Apr
17
2009
Survival Gardening Part 3 , economic collapse, peak oil
Posted by greenthumb in Gardening Videos, tags: 2012, 911, alex, aliens, end, gardening, homesteading, jones, oil, paul, peak, permaculture, ron, survivalist, times, TSHTF, war, y2k
In a new series of video we discuss and will show methods of gardening “when it counts.” The first 3 short videos detail some of the pitfalls and perils to the common survival/preparedness thinking of “when my storage food runs out I’ll just grow a garden.” Intermixed throughout the first three videos are also invaluable tips on gardening and food production for the homestead, survival retreat or backyard in suburbia. The first step in planning to truly grow your own food is to recognize the …
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IT is odd I am trying remember some tricks of growing just enough food for a family of four like I DID MANY YEARS AGO mean while I hear my son 30 yrs old video conferancing with bussiness people in NY also ordering a pizza from his bed not caring about food
Thanks and congrats! It definitely takes a lot of work.
lol finally someone else who realizes how HARD it can be to garden. i have been growing food since i was 11, and it seems i am blessed, for what ever i plant grows.
but back to the point, its good that there are people out there sharing their knowledge. power to you, and pray the end either comes soon or never at all ^^
Yes good idea. Also you can cut the main head of brocolli and it will produce side shoots for a LONG time. We milked one plant for the better part of six months!
Instead of harvesting my broccoli, I have been letting it bloom. A fully flowered broccoli plant attracts so many bees and pollinating insects, I have seen a huge increase in my overall garden output since I started doing it.
the key to a garden is work and work some more.If you want the most of your efforts,keep working on it .they all produce but the work implemented is noticed but the yield.
Thanks. Congrats! It certainly takes more work than most realize.
land i mean
i know you have been working hard to accomplish the food needs of your family by the mear knowledge you express.I have been gardening for 30 years and its a bit more simple for me now than all the things taught on the internet though.If i needed to feed a neighborhood,I could right now without incresed production.
Hey, what about Goats, Goats milk is really healthy for you, that is one of the things they drank in the Bible, and Goats are known to be good survivers,as long as disease doesn’t strike them…Have you also considered Nuclear Radiation,and fallout,Have you got a supply of Potasim Iodide capsules ?
Great videos. Common sense truth. Not modified to be politically correct. I appreciate it. I’ve experienced the enviro-Nazis coming out to the country and being clueless and totally failing with stuff that supposedly works, but fails in the real world.
Thanks for trying to help. I had 8 hens and a rooster foraging in these areas the first two years we had the problem (didn’t know we had it for a while) and didn’t have any such luck. Seeing as they bore into fruit and cause premature falling, are the chickens supposed to climb the trees and get them off the fruit there? As I’ve said, we went totally “organic” for a few years so I HAVE tried some of these techniques. Unfortunately they do not all work like in the books
I wish they did!
I looked up your pest and it seems to me that chickens would do the trick. Theyll peck and scratch up weeds and other garden pests like nobodies business! They do work well in your veggie garden prior to planting. Plus, you get the added benefit of their fertilizing as they work. AND fresh free range eggs are the absolute best.
You can also use food grade diatamaceous earth simultaneously. Won’t hurt the chickens a bit.
OK, so what exactly then is the organic control for plum circulio?
There’s ALWAYS an organic control. Monsanto and the like produce pesticides that deplete the soil and make the environment hostile to growing anything without their fertilizers and pesticides. They do this so we are dependent on their products. Watch this video on Cuba and how they survived their own “peak oil” disaster. The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
And remember- Do not mess with the forces of nature for thou art small and biodegradable.
I deleted one of his comments, which was worse than the one I left.. I’ve had a few bad comments from the enviro-nazis that believe if you EVER use a single drop of commercial fertilizer you might as well be Satan himself, to be honest, it gets REALLY old. “Garland” came off as a total jerk with the “you are by no means telling it like it is”- how would YOU take that? I know what works for us and we are actually DOING this on a scale that feeds our family. Also, I never spoke in “absolutes.”
First of all, I want to say that I’m very grateful for these excellent videos you’ve made.
However, you sounded a little bit defensive in your reply to ‘GarlandFrost’ here.
Also, I’m very puzzled by your capitalisation of “HUMAN MANURE” – are you disparaging it? Why would you? Surely a human produces more manure than a rabbit, and we need everything we can get, right?
Anyone have experience with hydroponics that is growing vegetables for survival reasons?
The southern U.S.
Thanks a lot for posting these videos. I would like to ask you, what kind of climate you live in. That is going to affect my choice of crops.
I wasn’t talking about your plants. I’m talking about plants in general. How they survive in the wild without fertelizer or human intervention.
Rabbits are a great small scale meat source- about the only meat we regularly eat. Look for a series on rabbit raising coming soon on this channel!
For at least the 10th time. We do NOT regularly use “pesticides.” For 7 years we have been reluctant to ever use them. After LOSING numerous trees and a major fruit crop for almost 2 years, we were forced to spray a short lived pesticide. Guess what- it SAVED OUR TREES! We did this after much research trying to find an organic control- THERE WAS NONE!
“Speaking in absolutes?” I assume you mean when I state our experience? Never have ever said anything in these videos like “organic doesn’t work” I suggest a course in COMPREHENSION SKILLS. It’s easy to see that you use HUMAN MANURE for your fertilizer….
we use no pesticides and we use humanure compost. You are offering ONE way to do it. You are by no means telling it like it is. If your way works for you, more power to ya, but you’re doing beginners a disservice by speaking in absolutes.