6 Top Survival Gardening Crops ~~Global Food Shortages? ~~ Crops You MUST Grow!

hello everybody this is Danny from Deep South homestead guys we've been asked by y'all of one question we're getting a lot of this question asked your deep south homestead and it is during the sickness that we're involved in right now and the shutdown of the nation and the situation that we're having to stay home it's got people to thinking and on top of that people are starting to panic they have a small garden space and they're like I don't know what to grow to be sustainable what are some plants they need that I can put in that are in my small space that I can get the most out of for my space and that will benefit me health-wise and I get enough it makes it where they'll actually can be used for many different things we're not about planting things that you just used for one thing here at Deep South homestead we like to plant things that have multiple uses now we do grow one thing crops but for the most most of our crops or crops that can be used for lots of things now here you have one right here beside me this is the old-fashioned multiplying onions I've had these onions for I don't even know how many years now I've had them so long these things I almost lost in this past year because of the drought that we went through and I just didn't take care of them I thought they'd be all right but they still got they pulled through like a champ and here they are right here oh they're fixing to go to seed now we'll probably be saving the seed off of them this year because we want to try to get more of them started but this crop right here is kind of like what they say a lot of time it's a cut-go kind of crop you're fixing a meal you can actually come out here and you can pull some of these off you can say like alright here you're like okay I took one off you can go in take a pair of vegetable scissors and chop this thing up and put it in a meal and you've got onions you got a really good onion tastehh or you can just eat them raw either way it doesn't matter the thing about these is these continually multiply and then when he gets to bu where we live at in our area used to be about July you can actually take a haul up and they're little hard bulbs underneath the ground as a whole clump of them you can break that clump up and you can actually replant it about October and then the following spring this right here is what you get so this is a very sustainable crop to have in a very small space you can room in containers you can do it like this is just a little small area here maybe three foot by three foot it's work perfect there's more onions here than one that I was going to use for a lot of things so this is our first thing is multiplying onions okay guys we're up here in the front garden now and I want you to look we have elephant garlic growing here now it doesn't have to be elephant garlic but elephant garlic where we live at is very prolific in the heat down here it could be any of a number of cons of garlic that you have the grows good where you're at whether it's soft neck hardneck garlic whichever one the garlic is a lot like the onions you can you can leave the bulbs in the ground and they'll just continually grow this whole row of garlic we have here we hardly ever dig it up we just come up here and get what we need and it continually multiplies in the ground and the bulbs just get larger has lots of medicinal properties to it plus it adds lots of good flavor to your food and it is very sustainable you don't have to worry about it and it can grow in a small area you can put it in a container you can put it around a tree along the edge of a fence row anywhere either way it could be any edge of a raised bed and it's very sustainable so garlic is our second choice now along with garlic comes garlic chives we have them growing here at Deep South homestead they are almost like a weed you can't get rid of them once you start them and they are they make excellent borders and stuff like that around beds and things they are very sustainable very nutritious and very good for your food okay next our pick would be potatoes now potatoes are one of those kind of things that is very easy to grow it takes no skill whatsoever to grow a potato you have to realize it it likes acid soil and not sweet soil he likes the pH to be about 5 to 5.5 rather than any higher which means it will grow good in most grounds unless you have an alkaline soil where you live at and guys potatoes are one of those things that can be used for anything you can dehydrate them and you can can them you can leave them fresh you can store them they can be used in soups salads french fries I mean you name it you can fix them in so many different ways that's why here at Deep South homestead we love them so much is because they can be used in an array of different ways they're kind of like when you're using ground meat when you go to store to buy ground me you know ground meat can be put in anything and that's kind about the way potatoes are potatoes are very sustainable they will last from year to year basically if you're up north and they are just delicious they're loaded with good nutrition they have a high glycemic index it depends on how you fix them as to whether not the glycemic index is higher or lower the guys potatoes are fantastic now here at Deep South homestead this year we have 10 different varieties of potatoes we're trying we're going to see out of the 10 which one does the best because going into this grand solar minimum that we're going into we won't all lead the best producing crops for here at deep snow homestead that are sustainable ok guys our next pick would be any kind of winter squash or small pumpkins now our pumpkins in general now here we have the spaghetti squash planted here these things are so sustainable they're loaded with nutrition they take the place of spaghetti if you've like me have a gluten issue and you like spaghetti you can eat the spaghetti squash and get your spaghetti in it that is one of the things that I love about them so much they have a very hard run on the outside of them if you let them go to full maturity they last all winter long they're very sustainable very nutritious very beneficial to have on the homestead you don't have to can them you can just set them on a shelf as long as they stay dry and cool you don't have to worry about them they usually will hold and they fall into a group with like we sell the Cherokee tan the Seminole pumpkins these little small pumpkins about this big around we have some very good to eat very nutritious guys it's all about raising the right food in a small space now the Cherokee tans and is the getty squash any of your winter squash things like that there's go of ein and run everywhere but if you have fence rows or something Oh like that that's perfect because they'll run down those fence rows and hang on the fences and stuff like that they do really really good the Cherokee tan specifically is a very disease resistant very insect resistant it's just a good small pumpkin to have the spaghetti squash here is very good to have because it's disease pest so guys I recommend any of your winter squash or small pumpkins or large pumpkins do real well for being sustainable okay we're over here at our cold frame now and guys look at the sweet potatoes here this is the way you grow sweet potato slips in the dirt now these are a very nutritious low maintenance low actually require low fertilization really because they'll grow in just about any soil as long as it's a not hardened packy they'll do fantastic how they they do really good in our climate now here where it's warm at they don't do so well up northwards really cold there but down here they do good now you can plow them in containers and they do fantastic I'll grow them in containers I'll grow them in the fields I'll grow an array of different ways now okay guys these these grow really good in the ground like this ours are very healthy looking now these potatoes are planted about six inches deep in the dirt some of them for just depends on how they ended up easily four to six inches deep that way you have a chance for me to get some roots started on the bottom of them there's been kind of dry here so I don't anticipate a large amount of roots on the bottom of these but there are probably some pretty good roots starting on okay we're gonna look in here we're gonna see if we can find this one that's got some roots on it now I'll kind of show you what I'm talking about this I hate to pull on too hard but we're just go ahead and pull it real easy they won't break too many of the roots off there we go now you have them they'll look like this right here now what I'll do is come in here and I'll take off some of these leaves like that and then I'll go stick this thing in the ground they see the root system on it I'll go stick it in the ground up to right about this point right here cuz that's all you really need out of the ground is the top of it right here and we'll water it in real good you guys this thing going to take off and Cadillac from that point on now if you have sweet potatoes that are already sprouting and already have the slips on them and they just because the potatoes older you can actually clip that off and go put it in a glass of water and Alexei make roots and then you can plant it and he'll still grow potatoes just like this one here we'll okay oh no sweet potatoes are just like the regular Irish potatoes we call them you can get them in red you can get them in blue you get them in white I mean they're all different ones we've got the white ones growing right here we've got the red ones growing right here so guys I also have a sweet potato manual you can go check it out overall deep south homestead NC calm I have a manual that tells you everything about planting sweet potatoes it's got all color pictures and actually has recipes in the back if you want to try them out so go check that out we also have a whole playlist of videos you can go watch of us planting on those harvesting them I was taking care of a plow and I'm doing everything that we do with them and go check out the playlist of sweet potato videos check out the sweet potato manual and guys this is one of our other picks for a sustainable food on the homestead alright guys our last pick for the being sustainable on the homestead if you live in the south is all seven or below sugar cane it is one of the best sugar substitutes you can get you can make your own syrup you can make your own sugar you can make all these things out of it if you lives on seven and above to about zone six I think it is you can use sorghum and does just the same thing as sugar cane does and if you live above those zones then you can grow sugar beets and you can make your sugar and your sweetener some sugar beets the guy's a sweeter on the homestead is one of the alternative things that you've got to have that you need to be able to sweeten things with here we have an entire playlist on sugar cane all squeezing it all making syrup out of it guys how to plant it how to grow it how to reproduce it everything to do is sugar cane we have a video playlist on that but you sugar cane to us here in the deep south is just invaluable because we need it for our sweetener if something happens and you can't get sugar you need a way to be able to sweeten things on your homestead and like I said remember the zones zone eight I was on seven and below you can do the sugar cane is on seven and above to about six the sorghum anything above that you can do the sugar beets and it works out fantastic guys so remember you need a sleep nur on your homestead okay guys these are some of the things on the homestead that we believe here at Deep South homestead or sustainable they're very nutritious and they can be used in a ray of different ways to keep you healthy and strong so thank you guys from Deep South homestead

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Length: 13min 29sec (809 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 30 2020