Survival Garden Secrets

When food shortages occur, people who have planned ahead with edible survival garden using survival seeds will truly benefit.  People regularly landscape around their houses with beautiful flowers, for the benefit of the birds and butterflieswhy not be of benefit to you personally as well?  

Blueberries are straightforward to plant around a home and with good care it will produce blueberries for muffins, drying, nibbling, ice cream toppings and lots of other goodies!  Cherry trees can be decorative and productive and if you don't have room for trees there are bush cherries available!  In the right sections, tangerines, lime, lemon and orange trees offer fruit and shade.  Coffee plants can be kept in containers on the corner of decks, and cranberries, currants and a number of other berries can be run along fence lines.  

Ginkgo is a long cultivated nut tree with a peculiar point in a masculine and feminine tree is required to provide nuts.  They grow up to 30 feet high in full sun, and the males may be kept on your street or front porch with the female back further so you can harvest the nuts without competition!  

Do you have got a sitting area you would like to make use of?  There's not a better area to use for your survival garden than growing herbs!  Planters can host chocolate mint, lemon mint as well as the more common spearmint and peppermint - keep them separated as they can be intru|invasive.Rosemary, horseradish, thyme, lavender, and lemon grass are all productive plants too.  You can, with a little research, create a tea garden to slurp sweet tea on summer afternoons, or a potpourri/craft garden if that's an interest for you.  Best of all is a kitchen garden - garlic, basil, savory and a large range of other plants can be grown in most areas.  You get a year's worth of landscaping and food.  Plants such as rosemary can handle quite a lot of trimming once established and fresh herbs are so much better than the processed ones!  

Venturesome gardeners may try less common plants like josta berry, jujubes and apricots.  If you like nuts, almonds are another possibility for those with additional space.  Have a shady area you would like to use?  Get a log implanted with shiitake mushrooms, which can last many years.  This is a great way, if you like mushrooms, to grow your own and use the space that isn't completely in the sun.  

Strawberries are an obvious choice for very little effort.   A flower box with pansies can generate lavender pansy preserves as well as decorating.  Rhubarb is another possibility, with rhubarb pie being a fave of many people.  

This is just as practical for those in cooler climates as in the tidal sectors.  Smaller trees and plants can provide considerable food for a tiny family as well as dressing up your yard with flowers and perfume - after all flowers are required for fruit!  

Some use vines to cover areas and among the vines that may be used is grapes.  Gourds and other vines can also be 'trained' up a trellis.  

A natural offshoot as you begin your survival garden with eatable food is composting - compost bins don't have to be unsightly!  While many use pallets - which can be 'dressed up' with flowers or 'hidden' behind bushes - an older trash can works really well also.  An old metal one that will leak is great - put a few holes in it and dress it up with a coat of paint.  You won't have to pay to have grass and other things hauled off - compost it, turn it into something helpful for your survival garden!  

The College of Nevada designed, installed and maintained a strip in the city of Reno.  One area was engineered to attract insects ( which pollinates the landscaping ), but there was also a salsa garden, salad/herb garden, evergreens, 'Three Sisters garden', tomatoes and ground cherries.  This is a great use of space!  

There are many web sites and books available on these subjects like survival food storage; it's not tricky or costly to provide edible survival garden!  To learn more about other essential survival gear, go to http://essentialsurvivalgearcatalog.com.