7 Survival Crops to Grow for MAXIMUM Calories
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I wonder if we were to boil the crap out of those fartachokes with a few bay leaves in the pot, it would take some of the wind out of them. Seems to work on beans.
There's another crop I'd like to grow if I could find starts for them. and they are a starch. Water Chestnuts. I love those crunchy little things. No clue on their calorie data.
Date: 2023-05-28
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Bobbun
The right way to figure out if you can grow your own food is to weigh everything and do the accounting, not to cut the grocery store cord then starve and cheat. The USDA has a searchable database that includes calories per 100g. I am pretty skeptical of some of the amounts given in this video. Exactly what you can grow and the yields will vary quite a bit with climate, soil, luck, how much space you have and how much money you can spend.
Where I live, corn is pretty much the calorie king of the garden--it likes the hot summers and doesn't require a really long growing season. Winter wheat also works nicely, though it does suffer some in the period before harvest from warmer than ideal temperatures and wet conditions can complicate harvesting. Sweet potatoes work as long as they get put in pretty quickly once the weather warms up so that they have enough time before cool weather in the fall. White potatoes. I wish I had better luck with them. Unfortunately, the weather here goes from freezing to scorching really fast, which makes it hard to grow a cool weather crop that doesn't tolerate frost. I haven't tried fartichokes, but I bet they would do well.
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The right way to figure out if you can grow your own food is to weigh everything and do the accounting, not to cut the grocery store cord then starve and cheat. The USDA has a searchable database that includes calories per 100g. I am pretty skeptical of some of the amounts given in this video. Exactly what you can grow and the yields will vary quite a bit with climate, soil, luck, how much space you have and how much money you can spend.
Where I live, corn is pretty much the calorie king of the garden--it likes the hot summers and doesn't require a really long growing season. Winter wheat also works nicely, though it does suffer some in the period before harvest from warmer than ideal temperatures and wet conditions can complicate harvesting. Sweet potatoes work as long as they get put in pretty quickly once the weather warms up so that they have enough time before cool weather in the fall. White potatoes. I wish I had better luck with them. Unfortunately, the weather here goes from freezing to scorching really fast, which makes it hard to grow a cool weather crop that doesn't tolerate frost. I haven't tried fartichokes, but I bet they would do well.
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Bruce
great video, thanks! quinoa and potato are also great for cutting carbs/sugars out of the diet, they're two of my daily 'go to's. those kids in your brother's school really missed out, hope they've learned their mistake since then. i do cook my quinoa with boullion and a bit of steak spice just to mellow out that slight ferny taste a bit. both of those plants still give you that feeling of satisfaction from the starch without the negative effects of bread and pasta. i'm a new gardener and only tried quinoa once, i let the seedlings get leggy, didn't harden them off, and i'm sure i damaged the roots when transplanting, so they were small but they still made some seed. can't wait to give it another go, a detailed video on tips and tricks for quinoa in different microclimates would be cool
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great video, thanks! quinoa and potato are also great for cutting carbs/sugars out of the diet, they're two of my daily 'go to's. those kids in your brother's school really missed out, hope they've learned their mistake since then. i do cook my quinoa with boullion and a bit of steak spice just to mellow out that slight ferny taste a bit. both of those plants still give you that feeling of satisfaction from the starch without the negative effects of bread and pasta. i'm a new gardener and only tried quinoa once, i let the seedlings get leggy, didn't harden them off, and i'm sure i damaged the roots when transplanting, so they were small but they still made some seed. can't wait to give it another go, a detailed video on tips and tricks for quinoa in different microclimates would be cool
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Matt
In my personal opinion, if the world is ending and you can only grow one plant that you have to live off of, it would be sweet potatoes.
Nutrient and caloric dense tubers, and nutrient dense vines that are very much edible.
But this is a great list. Depending on where you are, I d add cassava, true yams (dioscorea, and taro. Maybe throw in moringa for likely the most nutrient dense greens possible and high caloric pods.
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In my personal opinion, if the world is ending and you can only grow one plant that you have to live off of, it would be sweet potatoes.
Nutrient and caloric dense tubers, and nutrient dense vines that are very much edible.
But this is a great list. Depending on where you are, I d add cassava, true yams (dioscorea, and taro. Maybe throw in moringa for likely the most nutrient dense greens possible and high caloric pods.
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SeamusHarper1234
How do you like hydroponic gardening? Do you find soil gardening superiour? For my own garden, I usually stick to the nutrient diversity approach. I think calories are more efficiently produced by the bigger farms, and it's hard to buy the really diverse stuff like old strains of Brassicaceae maybe watercress, anything unusual that adds micronutrients.
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How do you like hydroponic gardening? Do you find soil gardening superiour? For my own garden, I usually stick to the nutrient diversity approach. I think calories are more efficiently produced by the bigger farms, and it's hard to buy the really diverse stuff like old strains of Brassicaceae maybe watercress, anything unusual that adds micronutrients.
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Shirley
I m growing three from your list this year: sweet potato (Okinawan purple, yellow bush bean, and amaranth. Fingers crossed. We ve had an unusually cool wet spring for Texas and though it has help the growth so far it has delayed fruiting of my tomatoes. May be in for bumper crop next month?
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I m growing three from your list this year: sweet potato (Okinawan purple, yellow bush bean, and amaranth. Fingers crossed. We ve had an unusually cool wet spring for Texas and though it has help the growth so far it has delayed fruiting of my tomatoes. May be in for bumper crop next month?
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Kara
I grew tons of cranberry beans last year. We ate them all year long and still have a couple gallon bags of frozen fresh ones and a quart jar of dried ones.
Scarlett runner beans were also great and we still have a half gallon jar of dried ones, though we used all of the frozen fresh ones.
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I grew tons of cranberry beans last year. We ate them all year long and still have a couple gallon bags of frozen fresh ones and a quart jar of dried ones.
Scarlett runner beans were also great and we still have a half gallon jar of dried ones, though we used all of the frozen fresh ones.
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Nandodando
110m 2 of sweet potatoes is one years calories for one person.
The gardening/prepper itch makes the idea of having that much unharvested sweet potato left ferrel along a stretch of garden sounds amazing.
What's that 2 metres tall hugelkultur?
Just in case
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110m 2 of sweet potatoes is one years calories for one person.
The gardening/prepper itch makes the idea of having that much unharvested sweet potato left ferrel along a stretch of garden sounds amazing.
What's that 2 metres tall hugelkultur?
Just in case
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Gen
My seeds just arrived! Thank you for the lettuce! I'll tell the kids it's from you when they eat their salads! LOL! Super excited for the Bok Choy, if I can keep the ear wigs off them its the one crop I'm confident I can grow! LOL! Need to look up your trap video again!
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My seeds just arrived! Thank you for the lettuce! I'll tell the kids it's from you when they eat their salads! LOL! Super excited for the Bok Choy, if I can keep the ear wigs off them its the one crop I'm confident I can grow! LOL! Need to look up your trap video again!
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Brad
My seed order went through my account, but it keeps asking me to look at my cart and checkout in emails. I contacted customer service in case it's a glitch. Haven't gotten a confirmation email besides the welcome to the family, either!
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My seed order went through my account, but it keeps asking me to look at my cart and checkout in emails. I contacted customer service in case it's a glitch. Haven't gotten a confirmation email besides the welcome to the family, either!
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General
Last year I successfully grew sweet potato and Jerusalem artichoke dry farming style with no watering and using rain water only. I used a thick layer of mulch to preserve the water in the ground throughout the season.
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Last year I successfully grew sweet potato and Jerusalem artichoke dry farming style with no watering and using rain water only. I used a thick layer of mulch to preserve the water in the ground throughout the season.
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Daiquiri
Very good. Do you have a 3 sisters video? I can't find. Some sites say you can't do with sweetcorn as it's too heavy? I'm in Indonesian tropics so trying to work out what and when best time to plant. Terima kasih
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Very good. Do you have a 3 sisters video? I can't find. Some sites say you can't do with sweetcorn as it's too heavy? I'm in Indonesian tropics so trying to work out what and when best time to plant. Terima kasih
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Carrie
I love sweet potatoes! I ve been growing for about 4 years and added more, another variety, this year. Learning as I go for sure but I feel accomplished with these because I m growing them in MIchigan.
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I love sweet potatoes! I ve been growing for about 4 years and added more, another variety, this year. Learning as I go for sure but I feel accomplished with these because I m growing them in MIchigan.
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Tinkky
Just bought burgandy amouranth from your site well along with a butt ton other things lol no sweet potatoes which i didnt mind i like regular better but my wife was devastated
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Just bought burgandy amouranth from your site well along with a butt ton other things lol no sweet potatoes which i didnt mind i like regular better but my wife was devastated
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Danny
I have 3 patches of Jerusalem artichokes on my property. I rarely harvest them but I think this year's gonna be the year. I hear pickling them reduces their gassiness.
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I have 3 patches of Jerusalem artichokes on my property. I rarely harvest them but I think this year's gonna be the year. I hear pickling them reduces their gassiness.
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