Self-Sufficiency Starts With These 9 High-Yielding Crops

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  @elpablo891 · 6 months ago

  "I like people (in small doses)" 😆 - I can relate

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  @adventurecreations3214 · 6 months ago

  Remember. No amount of money can buy the quality of food you pick fresh from your garden.

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  @shadiamashaleh8920 · 6 months ago

  Dandelions are very useful plants. Don't disregard them. You can make wine from the flowers, eat the leaves in salads or dry them with the flowers to use as a tea to stimulate the gall bladder, and roast the roots to grind and use as a coffee substitute. I also mix the ground roast root with proper coffee to make it go further. There is inulin in the roots which is good for peristalsis. And they are free!!

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  @PenB-r6l · 3 months ago

  I am not sure which zucchini you grow there, but here in the SE of the USA, the plants get massive due to heat and humidity. I grow things I like to eat.... I don't care how cheap or expensive they are in the store. If I grow it, the quality is a million times better, it's not toxic, and my varieties are not something you can buy at a store. And I love to garden... that's my biggest reward.

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  @sarahfeelsgood · 6 months ago

  Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Huw. I recently left my corporate desk job to work on a farm, and I’m focusing on self-sufficiency as much as possible (especially since I’ve dropped my income substantially and now live in a really remote area 😅). I’ve learned so much from you, and am definitely taking notes from this video. Congrats on your book launch!!

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  @PriyaPans · 6 months ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8">0:00</a> intro<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=101">1:41</a> category 1: Plants that are planted once and harvest repeatedly. Perennials <br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=145">2:25</a> rhubarb. march-july, slug trap<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=195">3:15</a> variegated kale<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=280">4:40</a> dandelion, nettles<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=296">4:56</a> blackcurrants<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=361">6:01</a> category 2: high yield annual crops<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=374">6:14</a> mentioned potatoes, but onions<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=391">6:31</a> courgettes, cucumbers, mention of runner beans<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=539">8:59</a> broad beans, field beans <br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=623">10:23</a> coriander and herbs mentioned<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=635">10:35</a> Category 3: leafy greens<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=662">11:02</a> &nbsp;lettuce<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCavgRXLLm8&amp;t=770">12:50</a> Chinese (Napa) cabbage<br>- leafy greens, multi use

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• KY

  @kymhouse8158 · 6 months ago

  I use (the mostly single use) brown paper bags from super market to make cups to grow seeds in. I tear the bags up into smaller squares, mist them until soaking, let them soften and then push them into muffin trays or seed starting trays and then let them dry put before using.

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  @tonyfranklin2179 · 6 months ago (edited)

  I started in 2019 to start growing food for my family and for a job if I lost my job and little did I know a pandemic would happen a &nbsp;year later &nbsp; 2023 I raised a turkey for Thanksgiving then last year I grew sweet potatoes and my dad made a pie &nbsp;i&apos;m hoping to bring more food to the table this year

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  @barbaramackinder3366 · 6 months ago

  I have a veg garden and also grow some berries and currants here in &nbsp;the SW. During 2021, when I had more time (due to covid restrictions), I weighed every thing I harvested. At the end of the year, I figured out what all those crops would have cost to buy in a supermarket. It was around £2K. &nbsp;I discovered that about three quarters of that was the cost of the &nbsp;soft fruit even though, in terms of weight, I had far more veg than fruit. &nbsp;So, if saving money is a top priority, based on my experience, soft fruits are your friends.

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  @LindaKline-t8l · 6 months ago

  Your book arrived, I was so impressed! it is the best garden book I have ever seen, I will be buying these for gifts! I have a lot of garden books but yours is the best! Thank you for all you do for us gardeners!

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• MA

  @maryjane-vx4dd · 6 months ago

  I planted a hardy kiwi, 150 red onions and put together another raised bed today

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  @OnionGrassFoodForest · 6 months ago (edited)

  I&apos;m attempting to be self sufficient with greens this year and to have greens nonstop from spring until autumn. So, I&apos;m planting a wide variety of them, both perennial and annual.

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