Survival Gardening Part 2 peak oil, TSHTF, food storage

[TheMaelmuire]

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[441rider]

Test for cesium and strontium on west coast.

[Pbinder1981]

Some damn good videos you want some more ti[ps check mine out I know zombies

[bigriks300]

I posted about permagardening on the first one. Since you mentioned trees, if you take that good size tree in the background, graft a solid fruit tree branch on it, at least 2 inches round, you can see that fruit harvest in as little as two years. Now, I wont say it aint funky seeing apples on an oak tree, but hey, it's apples.

Oh, its called "permaculture" if you want to research the methodology. There is just ton's of info about it now.

[bigriks300]

I posted about permagardening on the first one. Since you mentioned trees, if you take that good size tree in the background, graft a solid fruit tree branch on it, at least 2 inches round, you can see that fruit harvest in as little as two years. Now, I wont say it aint funky seeing apples on an oak tree, but hey, it's apples.

[xyzzy29]

If your soil "needs lime", your pH is probably too low. Gypsum won't help that. Gypsum is a pH neutral source of calcium. You've got to get your soil in shape now, not later...

[biospharms]

Small farmers and gardners will be regulated out of business in the US. S510 is delayed until next week so they could bribe congressmen with the 1099 600$ obamacare crap. Retreat off the US shores if there is any way you can. Biospharms are built in safe tropical countries and sustain entire famalies needs on one plot.

[desertbard]

After you prepare your soil, instead of covering it with tarps which does nothing for the soil, layer it with 5 or 6 layersof cardboard. It will biograde and feed the earthworms. It has to be replaced once or twice a year, but it services to make the soil better each year. It will also save on weeds.

[SurvivalReport]

@desertbard That's a lot of cardboard for a large area. Fire hazard and not exactly aesthetically pleasing but I get your idea.

[ConcernedMushroom]

@SurvivalReport

you can use cardboard or newspaper with essentially the same results. I do this currently in my family garden and it is not a fire hazard anymore than mulch is...and if there WAS a fire, I'd prefer to have card board or newspaper burning than a plastic/toxic tarp...as far a aesthetics just cover it up with a little hay from stall or barn cleanings or even fallen oak leaves...looks great and conserves water :)

[SurvivalReport]

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[dawnwinds58]

Chicken manure has tto much ammonia. Mix with wood shavings/chips , let compost and cook for the year. Turn steadily. Horses, cows, can be made into "manure tea" . Place fresh into rainwater, let sit, drain from midway. The tea can be put onto garden, not plants. You are feeding the soil for later.

[oevzA1oL]

Interesting information, good information about quantities of seed storage. We continue to look for less input and more sustainable ways of farming-ranching. We will be trying the Three Sisters Garden and are reading American Indian ways of gardening as they seem to have figured out how to do things with the least amount of external inputs, IOW no external supplementation.

One recommendation is link to sites you mention in the description (shopsimplerliving-com).

[KingRyltar]

@SurvivalReport High ^5 on the short bus comment. Some peeps just don't get it.

[DARTAGNANS170]

Start stocking 0.22 rifle ammunition. 525 shots for 20$ online. The rifle is about 150$ online.

[StLReGuy]

Even if you believe a total collapse won't occur, gardening is a necessary life-skill. TODAY many people are taking up home gardening because of the rising cost of food as well as concerns about the quality of commercially available food.

I ask the nay-sayers "What's your Plan B?"

[medisney]

thank you for the great information, much appreciated.

[jannonymous]

what exactly are we suggesting is going to happen here? if were talking about getting to the point where you have to raise your own food... thats a TOTAL COLLAPSE, in which case there most certainly will not be law enforcement either. Good luck protecting your crops from marauding gangs.

[DaFuckyouat]

@jannonymous

Look up peak oil and peak coal.

[TheMaelmuire]

@jannonymous

If you live in the States, didya happen to notice the price of produce after a harsh winter, and summer? Try 5$ a mater here in TX

I don't know about a TOTAL COLLAPSE but I had a cow!

[TheMaelmuire]

@jannonymous

If you live in the States, didya happen to notice the price of produce after a harsh winter, and summer? Try 5$ a mater here in TX

I don't know about a TOTAL COLLAPSE but I had a cow!

[TheMaelmuire]

@jannonymous

have you heard about tomatoes on the black market, tomato heist, look it up...

[survivalseeds]

Initially, when beginning to plant a garden, start small and work your way up. Have a small garden plot or do container gardening if you are short on space.

[575george]

Hi I just received the seeds I bought from: bepreparednow. net They were only $44.99 with free shipping. It has 27 varieties of NON hybrid seeds and it is sealed in a Mylar Bag. It was the best deal I found on the Internet and the variety is great.

[66scjohnston]

Thank you for these videos!

[66scjohnston]

You mentioned gypsum as a possible soil amendment, I was wondering if you can think of any other items that could add some of the micronutrients. I was thinking zinc, iron, etc. Could you add rusty nails, zinc coated nails or even pennies if you soil is in need of copper?

[sweetelesue]

Even if you can't grow, you can always save your seeds : )

Seeds can become valuable trade items if things go really, really bad...

[liabatud67]

Great information. Thank you for taking the time to share. The number quotients are greatly appreciated. How do you harvest the apples up high on a tree that is not pruned back and still natural?

[SurvivalReport]

Ladders. Sometimes you can give them a light "whap" with a stick also.

[liabatud67]

k, just like the old days. I thought maybe you had a cherry picker or some such. I do know that it was easier as a youth... just monkey up the tree. :P

[SuperHarmless]

Nice, Potatos grow themselves. When I get my house I should have a little garden. Fresh Corn on the cob is one of my favorites. You know your stuff man, good job!

[o0sunsi0o]

4 or 5 pounds of bean seeds per person.....I can see that I drastically under planted :(

[zaaz369]

can you recommend any books for a total beginner? i don't even know where lettuce seeds come from, other than home depot.

[Bloodstryke]

How long do those seeds from simpler living store?

[SurvivalReport]

Seed life varies greatly depending on what seed it is (Corn seems to stay viable a shorter time period than others for example), how it is stored, etc. IDEALLY you want to grow a garden every year if nothing else but to keep fresh seed stock. If you can't do that, plan on rotating seeds every couple of years. Watch videos 5,6,7 this is discussed a little further in there.

[zoneyzoo]

My soil is horrible very sand and rocky. I'm going to go get it tested. But we are also going to bring in some soil and make some gardening boxes.

[SurvivalReport]

Sometimes that becomes necessary. Good luck!

[shopken1]

We also grow in rock and shale. Add tons of organic material and the rocks and sands drainage/heat retention becomes a benifit. Collect as much organic material as you can. We sheet compost on the garden in the winter and heavy compost and hay mulch in the summer. Lots of free or very low cost material once you look around a bit. Variety of mulching material adds to the minerals and nutrients available tothe soil. My favorite is seaweed we get for free.

[johan404]

Yeah we also grow potatoes with seaweed.

[reedsaintjames]

Dude, at 3:52 did you say it "saves on weed as well"? I've listened to it like 20 times trying to figure out if that's what you said.

[SurvivalReport]

Meant that it covers weeds, chokes them out, etc.

[SurvivalReport]

See the 4th, 5th and 6th videos and figure what will grow in YOUR area.

[852rommel]

I like this video a lot. Unlike other videos yours goes more in depth of what you need. I'm only 24 but i've been gardening since i was ten. I used to help my mom in the garden and learned a whole lot about gardening mostly by trial and error. You were talking about the fertalizer problem in your video. A suggestion to solve the problem, after the intial fertalizer application i would just use whole fish or guts that i would have after fishing, because it provides a good amount of nitrogen.

[mountaincwby]

I really enjoy your videos. We think very much alike. Extension office is a great source of info to the 1st timers. Do to the energy intensive nature fertilizer I would start converting to organic methods. You can start improving your soil microbes killed by the fertilizer. Thanks

[SurvivalReport]

See unlike some of the "organo-Nazis" I have done both methods. We were strictly organic for some time. I KNOW the differences. We do QUITE A BIT to improve our soil- see the later videos. But I am not afraid to use rock fertilizers. Course with some of these organo-nazis when you mention that, they automatically assume you must spread DDT on the ground everywhere. Unlike most organic gardeners, we are doing this on a medium scale, not 2 beds for a "hobby." Therein lies the difference.

[mountaincwby]

My family uses a blend of organic and fertilizers I certainly understand. Doing it on my own I'm trying to prepare as if my resources must come from my farm. A few conclusions and theories. I like tractor tires with the side cut out for raised beds they can be tilled and fertilized by hand easily or with chickens. I get higher soil temps earlier in the season. this spring I'll use a hoop house to cover select beds spring 1st the summer crops. I plan to harvest/fertilize with a chicken tractor.

[SurvivalReport]

Roger. Watch the later videos. Unless people are keeping a large herd of big animals- like cows, they are going to have to "import" fertilizer of some kind if they are growing on anything more than a small hobby type scale. We respect the soil and do things to help it all the time. Because I said we used 34-0-0 on the stand of corn the organo-nazis have branned me a heretic I guess! That was however, the FIRST good stand of corn in 9 years. The organic corn was small and not filled out.

[shopken1]

For survival, chemical fertilizer is not sustainable. I am working on methane digesters that use our available wood waste and animal manure to manufacture our own plant food. I will make videos later when I have a good working model

[SurvivalReport]

The idea is that most homesteads do not produce enough manure to fertilize a LARGE ENOUGH area to truly grow all you need. For example, as a test we are doing a pure organic stand of corn- a SMALL stand of corn. It has used EVERY BIT of manure from about a dozen rabbits, half dozen chickens and 2 goats- EVERY BIT of it. Unless people have herds of LARGE animals i.e, pigs, cows, etc. they are going to have to store some fertilizer. Watch the later videos for more info on this.

[shopken1]

Yeah, corn is a massive feeder. Have you tried winter green manure crops yet? I am looking into fava and crown-vetch for fall winter covers. We are relying on too much haul in material here.

[thuddas]

I love the sunshine you have.

Thanks to aerosol operations (chemtrails) blotting out every possibly good day this summer here in scotland, and unnatural amounts of rain (that stopped just after harvest time), and my landlords preference to lawns rather than usable garden ive done very poorly.

Ive lost the $120k dollars (equivalent) that was going to buy some land in europe so now its going to have to be guerilla warfare gardening - growing things out of the way of peoples knowledge.

[TageKaliandrino]

This is going to sound really horrible, but if you want a constant source of meaqt, buy yourself somne rabbits. I know, it sounds awful, but we have three pet rabbits, two female and one male (we are about to get another pet male). We will never eat our pet rabbits but, when it comes to it, when everything crashes, we will allow them to breed and eat their offspring. Sounds horrible, I know, but it is not a silly idea and they are low maintainence and high yield "crops".

[SurvivalReport]

We eat rabbit all the time, nothing wrong with eating rabbits. Great source of protein, low in fat. It's nice knowing where your meat comes from, how it's processed, etc.

[FreeEnergyExpress]

One thing to remember is that rabbits contain no vitamins at all. If you ONLY eat rabbit you will starve to death. You must eat greens too.

Love the videos BTW, I'm year 3 on year gardening and energy production etc.

[SurvivalReport]

Actually rabbit is really high in protein, low in cholesterol. People say you'll "starve" on them because there is "no fat." Maybe on scrawny wild rabbits but domesticated rabbits typically carry some fat- I know ours do. Thanks for the nice comments!

[akahenke]

I live in former eastgermany before the fall of the wall ppl here were gardening and breeding rabits on a wery large scale to be self sufficent. rabbits actualy were a kind of currency wich you could buy stuff with. we have much to learn from the ppl in the former soviet block as they still know how to survive without consuming much.

[SurvivalReport]

Thank you for the insight! Food is always going to be valuable.

[brokenskyy]

Hybrid seeds won't produce seeds, right?

[SurvivalReport]

That's the general idea, however it isn't exactly true in practice. The idea is that seeds from hybrids you've grown, because they have been "crossed" will not be exactly like the parent. That being said- most peas and beans and squash hybrids can be reused (we have anyways). If your having trouble finding non-hybrid, try some of these and domesticate them. We have some seed reused for 4 seasons that were originally "hybrid". That being said, choose non-hybrid where you can! Good luck! SR

[StephaneSandrine]

please get on with the program and stop reminding us on and on what has been already said in video 1. PLus stop talking and start showing How. Thank

[SurvivalReport]

You know, rude comments sure makes someone want to give there time and money to teach people.... You know, being there seems to be so many comprehension problems with people, things HAVE to be repeated a few times, EVEN THEN someone comes with some off the wall comment- "you didn't cover X" when in reality it WAS covered but they just didn't pay attention. If it bothers you so much you don't have to watch Stephie ;)

[MoeKimura]

You guys are doing a great job with the survival gardening, and bring up topics i never even considered. please save your breath on these douchebags.

[D0UBLETS]

I really don't understand why people criticize these videos, I'm sure the person/person's that put together this series has a lot of things to do and the very fact that he/them have taken the time to try and HELP and educate people cannot be questioned.

[onecheshirecat]

Woah, everyone's getting all staunch and ranting on about guns...! You've got to get the community involved in it, I really think thats important. Get the community involved and you have the community's support in the long run when it all goes pear shaped. It can't be each to their own - this in the long term is uneffective. I live in an eco-village and we already trade with the local community, have been doing so for years and it's working beautifully. Peace to all and good luck!!!

[SurvivalReport]

So what about the folks in your "community" that don't prepare? What about the leaches that will STEAL what you've worked hard for? Do you honestly believe EVERYONE in your "community" will share when no more of anything is available and not just when it's cute'sy to do so? So can your "eco village" support the entire community around it? What about the people who refuse to work? What are you going to do with them? What about when they DEMAND food even though they aren't working/helping?

[onecheshirecat]

Gee... hadn't really thought about all those situations. Guess we could just slit their throats with our home-made knives, burn the bodies and sprinkle the ahes around the orchard... the fig trees would love that!!

[SurvivalReport]

Egg Zach Lee. Prior planning prevents poor performance. Great to think "everyone" would be an asset to a community but reality proves just the opposite unfortunately. We'll be talking more about this subject here real soon. Thanks for watching!

[KingKuffar]

Now your talking!!!

[2resist]

Your posts are awesome, and you have a lot of knowledge. I am curious if you have some knowledge or techniques on guns, ammo, and such? Relating to a SHTF scenario. Thanks

[SurvivalReport]

Other than the laser beams on the foreheads of our attack chickens you mean? ;) We are training the rabbits to be suicide bombers. We figure the "ahh what a cute little bunny" approach will fool the looters, when they reach down to pet the bunnies they will detonate thereby dealing with the looter. Just having fun with it! Thanks for the nice comments! SR

[SurvivalReport]

Actually, we subscribe to the "Law of 8" around here :)

[sicophiliac]

Great advice if you OWN land outright. Most people are upside down on their homes or are years away from paying them off, when SHTF and you loose your job what do you do then? Look at the mortgage crisis right now, its already happening. Again let me say its great advice you are ahead of the game but the way things are going I don't think it'll be applicable to a large number of Americans.

[SurvivalReport]

That's true, people that are stupid enough to buy homes they can't afford aren't probably smart enough to find a patch of land somewhere and guerrilla garden. Lazy people don't like effort. Not trying to be trite but the saying that "where there is a will, there's a way" really is true in this application. Also, carrots and beans don't take 30 years to mature. Most house evictions take a while. When SHTF and you loose your job- you fall back on your PREPS. Thanks for the nice comment.

[Tossdart]

What I am trying to understand is are you only eating fruit & beans. I mean I would post more videos excepting for kids being in them of actual what we call growing a garden. With less than 1 lb of bush beans our family of 4 ate mid July to now & we are still eating beans 78 quarts + 40 large blanched freezer bags. 1100 lbs of tomatoes, shall I go on. I'm just a gardener sorry. I mean forget it if you eat like a goose you will poop like one. No pillowy soft in oil crunch. Meat, clothes..,.

[SurvivalReport]

OK, sorry you didn't make much sense in the other comments either, so understand ahead of time that I can't really understand your comments. Short fat bald technologist be insane. ???

Where in the heck did I say we "only eat fruit and beans?" Wow, I realize a lot of folks now a days lack comprehension skills, but when did I say that? First off, I've shown WHEAT and soybeans we have growing, second off, who says I have or WOULD show "everything" we do. Sorry but I can't understand you.

[pchsoccer08]

you still need guns to defend it

[SurvivalReport]

Without a doubt, and SKILL with them.

[SurvivalReport]

Some of these are taped on land we own, some of these are taped at other locations. Thanks for watching!

[Kelvin701Lakeland]

where do you live? can you use extra hands?