and herbs all year round, tomatoes, and peppers in summer.
    But yes, it's all based on climate and soil. Excellent info instead of the "grow this/plant this" that so many others push on YT.

  • @mollygardens6646
    @mollygardens6646 Рік тому +3

    For my trial with the three sisters in West Texas I used yard-long beans, Cherokee pumpkin and Hopi squash, I can’t remember the corn variety without my notes. The corn was not successful except as a trellis. But the beans and squash were highly productive! Also grown: okra, black eyed peas, zucchini and pattypan squash and melons! Lots of food all grown with a farm irrigation well.

  • @thisorthat7626
    @thisorthat7626 Рік тому +4

    David, you are asking the right questions to help people think about what they could be doing. Turnips, eat the roots, and feed the greens to your animals. Beets, same idea. Oats have a great nutritional balance. Easy to grow in many areas. Where I am now it is citrus, avocados, chard, tomatoes, peppers, squash, chickens, etc. I stockpile what is inexpensive that I have trouble growing. Plan ahead and things will work out.

  • @HealthyDisrespectforAuthority
    @HealthyDisrespectforAuthority Рік тому +3

    I'm in a good grow zone but have garbage dirt.. working on it, a little at a time.
    Southern yellow pine seems to do well.. rhizome grass is happy here and those sand spurs.. prickers.. whatever they're called are everywhere.
    My little animal of choice is ducks.. best eggs for baking and really entertaining little buggers. If you don't mind noise, guinea birds are a good pairing for the ducks and they take care of bugs.. even love bugs. during love bug season, when we had guineas in the early 2000s.. roof stampedes were common.
    local ethnic market.. Bwhahaha.. the only local market of any kind here is dollar general... and really doesn't qualify as a food market.

  • @oldbear6813
    @oldbear6813 Рік тому +2

    Finally someone willing to say that 3 sister's is just "meh" I tried it for several seasons but am not a fan and am discontinuing my attempts this season

  • @hopemore3493
    @hopemore3493 Рік тому +3

    Thanks David... you're the best.

  • @creeperking0017
    @creeperking0017 Рік тому +4

    i swear if i hear the words "moringa" or "true yams" kome outta ur mouth david

  • @Ficus_blue
    @Ficus_blue Рік тому +6

    Here in the UK for me it would be potatos, carrots, cabbages and kales, outdoor tomatos, runner and french beans, courgettes, chard, onions, salads, turnips. I usually always sow sweet corn but it's hit and miss, dependant on how sunny our summer is. I'm classed as zone 8b but we don't really use the zone system here but it's always useful to know which zone you are in.

  • @dustrabbit4761
    @dustrabbit4761 Рік тому +2

    Excellent! Talk to people in TX. They can tell you that lights out comes without notice. I like the art vids, & lately my pupils dilate at grafting vids. You did good here. All gardening is local gardening. My resource-adequate gardening today is practice for resource-poor gardening tomorrow. Just build your experience. Right now.

  • @brownthumbnursery
    @brownthumbnursery Рік тому +3

    It was great to get to meet you yesterday!! May your thumbs always be Brown!!👍🏿

  • @LibertyNotLicense
    @LibertyNotLicense Рік тому +2

    Super timely video, DtG, and sage advice!
    I've decided to go with the most certain to produce crops this season!
    After a couple of decades in zone 10, I'm now growing sand spurs and fire ants!

  • @lastchanceshinythings47
    @lastchanceshinythings47 Рік тому +1

    And then came the grasshoppers. Thick as thieves n.e. Texas.

  • @stanclayton221
    @stanclayton221 6 місяців тому

    Like you talk about in the video at the 3-minute point, I grow the 3-sisters. Only in my case, since I live near the Eastern Cherokee in SW NC I grow their recommended varieties; White Eagle dent corn, Greasy pole beans, and Candy Roster winter squash. My point? To have success with 3 sisters you have to grow varieties adapted to you local conditions. I'll bet you can find Native American varieties for close to your location on the internet within 5 minutes.

  • @JosiahK555
    @JosiahK555 3 місяці тому

    Nebraska zone 5b. I really like sweet potatoes. And it does get hot enough to grow them. The trick is to stay growing the slips inside in February and transplant middle of May. I think a simple green house could extend the end of the growing season from mid September to mid October. The only catch is it better be warm enough in your house in February. Something to could be an issue in grid down survival situation..

  • @OffGridishHomestead
    @OffGridishHomestead Рік тому +1

    found your channel years ago when researching composting toilets. enjoying the current content, especially your advice to experiment and start with what works in your area. thanks!

  • @maryannpeel7549
    @maryannpeel7549 Рік тому +2

    And okra

  • @jeil5676
    @jeil5676 Рік тому +1

    Is it comfrey?

  • @reeferfranklin
    @reeferfranklin Рік тому

    0:33 POLK COUNTY!!! Yeayeaye! I was born in Lakeland and lived between Plant City & Lakeland my whole life.

  • @jeremytrusty4845
    @jeremytrusty4845 Рік тому +2

    Sweet potatoes!!! They love it here in 8b, cassava, beauty berry, but everything I know I learned from "David the good" 😊

    • @jeremytrusty4845
      @jeremytrusty4845 Рік тому +1

      On my first attempt, 1st garden ever got 150 lbs of sweet potatoes in a 10'x20' bed, and I did everything wrong

    • @ashleycampbell8767
      @ashleycampbell8767 Рік тому

      @@jeremytrusty4845 sweet potatoes are great! Pretty hard to screw em up.

  • @dfreak01
    @dfreak01 Рік тому

    So... pot, Christmas trees, filberts, blueberries, wine grapes, timber, cheese, crabs & salmon. Sounds like a salad! Let's not forget the different 'blackberries'.

  • @bobbyamandaflores4470
    @bobbyamandaflores4470 Рік тому

    Haha Polk county 863 . My hometown . I’m in north ga now 7b . Thanks for all your videos , and knowledge !

  • @childofgod94
    @childofgod94 Рік тому

    Rye whiskey, rye whiskey please don't let me down . I'll take me a drank and then I'll roam around.....- Jim Tom
    Gotta love ol' Jim Tom

  • @timmooney2460
    @timmooney2460 3 місяці тому

    David I am located in Deltona Florida. I have just started some pigeon peas. Do you have any advice?

  • @rjo49
    @rjo49 Рік тому

    Second comment (is that allowed?): unfortunately finding out what the original inhabitants grew isn't necessarily going to be of much use. Blame our restless cosmopolitan lifestyle, "free trade agreements", lax luggage inspection procedures, even railroads and interstates; all of them have facilitated the spread of diseases and insect pests from all over the world to your backyard. I subscribe to an industry newsletter and hardly a week goes by without a report of some new strain of mildew, appearance of a new insect or a new local sighting of a pest from far away. We've managed to wipe out the American Chestnut, overwhelm native plants with invasives, most recently face the destruction of the citrus industry in the state whose symbol is the orange, destroyed countless thousands of square miles of redbay forests and threatened the future of avocados. The reason more growers aren't producing heirlooms or using strict organic culture is at least partly due to the introduction of insect and disease enemies of those old non-resistant varieties. The second thing I'd mention in that regard is that we haven't always been aware of alternatives from less-familiar cultures. We did get most of our cultivated food crops in America from Europe and a few from Asia, but many gardeners are still unfamiliar with entire species of highly productive food crops from climates very similar,to our own here in the American southeast simply because there hasn't been anywhere near as much migration from those areas and because of the resistance on the part of so many consumers to trying anything new or remotely unfamiliar. Even yard-long beans and perennial bunching onions, productive plants with long harvest seasons perfectly suited to the challenges of our humid heat, are almost never seen outside a handful of Asian markets.

  • @FM-qm5xs
    @FM-qm5xs Рік тому

    Canna edulis is becoming my top staple. It's like having potatoes with zero effort. I don't even water them. I still grow sweet potato but mostly as a summer leafy vegetable. I rarely get much in the way of sweet potatoes with my poor soil hydrophobic soil.

  • @seedsower3857
    @seedsower3857 Рік тому +1

    Wahoo, I'm the first view! I'm guessing sweet potatoes.

  • @erikjohnson9223
    @erikjohnson9223 Рік тому

    Is the top survival crop Atropa belladonna? Just kidding.

  • @NilsNone
    @NilsNone Рік тому

    Yeah I am from Germany. So suvivalfoods are brassicas, potatoes and peas/Beans. Onions and Garlic do greeted too and with the heat and dryness of the past years I am dipping more and more into meditereanien varieties... not to mention the greenhouse for some yummie tomatos ans cucumbers ....

  • @robertb4744
    @robertb4744 Рік тому

    I have been learning about native perennial crops in my part of the world. American ground nut for example. Learn what native Americans grew and ate in your area. Why reinvent the wheel.

  • @danfay4860
    @danfay4860 3 місяці тому

    Is that why my Banana, coconut,orange trees aren’t growing here in Northeastern Massachusetts ?

  • @daddio7249
    @daddio7249 Рік тому +1

    Farmers often grow what is the most profitable, not what actually grows best. Also those crops may need chemicals and fertilizers not generally available to the public. The field in front of my north Florida home has been in potatoes almost continuously for 100 years, 25 when it was mine. Despite knowing how to grow them I do not get much from my garden, many of the vines die early and the potatoes under them rot. I no longer have a restricted pesticide license and can not buy those and the expense would be prohibitive for just a few fresh potatoes. Much easier to "obtain" them by walking a few yards past my driveway.

  • @9tenabigfathen403
    @9tenabigfathen403 Рік тому +3

    It seems like such a waste because Irish potatoes are so cheap at the store, but I’m learning that they produce and the deer don’t wipe them out. I even managed to grow this year’s off of saved last year potatoes. Zone 8a/7b South Carolina. I need to hunt the deer probably. That would expand my options that grow outside of tall fences.

    • @thisorthat7626
      @thisorthat7626 Рік тому +1

      @9tenabigfathen403 I agree that potatoes are so inexpensive, they aren't worth growing in my case. Same with onions, though I do grow green onions as they are easy to grow and are great for cut and come again. Though I will stock up on both in case things change. Cheers.

  • @ml.5377
    @ml.5377 Рік тому +5

    Here in Peru we have ovet 3,000 varieties of potatoes. I grow our favorites and try new things. Yacon, uncucha, olluco. I am growing sweet potatoes in the green house. A local farmer just told me to try with bananas, red papaya and pomegranate. He says they did it in the old days. I am ready to try. We exchange seeds with some people and I have also been able to grow amazing herbs, fruits, greens and tubers that do great in my climate but nobody has.
    I always say is playing kitchen... Some things work and some do not, but you will not know until you try... And not only once. Sometimes yo mive your sowing time , you change the soil type or the watering and boom, you get a crop. No time for discouragement in the garden.

  • @RocketPipeTV
    @RocketPipeTV Рік тому

    9:53 this is probably the best advice in this video! Experiment as long as it’s not essential for survival.

  • @MichaelWaddingtonDO
    @MichaelWaddingtonDO Рік тому +1

    What a simple and clear message. Nice job.

  • @russellstraker8040
    @russellstraker8040 Рік тому

    Couldn't help but thinking Bic lighter around the two minute mark

  • @nancyfahey7518
    @nancyfahey7518 Рік тому +2

    I am so happy you are where you are today. It's been a long journey.

  • @TrickyVickey
    @TrickyVickey Рік тому +1

    My three sister’s choice’s are Hastings Prolific corn(multi-purpose), Seminole Pumpkin Squash, and Rattlesnake pole beans. Only one of those is “native” to my 9b-10a zone. I have some of the corn growing for the first time in poor sandy Florida soil with no amending(with the other two sisters). A live or die experiment at this point.
    I recommend growing native things. Stuff you do not have to tend very much if at all. Citron melons would be a good choice for here.

  • @RocketPipeTV
    @RocketPipeTV Рік тому

    Asparagus is one of my favorites! Plant once, harvest for a lifetime

  • @cbak1819
    @cbak1819 4 місяці тому

    I live in Western NY Thanks for the tips ;)))

  • @patriciaserdahl5577
    @patriciaserdahl5577 Рік тому +2

    Awesome advice David I took notes 📝 👍 God bless 🙏 🇺🇸

  • @truthseeker9688
    @truthseeker9688 Рік тому +1

    Wait for it.......Comfrey, right??? LOL

  • @agb6330
    @agb6330 Рік тому +1

    We love beets! Trying turnips the first time this spring and nothing has come up yet. It’s been 2.5 weeks….. 😢. Maybe I’m not patient enough. Just got back into veggie gardening last year after working and commuting. It’s been a few years but so grateful for all the good UA-cam channels! David here, I am Organic Gardening (close to my zone), No Till, 1870s Homestead. Have to guard time for actual gardening 😂

  • @mitsealb3609
    @mitsealb3609 Рік тому

    You’re not horrible to listen to at work. Just saying.

  • @sathancat
    @sathancat 5 місяців тому

    Lots of wisdom here, thanks David