Prepping Makes Your Garden Grow!

When we think about making emergency preparations, we typically consider only the relatively short-term occurrences. For example, weather disasters such as tornadoes, flooding, and blizzards are often devastating, but recovery is generally made within weeks or a few months at most.

Thinking about prepping for any situation that requires us to change how we live is always a bright idea. Long-term solutions for what may seem like a short-term problem also provide necessities for your family, no matter the future.

Let’s Start a Garden

The rising popularity of vegetable gardening is seen everywhere. From the White House garden, first instituted in 1800 by the second president of the United States, John Adams, and first lady Abigail Adams, to container growing on apartment patios, it is a trend that is good for our health and can provide sustenance for years.

It may seem far-fetched, but if, for some reason, our food chain collapses, being capable of growing your food would not only make you seem like a genius but keep your belly full as well. A garden can save your life.

If recent food prices are any indication, even if grocery stores continue to stock fruits and vegetables, the prices we pay may exceed our budget. That seems to be happening right now, as a matter of fact.

In addition, natural disasters, coupled with conflicts worldwide, could create a situation in which many people see having a garden or growing some of their food as a necessity rather than a relaxing hobby.

Not All Seeds are the Same

Vegetable seeds can be either hybrid or heirloom. While hybrid seeds are not self-pollinating and must be purchased annually to produce, heirloom seeds can be collected and stored for years to come.

A bonus to growing heirloom fruit and vegetables is the taste. Fond memories of tasting the tomatoes from your grandmother’s garden? Victory garden or crisp apples from the family orchard can be revived with seeds from yesterday. An abundance of varieties is also found with heirloom seeds.

Before Spring gets here, this is the perfect time to consider starting a garden of heirloom vegetables and fruits. Hopefully, we will never need to supply our food, but if the worst happens, you will be prepared.

Even in good times, a garden, while a lot of work, can contribute to your dinner table and food storage efforts, all the while having some fun too.

Here are a few of the resources I’ve checked out:

Now, for me, if I could figure out how to grow anything in this orange Mississippi “dirt,” (a.k.a. clay) we’d be good to go. 😉