6 TOP Crops to Grow to Save You From STARVING!
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Add onions & garlic and I’m on board! Thank you for this. I always love your content!
And for my climate: sweet potatoes 🍠 yummmm
and ginger gotta love ginger
I love garlic and onions but I don’t think either would be you from starguntb
Potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes and silverbeet/kale are my choices for value at harvest
I like the kale and spinach for iron and other minerals. These two are not like lettuce but they pack a punch of needed vitamins and minerals. Love beets too! Can’t go wrong with any root vegetables.
One of the best things with beets is the extra dish from the greens! Somewhere between chard and spinach, why folks throw them out is beyond me.
Thanks @@Deodrix and @JubeeBijou I’ll try some beets to although I might be a little late in the season👌👍
@@Deodrix I agree!
"Kale" 🤣
Sweet Potatoes for both tubers & leaves! 🎉 Green onions as carefree crop that makes almost everything taste better!😊
Good Morning, Mark! I’m in New Jersey and built three raised beds from 22 inches to 33 inches in height all from my deck that I ripped out last summer💪🏽. Filled with logs, wood chips, mushroom soil, manure compost and homemade compost. It’s planting time! 👍🏼
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It's two months gone. How did the planting go and has it been growing well for you?
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@@PhantomFilmAustralia all good!
@@YEMSG That's good! Glad you didn't take your time responding! 🤣
I haven't tried cabbage yet... And my corn never goes well (I don't have the space for enough stalks for a good crop) but the other four are my main staples.
Ive never done good with corn either but have always had problems with worms/catapillars devouring things like cabbage and brocolli.
5 ~ Beans.. Madagascar Beans, 7-year perennial that can be eaten young as a 'green bean", and once dried (on the vine), they make a great base for soups (soak overnight), plus (depending where you live), 2 crops a year
Massive green thumbs up from me. Specially because I can grow these in Scotland more or less with a success. ❤️
Thanks for the reminder Bud! Just went out and planted some old Potatoes that were sprouting.
I just planted all my potatoes here in the us a few weeks ago.
And dispite all the rumors about store bought being sprayed and unable to grow. They are not.
I had a 5 lb bag from Christmas time tgat got shoved out of sight in the bottom of the pantry. M9st of the bag was hairy monsters lol but 6 potatoes were absolutely root free and we ate them.
Its cold and dark in that part of the pantry.
But the rest went right out into buckets with the french fingerlings amd Russian banana fingerling potatoes. I also grow those little fancy creamer potatoes that are the rage. Red and gold ones. They are almost weeds if you dont screen your soil and didn't find every one-they are that hardy.
Thr tomatoes and beans are heading out later this week as our last frost date just past.
I also would recommend if they grow in your area. Fava beans or broad beans. Very high in protein. But they dont grow everywhere I'm told.
Corn, squash/pumpkin, and beans are great companion plants. I forget the exact reasons why, but something like the corn gives the beans a place to climb, the beans add nitrogen to the soil, and the squash/pumpkin acts at mulch/ground cover to hold in moisture.
You got that pretty spot on👍
Natives call that system the three sisters. Many people survive on just that in a number of countries. 🌽🌽🌽🌽
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Thanks Mark. Have a good day. I have planted tomatoes, pole beans, bush beans, okra and squash so far this year. We have had so much rain and weird weather this year in Texas but I think by Mothers day all will be well. Have a great week.
Donna Muĺins how did your okra go? I'm in tropical Australia and wondering if it needs lots of water please?
@@LaSorciereFeuillue We have had unusual rainy weather for Texas. Normally we are dry I only water when needed. I soak my seeds over night and plant recommended growth spacing. I think it is a waste of $$ and seeds to thin any seedlings.
I'm in Zone 8
Love Australia beautiful country.
That "boooyeans" felt like a spring coming loose xD loved it
Always great to have some wholesome food for thought. Thanks.
Thanks mark. Good info. We are about to get fisted harder than the 2008 gfc. Im stocking on bulk tinned food and rice etc whilst growing a heap of our own fresh produce.
You are AMAZING 🤩 Thank you so much for educating the world 🕊️
Brilliant short video 💫 Brilliant subject of not just growing your own food but really thinking about what it is foodwise, nutritionwise, and budgetwise. Superb content 🏆🥇
I literally just had snap peas and grape tomatoes as a snack. I really should put them in the garden
Mark you're such a good bloke, thanks for sharing your wisdom and amazing Dad jokes. Sending good vibes ❤
I have a small garden, but I am planting all mentioned plants. Plus a few others.
G'day Everyone, the full-length video is here: czcams.com/video/tKbHqxI7VFA/video.html Get into it! :)
Will do my friend, checking in from AZ, USA
Thanks for sharing with the world, Washington State, USA
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Okay thanks!!! I'm 3 already groing (Tomato, potatos and beans! Corn and cabage Next!!!
A new one to me this year was Caigua. This grows into a really attractive vine, which I had growing up a trellis at the back of a bed. it produces gherkin-like fruit, which, when small, can be eaten raw. They taste like a cross between a snap pea and cucumber. When they get older, (with inedible black seeds which have to be scraped out), they are too tough to eat raw. Surprisingly, they cook up really well, whether baked, or stir fried. Lots of good vitamins etc, and seemed problem free. I'll be growing them again this coming spring.
Thank you, Mark. I love & appreciate you for sharing your experiences & wisdom all these years to help us.❤️
It’s cool that all of these plants you mentioned are plants you can even grow in very cold regions.
Good on you for pushing this out there Mark. So many are struggling at the moment to feed themselves/family. Keep up the great vibe!! We grow as much as we can and also give our excess to neighbours.
Green Beans and potatoes cooked in stewed tomatoes with chicken is one of my favorite meals. So easy when it's all growing right there.
Thanks Mark😊 Very good list. I love growing my cabbage in the fall and canning my beans and tomatoes for use all year.
That's awesome! 👍😍
As a meat eater. Pumkin leaves is one of my favorite veg. So flavourful bu you need to clean it properly. You can eat the male pumkin flower too. I dont really eat actually pumkin because 80% on market are flavourless
Years ago in mid-late autumn I had a black cherry tomato plant self seed in a crack in the concrete next to my back pergola, I left it to do its thing through the winter, never watered or cared for it in any way, it grew huge and I think I got more yield off it than any tomato plant that I purposely grew and cared for, they truly do have a wide soil type tolerance.
Love your channel brother! We have benefitted from your videos and our little farm is a little better every day thanks for the effort!
I’ve got potatoes, beans, tomatoes and maybe pumpkin growing. Yay! Food for life!!! 🌱
I planted some potatoes a couple of months ago. I am very excited for the results.
Thanks for the best advice. Sir, you make a big difference in my life. The tricks are epic!
I see your sky looks funky in this short video. We are getting jet sprayed every day! Every day in Kansas here
Planting some perennial vege is good too, ones that just keep going even when you don't look after them. Jerusalem artichokes are a good one, you'll never get rid of them! Potatoes just keep coming up everywhere as do tomatoes.
Russel Grow is BACK!
I love the accent on potatos
I am working hard to try and get a home with at least an acre of land I can cultivate and farm on.
Wish me luck!
Also with cabbage, you can turn it into sauerkrout and have a longer lasting source of vitamin c and iron
Thank you Sir! ❤
I definitely am looking for taller garden beds due to a bad back. I love yours! 😊
It's called hugelkultur. I think he did a video about it some time ago..
Corn, beans and squash are a complete protein.❤️🤗🐝
You just described my garden😊
Plenty of nightshade, love it! ❤
I think i just had a great idea.....
Truck bed liners as garden beds.
I think its genius.
They are corrugated at the bottom, raise the back a little so it is sloped for water to run out ,or just naturally do that with the land, stake the back and sides for support fill with your own choice of dirt and boom, a great weedless garden bed.
Or they are also great bins for compost or mulch or whatever.
Thank you my friend, God bless
Thanks Russell.
Corn, beans, and pumpkin are part of the three sisters crops. Each one helps the other grow. You can put them all in one bed or mound. Corn goes first. When he reaches about a foot tall, plant the beans. They will use the corn as a trellis and grow up that instead of needing something separate. Pumpkin is started after the beans start to climb the corn. They’re a huge food provider, but their biggest help is ground cover. It shades out weeds and helps retain moisture in the soil. Together they make complete meals. If you’re careful you can even keep the corn husks for tamales!
Sunflowers, spinach, sweet potatoes, peppers(the hotter the pepper the less likely it'll get stolen), sage, mint(in a pot, if you don't want it to spread), & pomegranate(yes, they can be grown in pots, inside).
Radish is still the champ at growth speed. Cheers
I would subtract corn, you only get a few cobs per plant. Maybe some other more productive crop like sweet potatoes.
What about CHOKO? Planting one of these bad boys can yield you 50+, so long as you have something for them to climb, and a sunny spot.
I don't do potatoes because I don't want diabetes (family tenancy), but sweet spuds are in, because they're year round in Brisbane. Also, choko. You'll never be hungry with chokos growing. And I LOVE them.
So youre saying potatoes can cause diabetes?
Great 6 crops ideas 👍🏿
I should really learn to grow potatoes sometime. We’ve got raised beds and a nice variety of beans, peas, peppers, tomatoes, squash, and eggplant. With the cost of groceries lately, plants and seeds really do pay for themselves.
Good six choices my friend.
Thanks Dude! You are the Best!
In terms of cost/nutritional benefit ratio, those definitely are extremely valuable crops. What I find fascinating is 5 of the 6 (all but cabbage) originated in the Americas.
Thank u its very simple and important your video keep going
I would add beets and change pumpkin to winter squash of certain types. The winter squash you want are the ones with the deep orange color. It contains more vitamins than pumpkin. On tomatoes, you want to get the "indeterminate" types. The determinate ones tend to give you a whole bunch all at once and then nothing after it. The indeterminate types keep growing and spreading and producing.
Some of the "cherry" tomato types will continue to produce green tomatoes long after the season ends and it is too cool. You pick them when they stop getting bigger and let them ripen indoors. This can give you months more tomatoes until the frost kills the plants.
Love you man! Thank you!
God bless you, thank you!!!
Dam I have all these crops in my garden this garden season.
Onions. Onions are like the ultimate food crop for me for three reasons: 1. You can eat any part of them (bulb, stem, flower), 2. You can propagate them from seeds OR scraps of the bulb (roots, which we don't eat), meaning you can eat *and* propagate it, 3. Perhaps most importantly, wild animals like deer and gophers tend to avoid them. Plus, they have strong flavor so they can also be used as seasoning.
Tomatoes are also a good source of vitamin C. Very important.
Halfway there 🎉🎉
Thanks
TAHITIAN BUTTERNUT SQUASH!! Mine got to over 7 pounds, and stored till spring. Taste is wonderful!!
I have all of them, and a lot more 😀😀
Absolutely love this my friend. Cheers from Arizona 👑
Great choice
Great advice as always!😉
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Thank you!.
and all food the mentioned foods are easy to dry and store
good to know, thank you
Thank you Sir
Nice list!
'Survive'...From a 70 year old Aussie bloke Mark - Who has studied 'food' for over 50 years, your choice of carbohydrate type foods (which is converted to sugars and helps store fat and grow cancers) You are not looking like the healthy bloke we started watching 3 years ago. Doctors are the first thing to avoid for good health. And a high fat - Low carb diet is the way to a healthier you. Bless you for your work mate.You've helped many save $$$ Oh..Had covid 3 times and treated it with TCM - Last visit to a doctor 45 years ago.
Appreciate this info!
Should grow peppers too, full of vitamin C.
Nice stems
I would add some unions, garlic and carrots
Pumpkins get decimated by vine borers where I live. I am however growing some of everything you mentioned.
Tried growing potatoes turned out small- tried twice, tomatoes have a disease, pumpkin hardly any - flowers which I hand polllinate, beans eaten by grubs and same with cabbage. Need more space to grow pumpkin too. Minimal bees due to ? council spraying. Only have suburban back yard. 😞 I keep trying though. Thanks for videos. 👏🏻👏🏻
I have reqd that the gel in tomatoes (where the seeds are) is good for preventing blood clots 😊
Thank you again Mark, I love all your content!
I almost never eat corn, so I'd swap that for onions. Don't know how easy they are to grow, but they give a ton of flavour to pretty much everything
Onions aren't hard. They're downright trivial if you get a perennial green onion like walking onions. Bulbing onions do require some research to determine appropriate varieties and timing for your area, but with that research and a little bit of experience they should be no problem.
@@bobbun9630 Thanks!
If youre eating corn to survive/as a major source of nutrition in your diet, look into nixtimalization, which means soaking them in an alkaline solution.
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Great video!
Love all these 😍 Squashes & Zucchinis keep giving too haha. Haha
Top man .
Got 'em all. Hopefully tomatoes don't get blight this year.
Thank you Mark! Very helpful!
I don’t have good luck with pumpkins. Powdery mildew get its.
Gr8 video mate. I just realized, with those crops, you could make the best veggie stew or soup.
Hey Mark,
Do y’all have a Freeze Dryer to help you save your food longer?
They’re Great and once freeze dried your food can last up to 25 years.
Love video🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Only problem I have is two LARGE black walnut trees in my yard. All my favorites. Potatoes, tomatoes, rhubarb won't grow near it. Doesn't stop me from trying lol
Well, walnuts are a lot of food too.