Category Archives: The Survival Garden

Three Survival Garden Vegetables, This Week’s Garden Focus

The author highlights three essential vegetables for a lasting winter garden: garlic, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. The garlic has been dried for storage, and potato harvesting has yielded 50 pounds of Norland potatoes, with more growing. Additionally, the author is planting sweet potatoes and harvesting other produce, emphasizing the sustainability of their homegrown food.

My Garden Supermarket

The author shares a bountiful harvest from their garden, opting to use fresh produce instead of canning or freezing. They enjoy a variety of homegrown vegetables and plan to use or preserve them efficiently. The post also includes information about the author’s books on gardening. They highlight the benefits of fresh, homegrown vegetables and provide resources for starting a vegetable garden.

Planting the Main Garden

In the Ozarks, the arrival of blackberry winter marks the time to plant garden mainstays like tomatoes and peppers. Preparing transplants involves gradually exposing them to sunlight and ensuring ample water. After the last frost, the author plants various vegetables and herbs in prepared garden beds, managing the process despite uncooperative weather. If interested in vegetable gardening, the author offers helpful books on Amazon.

Does Gardening Really Help Your Emotional Health?

A few days ago, someone asked me why I thought everyone was so angry and unhinged all the time and I said that I thought it was because they weren’t spending enough time getting their hands dirty. There’s science behind the idea of the emotional benefits of gardening. Scientists have long wondered whether humans boastContinue reading “Does Gardening Really Help Your Emotional Health?”

Rambling in the Garden

The garden has been planted with potatoes, onions, lettuce, and brassicas, using fabric bags and direct ground planting. Challenges with chickens digging and mulching are managed with a fence and timed roaming. The author connects gardening with spiritual thoughts, tying the season’s renewal to religious holidays. Several gardening books are also promoted.

February’s Gardening Schedule

Can you believe that February is over half over? Many people in the Northern Hemisphere are looking out at the winter weather hoping for an early spring. Others, like me, have already started the 2024 gardening season. What We’ve Done So Far Here at our place, the onions and the herbs that I planted areContinue reading “February’s Gardening Schedule”

We Were All Preppers

The post discusses the commercialization of the prepping movement and how people used to be more self-sufficient. The author describes their current efforts in gardening, foraging, hunting, raising animals, and learning various skills. Additionally, they have written books on vegetable gardening and other relevant topics to help others learn these skills.

Perennial Vegetables that Come Back Every Year

Every year, millions and probably billions of people around the world go out and build a vegetable garden. They dig. They prepare the soil. They plant seeds and work diligently throughout the summer to get a vegetable crop. In recent years, there has been a movement called permaculture where people take an ideology started byContinue reading “Perennial Vegetables that Come Back Every Year”

Get a Victory by Growing a Garden

Back during World War II, both the United States and Great Britain began what they called Victory Gardens. Great Britain had started the idea when the Axis powers began their quest to take over Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s. As the Nazis rolled over their neighboring countries and swallowed up agricultural landContinue reading “Get a Victory by Growing a Garden”