If I Had To Pick ONLY Three Crops For A Survival Garden...

if I could just grow three things in the garden to survive for the next year what would they be out of all the choices anything I've grown over the years what would be my top three crops if I had to only plant three crops to survive you know for my family to survive for the next year my choices are based on what I've grown that has been successful for me the most productive for me and the least crop failures let's do them one at a time number one are beans I grow green beans but many of these varieties you can eat as green beans and then you can also shell them out why do I say beans yeah we've had some Mexican bean beetle problems in our time but I have never planted beans and not gotten a huge amount of food from the beans so I've never had a crop failure with beans they always are productive I can always fill up you know baskets with beans that's why they're at the top of my list another reason that at the top of the list is because the protein in them and when you're growing veggies protein can be a challenge if I had to survive on just three crops beans is my number one number two these are sweet potatoes but that's not number two for me because I've never grown sweet potatoes until this year number two butternut squash ye butternut squash on this list well I'll tell you they're pretty resistant to any pests I've seen in the garden unlike yellow squash zucchini which can just be knocked out the butternut squash I have grown it gosh how many times maybe five or six years I've never had a total crop failure and I'm almost every year had boxes of butternut squash it stores with minimal effort and it's highly nutritious you can fill your family's bellies with butternut squash if I could only grow this three crops to survive butternut squash would be on it because it's nutritious and it's a real producer in my experience number three is harder I'm sure on beans and butternut squash but number three is harder because I'm thinking about corn but potatoes man potatoes are such a close choice this is actually the plant that got me thinking about shooting this video these are sunflowers and I was thinking what's something that I've that's the easiest thing to grow that's always growing well and sunflowers is that it's the easiest thing to grow I've never thrown down sunflower seeds and them not come up if you look at just their size I mean the sunflowers dwarfed everything else they're just grow like crazy they all produce seeding heads but I don't know if I can put sunflowers on this list because for us at least they're not a main food crop we'd really have to change your diet they probably do though meet the requirements of protein and high nutrition very productive and fat potatoes that's what I decide you might disagree or agree on the nutritional benefit of eating a lot of potatoes but if you pair them with a good protein and with squash you could fill your bellies with potatoes easily from you know a moderate sized garden and they're easy to store that's that that's the thing that probably wins me over to potatoes they're easy to grow and they're easy to store so in review my top three survival crops if I had to pick right now just from my experience beans butternut squash and potatoes I would love to hear your top choices if I asked you the same question so if you could only pick three and you had to pick now leave a comment below and tell me your three crops and what you think of mine [Music]

Channel: Bri From Scratch

Views: 1,796,179

Keywords: homestead, homesteading, farm, farming, garden, gardening, survival, prepping, survival gardening, Growing food, food

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Length: 4min 12sec (252 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 27 2018