With WWIII around the corner and the possible rationing it will bring, will you be caught flat footed? Or will you already be snacking on early spring vegetables like I am?
Time to plan a garden, get seeds, fertilizer (which comes from Russia btw), etc. You don't want to eat stale UN food aid bars all fall and winter do you?
i'm still eating on squash i picked in october btw
onions and taters too
why would you need fertilizer? just get chickens.
they turn your compost for you as well, feeding? chuck your meat scraps or road kill in a bucket with holes in the bottom and you have a maggot feeder. and every now and then chuck a handful of scratch out
chickens = rats dude
i don't want rats
i compost but commercial fertilizer is cheap and effective for certain uses like fruit trees, i have a pear and an apple
i bought an extra bag this last trip to the store, who knows when the price will doube overnight
what are some efficient crops to farm?
I don't think gardening alone can sustain someone.
Most plants need 3 to 4 months to fully develop but what are you going to eat in the meantime?
squash, pumpkins, peas which can grow in nearly any conditions, potatoes which are good unless there is a hard frost, tomatoes are tasty but nearly devoid of nutrition, but hot peppers are good, onions garlic
this year i have a test crop of saffron crocuses and also a 2 year old oak tree that was inoculated with truffle fungus, which has already yielded some truffles
My plan is to eat the bugs like Any Forums is always warning me about.
>With WWIII
YES YOUR SHITTY LITTLE GARDEN WILL BE IMMUNE TO RADIOACTIVE DUST AND FALLOUT SOMEHOW. YOUR SUCH A GOOD LITTLE SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE!
>I don't think gardening alone can sustain someone.
90% of my produce is what I grow. I live near the ocean and it rarely freezes here, so I grow kale, celery, cabbages, turnips, etc. in the winter, as well as potatoes, and peas. I can easily eat nothing but what I grow. Also the ocean is only several hundred yards away, I can take my little cart down there and harvest seaweed and mussels and I do.
>chickens = rats dude
cats = no rats
retard
I already have two big canvases which are oiled and big enough to cover the whole garden. I also have a greenhouse. I can just cover up the garden when the nukes go off, peel off the fallout laden tarps, and carry them to some kind of decon area. Boom, pristine garden.
cats will never ever get every rat, period
half the time they just play with 'em and let the rat go
Courgettes/squash are the easiest and just a couple plants will produce a lot of food for you. Leafy greens are the hardest to grow in my experience and usually get infested with caterpillars. Stuff like tomatoes and peppers/chilli are easy and pests don't attack them. Potatoes are also easy but you need a lot of space and don't plant them too early as you might get blight if you live somewhere with cold damp mornings. Peas and beans are also pretty easy and pumpkins, which you can keep through winter.
leafy greens are tough unless you can get a stalked kind, then they turn out ok
if you put a ring of tinfoil on the stalk the slugs and snails, which around here are the real enemy, won't climb it
Luckily there's almost no slugs and snails where I live, probably because of the 6 months of snow we get. I do have a major caterpillar problem though as I'm near lots of fields with wild flowers. I just gave up growing anything the caterpillars like.
Make lactobacillus and spray on soil and plants.
>imagine thinking thats how it would work irl
what a fucking retard larper
Grow what works, that's my motto.
I have some Monterey BT bioweapon coming in, it's a bacteria made to kill all kinds of things. You can buy it from organic gardening supply places. But it's designed to kill a huge spectrum of things. I used it on my tomatoes last year and it cut damage down to nothing.
that's how it works, fallout "falls out" of the sky in the form of particulate, in this area it's wet so it'll stick and most of the fallout is de-atomiticized in 2 weeks
2 weeks
Do you not know the difference between a house cat and a farm cat?
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Spinach is a season long harvest and while low in calories, is a good way to add volume to a meal which can make you feel full.
I'm growing that and tomatoes, beets, strawberries and nasturtiums (a fully edible flower you can serve as a salad green). I might also grow potatoes if I can make some room for them in the yard.
that's lovely, user. sounds comfy.
Tins of baked beans aren't even 1 dollar here nigger.
Stop breaking your back and start buying tinned food
wtf
soon to be radioactive seaweed
Literally everything?
Keep an animal in captivity and it will obviously not know how to survive on its own.
Give it freedom and it'll learn from its own instincts on how to perform the functions we humans have always kept cats around for before "modern" civilization.
Fuck. I need to plan my raised bed starters and let them sprout for summer. Thanks for the reminder OP. Looks like I need to go to bed so I can get up a little early.
>plastic
ngmi
We moved here on purpose, it's great. Also a zero fallout zone.
See above. It's not a problem.
Gardening is something even squirrels manage to do, and ants. Humans undoubtedly learned it by watching animals.