Feed Yourself For A YEAR! Our Top Vegetable Crops To Grow
Vložit
- čas přidán 9. 03. 2023
- In this video, we're sharing how we grow and use an impressive variety of vegetables - from juicy cherry tomatoes to mouth-watering peppers - all while making the most of our limited space. We'll even tabulate the number of plants needed to sustain our two-person household with delicious food year-round. We grow a year round supply of tomatoes, peppers, beans, celery, pumpkin, squash, cucumbers, basil, cauliflower, potatoes and more. So, if you're ready to be amazed at the abundance that can come from a little bit of dirt and a lot of love, buckle up and join us!
Recipes:
Bread & Butter Pickles: • How To Make My Grandma...
Stewed Tomatoes: • Canning WHOLE Tomatoes...
Coyote Crack: • Pepper Harvest - Cowbo...
Fermented Hot Sauce: • Homemade Hot Sauce How...
Dill Pickles: • Pickle PERFECTION! Cru...
Salsa: • Canning Salsa Fresh Fr...
Chili Sauce: • We Don't Know Why They...
Squash Flour: • Our Zucchinis Grew TOO...
#wilderstead
#gardeninghomesteadingskills #canadianhomesteaders #growyourownfood
*affiliate links included
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Great Videos!
Glad you like them!
My Daddy would plant 100Lbs of potatoes every year besides everything else. I didn't appreciate it until I was grown how hard he worked. Miss him and love him so much
Amazing! Greetings from Leamington, ON.
Take care
Thank you! 😊
Looking forward to more videos.
More to come!
This feeling that you feel connected to your land, that general feeling goes for most jobs but its just much easier to feel that way growing your own food. Also the connection to nature makes it easier at least I think so.
Great to see other Canadian Homesteaders doing the same things.
Thanks Dave!
That's awesome! Nothing like growing our own food! Learning as I go and now need to learn how to grow more in small spaces! Thanks for showing me it's possible!
You can do it!
as a 2-person household in a zone 3 climate I'm SO EXCITED i found your channel!!!
Welcome to the Wilderstead!
👏👏 Blessings ❤️
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Great job from Ontario Canada ❤
Thank you! 😃
Don't ever say it might not be the best garden. IT'S YOUR GARDEN OF EDEN.!!!!!!!!
This is wonderful! The guides online are misleading and more for a very small supplement to what we will eat in a year. So glad I found your channel!
Welcome aboard! Yes, we like to look at the reality of things here.
As a Northerner now living in Southeastern America, I discovered a favorite crop that stored longterm like a champ. Seminole Pumpkins! Try them if you have not. They made a fantastic pumpkin butter. They will store well into the next spring without any special storage. Southern Seed Exchange sells the seeds which you will be able to seed save for the next season. If you have a greenhouse, I’d highly suggest giving them a shot! Their butternut squash was also a longterm storage solution. I miss the North. Encouraging to see everything you can produce in Zone 3!!
Pumpkins are great. We grow a bunch and they definitely last a long time. Probably still one or two in our panty waiting to be turned into something tasty!
Really would be nice to see all the preservation videos linked in while talking about the plant.
There are a bunch linked in the description. And here's a link to the playlist with all of the recipes: czcams.com/play/PLu7H-e0fPjRYiKYveGZAGzhVwEcsRsBcS.html
You guys are amazing! We rely hugely on our gardens. I need to get better at utilizing my space maybe lol. We grow a lot of our own food, but definitely not as much as you. What a great video. We LOVE growing celery too, our first year we couldn't believe the taste difference from store bought, amazing. Another thing we grow a ton of is herbs, we hardly ever buy herbs as we dehydrate sooo much, I'm sure you do too. You definitely inspired me to utilize my crops more and in more ways. 😊
Keep rockin it! You are well on your way!
Great summary, thank you. I totally get your numbers - our off-grid house (Yukon grower) is starting to look like a nursery with onions, celery, peppers, leek.
And you are a hundred percent right about the celery! I didn´t like it until I planted our own some years ago and now I have 6 types going. Love it and toss it in everything. :)
Sounds great!
Great calculation over there! I would say we are similar.
Good to hear!
wow, what a great informative video, happy gardening
Thank you kindly!
Love the number of plants list and the eat now, eat later concept. One of my goals this year is to succession plant so I can extend my eat now harvest.
Succession planting will definitely up your food production. It's a good system to learn and implement with crops it works with. Beans, radish, beets etc are easy ones to start with.
Cool and you still gathered berries and fruit from a far. And here we grow again lol.
Man, the amount of wild foods we preserve every year makes up a huge part of our food supply for sure!
We have the same issues. Middle of the forest and the Canadian Shield is a few feet below the crappy top layer of soil. Slowly building up compost and growing our garden. Thanks for the great ideas and tips for growing. 🌱
Definitely some similar challenges.
So excited to see you were recruited for Team Aquarius! Watching you grow should be very informative.
Us too! Thanks!
great run down of your planting list! How's the maple flowing? I'm boiling again tomorrow!
The buckets are filling! We haven’t boiled yet though. Very soon!
Love these vids oh man ...but I would love to see the marajuana plants area
I see you have come a long way. Great progress . I like the arial views . Take care friends
Thanks 👍
Growing celery.... absolutely agree with you guys! All the flavour and its ability to be frozen makes it an important choice. Wish our farm was closer to yours as we could initiate some trading! Wow! You sure love your hot peppers!
Totally agree!
looking forward to watching your garden growing this year and please do show us how to make that plum sauce!! Team Misfitz here! Lets Grow!
Will definitely add that recipe to our recipe video playlist this year!
@@Wilderstead Thank you!
Good info...I need to grow more . Is it because your growing season is short that you plant so much also
It's partly that, but even if we lived in a slightly warmer climate, our numbers likely wouldn't change. This amount of plants grows us food for one year. Ideally, we're shooting for two years minimum food supply from our own produce.
Great great video guys! We love the numbers and that is something that we often find is difficult to explain to people and have them "get it". I use 120 lbs of tomatoes just for ketchup, never mind all the other things that you mentioned. Love how you made this very matter of fact and straight forward loved it. Congrats on growing so much of your own food and we hope you have another great garden season. ~Steph and Chris
And same to you folks!
Very interesting video, I think you are right about many people underestimate what they need. Are you vegetarians? are you hunting, are you buying meat and fish or can you trade with some neighbor that do hunting?
We raise chickens for meat and eggs and rabbits for meat. We catch fish and can, smoke or freeze them. A friend raises a pig for us each year which we butcher and preserve in various ways. Beef and other red meats we still buy. We haven’t found hunting to be a viable or financially reasonable way of providing year round meat for us and the chances of harvesting an animal in the wild are much lower than our success with raising them for our own needs. We do receive gifted meat from other folks who hunt from time to time though. Here's a link to a video that we go into great detail about what we buy and what we grow, raise or harvest from the wild: czcams.com/video/iBHIKZJ98gw/video.html
@@Wilderstead I know you go fishing, I had just forgot about that. Your chicken I thought was at least mainly only for egg production.
Greetings from the UP of Michigan. Great video. What, no garlic?
Sometimes, but not always.
Me too! Starting some seeds today.
For a family of 4, would you recommend doubling the numbers you gave?
Yes, that would be a good idea.
Thank you for giving us numbers,but they took the wind out of my sails. I am preparing a corner in my yard for my first garden, but I can only get a tiny fraction of those plants in that corner. 😭
As tiny as it might seem, it’s the beginning of something that will become much bigger. The road to self reliance is long and bumpy. Keep track of what you manage to produce and grow from there. 😃
@@Wilderstead thanks. I'll see what we can get in that corner. I took a screenshot of your list. :)
For people with very small gardens who want to maximize their calories per foot: potatoes, field corn (you turn this into flour), beans, sweet potatoes, other root vegetables like onion, beets, carrots, etc and wheat.
For people with very small gardens who want to maximize how much money they save at the grocery store: Grow the most expensive foods you regularly buy - stuff like salad greens, herbs, ginger, mushrooms, garlic, saffron crocus, asparagus, etc. If you grow your most expensive foods it saves a lot of money in groceries long term.
If you haven't already discovered celery stuffing, it's amazing it's a fermented salary with sage from the book "fermented vegetables" by shockey It is truly delicious
Haven’t tried it but certainly will!
Its kind of thin, i didnt realize that
?