Survival Gardening Part 3 , economic collapse, peak oil

[etxreabel]

the best animal to keep in this kinda of situation is chickens

[biospharms]

@desertbard, grow anything you can while you can. The bill s510 was singed today and this bill will remove small farm and Gardner rights. Look into buying a biospharm in a free country away from the US government. Search the Biospharm channel here on You Tube.

[desertbard]

Perennials started now would be a great help. Many of your berries and fruit trees will help out alot

[SurvivalReport]

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[oevzA1oL]

On the pesticides seriously consider the variety and breeds of different items to significantly reduce or eliminate the need. For example don't plant a single type of apple tree, tree 2 or 3 different varieties that have different pluses and minuses. This type of stuff takes _years_ to start to reap so more time spent planning on the front end will reap you more later.

Also, for individuals getting started keep in mind cross pollination and make sure to space your trees and plants accordingly.

[AdeptAlbatross]

Awesome video, it'd be great if you had the ratio's of food per person, ie how many rabbits per person or chooks or whatever. Hopefully you've got a video about your fish ponds, farming fish for survival is serioulsy professional.

[LincTexPilot]

This gardening series is very good information, and should be very helpful to a LOT of people. The more others are growing their own food, the less there will be showing up at your door.

[SurvivalZombie]

We have llamas, they produce an amazing amount of fertilizer and leave it in a nice neat pile too. :)

[Eaglecreekbrewer]

It's nice to see someone with a REALIST view of the situation and the understands realities most of today's humans could never grasp. It will be a very ugly time for everyone if it happens, but, millions of the deluded are in serious trouble.

I am enjoying the videos, you've done a great job so far.

5*

[bowmasterpigo13]

what about cow,horses,chickens and rabbits shit that would be another ayy

[jannonymous]

thats living it up!

[GoldenBoughTrader]

@SurvivalReport

Sorry you're having so much trouble with this troll. Since he adds nothing to the discussion I'd just block all his aliases and delete his comments. Of course he'll keep coming back but if you keep deleting and blocking him, eventually he'll go away. Trolls need attention like plants need water. When they don't get it they wither up and die.

[steve219able]

I think this guy brings up some good points. even if you dont buy the whole end of the world thing food prices will go up and it will be a good way to save money

[donze52]

speaking as an old gardener,

I save my seed,

I make my own bug repellet for my crops. 98% of all bug damage is stopped and for free.

fertilizer, use your own PEE, in the winter dig holes and pour it in, then then next spring what you plant will grow for free.

I use rain water and never ground water to grow, thousands of pounds yearly right now,

donze52 for more info, glad to help anyone do what was done 100 years ago.

[heruursciences]

Grow some tobacco too, as well as the obvious use for smoking, it can be used as a rather effective and relatively safe pesticide. VERY NICE VIDEOS BT THE WAY.

[66scjohnston]

thanks!

[Dhumm81]

Jesus is coming soon! The only way you need to prepare for an "apocalypse" is by surrendering unto Him and following His Word NOW before it's too late!

[SurvivalReport]

Yes He is coming soon, but no man knoweth the hour except the Father in heaven. If you think you are going to be raptured out before ANY trouble then I suggest a better study of Matthew 24 and Revelation. Even the small book of Joel has some clues to cross reference. Yes you need to know Him as your personal Savior and know His word.

[Dhumm81]

Sure, the world and worldly people are most definitely waxing worse and will continue to until the fulfillment of that Blessed Hope we call the rapture. I don't mean to say you're wrong for how you're planning for the worst, I just wanted to emphasize the most important step, which it sounds you've already made.

God bless.

[SurvivalReport]

I think we are both on the same page :) Lord bless you also.

[Juliana65]

@SurvivalReport Thank you for acknowledging Mathew 24. Jesus mentions the elect in those versus which indicates that we may be going thru some hard times!!! Alot of people ignore those scriptures in favor of the hope of the Rapture. There is nothing wrong with being prepared and able to help others in the event of an emergency :-) even if a 'Rapture does happen.

[TheDouglasFarm]

You are the first person who I have heard (of the videos I've watched) talk about this. I have wondered about this for so long. Which plants give the highest yeild for the space, time and work! Also, I have been trying to figure out: which give the largest amount of "end product" after 'cutting, peeling etc' for storing. We are learning about best ways to store food. Like which is better- freezing or canning.

We appreciate the videos you all make! Thank you:)

Lisa

[singful]

have you tried mung been aka been sprouts. in highschool i did a little testing and they gave the highest yeald in the shortest time.

[zaaz369]

i think ppl in ancient egypt would bury died fish with seeds for fertilizer.

[PQRLOVE]

Hey, what about dog feces? We feed them a dry hard nugget (with water). The feed does contain some sort of beef by product. However it's low in chemicals.

Can we use this in our compost pit? It cooks pretty good, we always overwinter before use. Two winters for human consumption. (I'm lazy I hate turning). Oh and since last fall we seem be worm people. We got a few worm buckets last winter and covered them in leaves and sheep straw in the old pit. Looks like several gals of castings now

[SurvivalReport]

Most recommend against dog manure for the meat/chemical reasons. Your call on that. Worms are great, we have piles of them in some of the garden areas. Despite the fact that I was told if you "ever" use "any" commercial fertilizer you'll never see a living worm, we have TONS of worms. Vid of some of them in one of the later Gardening videos- 15 or 16 I believe.

[PQRLOVE]

Seems like at the least I'll avoid the young dog that tends to eat everything including occasional feces. The older one and the three cats that are candidates since it's our only source of animal manure. Think I'll avoid anything that looks the slightest bit suspicious however.

What about Milorgamite (or some such) WalMart next to 12/0/12 fert. (no more phosphorus) Both in big bags. Would it be a bit more 'natural' ?

OK, What is it???

Seen it for years, I think.

[ironhead41]

i grow taters around the outside of my dog lot every year. i cant prove that dog crap prevents blight but my taters growing in the same place every year from the dog crap wash off does not have blight.

[WoundedEgo]

From what I understand, dog feces can carry viruses that can be transmitted to humans. Humanure, from a known to be healthy human, is safe for tossing in your compost (do a search for "the Lovable Loo").

Rabbit, chicken and worm compost can be stretched by making a tea by adding some to your water. And of course fish waste.

[bill65761]

@PQRLOVE Dog poop is fine. Steer clear of cat manure due to a shared parasite, but even then a fully worked & aged compost pile will reduce that risk down to negligible levels.

[jacqklin]

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

[jacqklin]

I'd love to help, I really believe there is always something in nature to repulse something else. I will study up on this and send you a message if I can always contact you on youtube,j

[SurvivalReport]

Yes you can contact via youtube or the email address listed on the blog site. I've tried a LOT of things and most of the chems didn't work and ALL of the natural products didn't work. Look forward to hearing from you. You can post your solution here and I'll try it and report back on it. I waited to spray this year hoping that they had went away or that one of these other miracle cures would work, I'm suffering for it now with massive fruit drop on every tree.

[PQRLOVE]

I hope this shows up after the spaying discussion. Being a fan of naturally staying alive I garden Naturally. That seems to say almost organic which is true.

Anyway I found a great product, fungicide hair shampoo, mixed with water and spayed beats any chemical for powdery mildew, etc. OK so I'm lazy, I found foot fungus sprays work even better. Pick up a can and spray.

I use Nizoral for the shampoo and 1% tolfante spay generic for the foot spray. Other products should also work.

[jacqklin]

I disagree about the pesticides. Ive made many from simple herbs and minerals that work to detest bugs...no way pesticides interfer with our nutrition and lowers the amounts of vitamins in the food...we'll need as much of that as we can get. Teach about homemade pesticides

[SurvivalReport]

Awesome, make me one up that actually WORKS for plum circulio and I'll pay you big bucks for it. Sometimes you HAVE to spray to keep from losing trees. I look forward to seeing your video on homemade pesticides, I'll be glad to try anything you provide and make a video reviewing it.

[RCvolunteer1978]

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

[BavarianRaven]

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. :P 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 ^^

[SurvivalReport]

Thanks and congrats! It definitely takes a lot of work.

[CDaza22]

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.

[SurvivalReport]

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!

[xxwnetelxx]

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.

[xxwnetelxx]

land i mean

[SurvivalReport]

Thanks. Congrats! It certainly takes more work than most realize.

[xxwnetelxx]

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.

[ShannCole888]

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 ?

[chancevoughtf4u1]

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.

[RonPaulHopeForUSA]

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. :)

[SurvivalReport]

OK, so what exactly then is the organic control for plum circulio?

[RonPaulHopeForUSA]

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. :)

[SurvivalReport]

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!

[DRUNKMUSICIAN]

Anyone have experience with hydroponics that is growing vegetables for survival reasons?

[Thomasfyren2]

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.

[SurvivalReport]

The southern U.S.

[SurvivalReport]

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!

[SurvivalReport]

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!

[GarlandFrost]

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.

[SurvivalReport]

"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....

[ancalagon12321]

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?

[SurvivalReport]

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."

[shopken1]

Jerusalem artichokes provide quality feed and natural antibiotic properties. They will grow even in poor soils with limited water. Hog & chicken farmers are discovering the crop that can feed from the prolific greens and the tubers that the animals harvest themselves, as the pens are moved over the tuber growing areas. Another benefit is the elimination of most offensive manure odors. I am growing them small scale now as a trial for seed to try on livestock myself.

[shopken1]

Renewable green manure crops can grow on land not suitable for other uses(such as hillsides and orchards) and provide protein for feed as well as Nitrogen and phosphorus for the soil. Potasium from ashes (Favas, soybeans and buckwheat etc)

[SurvivalReport]

We will be covering green manure and cover crops in an upcoming video. With the heat here, we principally use soybeans and crimson clover. Ashes are a good source of P and K for the soil and also act like lime in reducing acidity. When we open a new garden area we typically burn off any brush and wood right where we will garden to get these benefits into the soil. Adds some organic matter to the soil also, which helps in sandy soils like we have down here.

[shopken1]

I will look forward to the video. I lack a lot of needed know-how on cover crop seed preservation and good harvest technique. Our ground is acidic here and wood ashes are the ticket (So Oregon) Thanks for the good info and work.

[SCODgreenhood]

Chemical sprays have greatly damaged our eco-system, and they will run out if the system ever collapses. If the system does not collapse, we need to develop better organic methods if you look at the long term view. Good survival and growing points! Clearly intelligent channel. *****

[sariwat1]

How did these plants ever survive in the wild without fertelizer?

[SurvivalReport]

Assuming you THOUGHT I said all plants must have commercial fertilizer or something, which of course was never said. Guess comprehension skills just aren't being taught in schools anymore, sad.

[sariwat1]

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.

[SpiderMan1307]

My garden turned out great WITHOUT pesticides...I HATE that shit! Anything and everything you spray and put on your plants you also ingest into your body...NOT a good idea. A good way to prevent your ENTIRE crop from getting attacked is to split up your plants into separete sections in your yard, or if you dont have a big yard then grow in seperate pots. That way if one plant gets a disease, it wont spread to the others, but like I said, we have TONS of healthy food and it involved NO spray. :)

[AGreyMan]

Fantastic. I am happy that you don't need that stuff. My experiences have mirrored Lowdown's: Apple trees need some chemichal help.

[SurvivalReport]

Have NEVER used "pesticides" on the garden. However in the interest of not HAVING MORE FRUIT TREES DIE, we have sprayed them. We lost several and pretty much all of last year's fruit crop. Watch the 10th bee video, I AM very reluctant to use any type of chemicals. Doing this on a backyard "hobby" level and doing it on a larger level in order to feed your family (and others) are two different things, we are doing the latter. I don't care for using pesticides either but I won't lose thousands of $

[BanjoNaps]

Great video! Best system I've ever set up is raising fish for fertilizer. If you use bacteria to brake down water waste ammonia terns into nitrate and this is mixed into the water. So you can place a tank or pool system into your irrigation and have self fertilizeing water that is quite potent. Also have you ever used bats? A bat house is a great way to transform moths and misquitoes into rich feritlizer. Its a win win!

[SurvivalReport]

Never messed with bats, although I hear guano is excellent fertilizer.

[BanjoNaps]

Its all in location. They like to be on a pole out in a field or on the south side of a barn. A place were the sun will keep the bat house warm. Their should be a large clear leading up to the entrance of the house, this helps to attract bats. They are looking for a safe place to breed so you have to think about that. Their should be a water source near by. A 40 dollar house can hold 200 odd bats. They eat their weight in bugs every night.

[odin422]

no need to spray.......Nature vs Nature is the way to go.

Great rabbit vid

[SurvivalReport]

Sure wish it was that easy :) Our experience with it has not been that easy.

[yec1JF]

Nature vs Nature sounds good when your reading the books, but my experience has been that in the real world it very rarely works. The lady bugs just don't come close to keeping up with the aphids in the real world.

[odin422]

i only eat about 10-15% meat now

[kevlarthehorribleone]

Good info.

Subscribed.

[ytstef]

Wild plants are also important. There are so many you can easily survive. Most of weed is eatable.

[SurvivalReport]

Wild edibles are a great way to SUPPLEMENT your food storage and food production efforts. Relying on them SOLELY as a food source isn't the best idea for long term survival. Also, caloric intake from most of these are VERY low, preserving them can be a problem also. Supplement yes, sole source of nutrition, no.

[ArboriusOwns]

Do you have any tips for dealing with animals? I heard squash but I planted zucchini and egg plants and the deer seem to love them all. I heard deer avoid potato so I just planted some last week to see if they bother them. If you have any tips to keep deer away I'd love to here them

[delta69alpha]

well, if its legal in your AO deer is a very heathly source of protien ;)

Bob

[SurvivalReport]

Might sound crude but a fair amount of male urine around the garden area does seems to work for us for wild rabbits. You always hear stuff like "plant onions and garlic, rabbits will run from it." We have NOT found that to be true. Fencing your garden area well will help to an extent. Do you have any dogs?

[ArboriusOwns]

No dogs. I've heard that potatoes are poison to deer and they avoid eating anything around the potato because of this but I'm just trying this my potatoes haven't broke ground yet.

delta I live within city limits and my daughters would never forgive me if they saw me with a dead deer, lol. although we do eat plenty of deer meat.

[SurvivalReport]

Never heard the potatoes are poison to them thing, might be worth a try though.

[InTheSticks1881]

Thanks for the reality check.

[mrzack888]

too much hard work.

if the apolcalypse comes i'm just gonna lay down and die.

[SurvivalReport]

Exactly, LOL. I understand that FEMA will be more than happy to take you in and take care of you. I'm sure their will be plenty of "Superdomes" setup around the country that will be ready to lock up prisoners- oops I mean help the unfortunate! ;)

[basszack]

thanks for the info.

[17Revolution76]

A lot of useful information in there, thanks.

[btbblack]

Look up permaculture. All organic and successful.

[Soylentgreensscs]

Just finished my PDC course. It is a very usefull information source and practical too.