My Survival Garden by Dan Sullivan Review Youtube

If yous plan to commencement growing your own nutrient in a backyard garden and at your bug out location, you will be style ahead of many people when the economy collapses and SHTF.

Nosotros all know growing our own nutrient is a lot of work, but it will be crucial to survival post-disaster. But how tin can you grow and maintain a garden post-SHTF and proceed information technology protected from those who are hungry and seeking any food they can detect?

In a traditional garden you have to ready the soil each yr, plant your seeds, h2o everything, weed at least a couple times weekly, and keep all the pests from eating the plants before they are ready.

Post-SHTF, the scarcity of resources will claiming many gardeners who rely on store bought help in the course of perfectly balanced planting soil, fertilizers, store bought seeds, and pest control formulas.

Plants Demand Nutrients

Regardless of what you lot cull to grow and whether it's in containers, your backyard, a greenhouse, or a xx-acre piece of paradise, you lot demand to take adept nutrients.

For plants to grow, they must have the right combination of essential nutrients. Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Carbon are nutrients that are produced naturally through photosynthesis.

In that location are twelve additional minerals plants need that can typically be managed by the farmer or gardener. Each mineral regardless of quantity is crucial. Plants lacking any i nutrient are negatively impacted in some way.

So one fundamental to strong good for you plants is to create a growing environs or supplement the growing environment to ensure the proper combination of nutrients is available to your plants.

It's highly doubtful that you volition be able to just run to the nearest Lowe's or Tractor Supply to pick upwardly your bags of perfectly mixed soil post-SHTF. And then to have a survival garden in the NWAWKI (New World As We Know It), you need to make certain that you can yet create that great nutrient filled environment for your garden.

Gardening and growing crops has e'er been a very unpredictable undertaking. In that location are so many things that can bear on your nutrient production.

Store-bought fertilizers and pesticides won't exist bachelor to strengthen and protect your plants post-SHTF. Pests can invade, rain and drought tin wreak havoc on your growing season, soil in your area could be contaminated, and post-SHTF, your garden could exist ransacked.

Natural Nutrient Management Methods

Composting

In a postal service-disaster scenario, growing your own food won't but exist a hobby or something you practice to relax in your spare time. Being able to RELIABLY grow enough food to feed your family or small group could be the difference between life and death. One way to ensure healthier plants and increase the reliability of your food production is through composting.

Composting adds organic material to your garden and enhances the soil's ability hold and drain moisture and to battle disease and pest invaders. It besides adds important nutrients. All of this means plants abound healthier and stronger which in plow means when bugs invade or something with the conditions does go amiss, such every bit a dry menstruation or cold snap, your plants will be meliorate able to bounce back and survive.

Traditional composting involves calculation "brown materials" (carbon) and nitrogen (green materials) to a bin that is approximately two square pes in size. Materials rich in carbon, such as paper towels, newspaper (not shiny ads), cardboard too as dried corn stalks, hay, old leaves, and straw will make upward the majority of your compost. Some people besides choose to chop upward and till under their dead garden plants at the end of each season or add the chopped up plants to their compost bin.

Nitrogen filled materials will exist things such equally fresh lawn clippings and manure droppings. Kitchen waste product is also nitrogen filled and includes java grounds with the newspaper filters which as well have calcium and magnesium, eggshells for calcium, assistant peels for potassium, and any leftover vegetable and fruit scraps.

Compost Management Tips:

If you're compost pile smells, you lot've added too much green materials or also much water.
If it's non getting hot, you've added likewise much brown materials.
Water the bin only if it's really hot or has been very dry.
You can as well add animal manure to your compost pile.
To speed up the composting process, you can turn or flip the pile with a pitchfork or shovel.

Vermicomposting

Vermicomposting or worm composting ways using worms to convert organic waste into wonderful black, nutrient filled earth that will help yous to abound salubrious plants. This procedure tin can as well be chosen worm humus or manure, worm castings or vermicast.

The average ii-person household will take approximately 3-4 lbs of kitchen waste each week. A two-foot foursquare and approximately eight-inch deep box that is aerated is a suitable size for a worm bin. Some people go along their worm beds under the kitchen sink, others keep them outside or motion them around the garden.

In one case you have built your worm bin, you'll demand some bedding. Y'all can utilise manure, leaves, strips of newspaper, or shredded cardboard without wax or plastic on information technology. Now add together your worms. You so but empty your kitchen waste matter into the bin and let the worms do what they do.

Tips for Vermicomposting

There are several unlike types of worm bins you tin construct depending on your needs. Research before choosing one.
Woods is typically the best for constructing bins.
Red earthworms or scarlet wigglers are ameliorate for worm composting, they multiply apace and are known to convert large amounts of organic material daily.
Go along worm beds out of direct dominicus, in a shaded area every bit it shouldn't be immune to dry and harden.
Newly added worms tin catechumen half their body weight daily. Add together new nutrient once old food has been processed. In one case worms are settled in, healthy worms can convert their entire body weight in kitchen waste daily.
To prevent bothersome insects and small rodents, used a closed worm bed or avoid including meat scraps in your kitchen waste matter.

Use the rich good for you soil created by composting or vermicomposting when you need it to build up your backyard soil or BOL garden soil and ensure a healthy mix of essential nutrients.

Free Range Poultry

When information technology comes to gardening, many people use costless range poultry such as chickens and guinea fowl to aid in soil management. Poultry manure is dandy for developing rich earth. Chickens and nigh poultry will naturally return to their coop at dark so this makes information technology like shooting fish in a barrel to let them range costless during the daytime hours.

Chickens will besides scratch upward the ground and eat bugs and insects to keep them from overrunning your garden. Yous can turn them loose in the fall and they will clean up leftover found materials and scratch upwardly the ground. Guinea fowl are actually cracking for tick control and although they don't bark, they are quick to alert you of anything or anyone strange on the holding.

Hydroponics or Aquaponics

If you believe that soil in your area could be compromised or otherwise unusable long-term for gardening, you lot may want to research and consider how to grow plants in h2o, gravel, or sand equally through hydroponic production. Survivalists will too desire to learn near a course of hydroponics that grows nutrient in water using fish waste as the nutrients needed for establish growth as described in this video:

How to build a home fabricated DIY Aquaponics garden.

Keep in mind that both hydroponic and aquaponics methods of gardening will require some form of energy to run the pumps. They may besides be more difficult to camouflage from trespassers. If you lot decide to go this route in a postal service-SHTF, you will demand to get creative nigh how to hide information technology. Perhaps build the arrangement in a pit greenhouse or walpini to keep it from view and research placidity pumps.

What Should You Plant?

Found Quality Not-GMO Seeds

There is some controversy nearly GMO versus Non-GMO Seeds. GMO means genetically modified organism. GMO seeds have been altered genetically, in a style that cannot occur naturally. Consumers who buy produce in grocery stores similar prissy looking fruits and vegetables. The GMO procedure produces that look consistently. It can also prevent some of the common issues that make product unpredictable.

Go on in mind that many experienced gardeners feel that GMO seeds tend to produce less and less produce each yr. This isn't crucial when you tin can buy new seeds at the store or online if you lot need them each year.

Simply in a SHTF scenario, using GMO seeds mean that you could observe that afterwards a couple years the seeds you relieve from each plant produce less and less each year. That tin can be fatal and at that place'due south no mode to know until it starts to happen.

My recommendation is that you make completely sure that the seeds you are saving to use for a post-SHTF scenario are completely non-GMO which means they have non been contradistinct unnaturally.

We also recommend that you lot only plant organic seeds for survival gardening, ones which come from plants that take Not been chemically treated with fertilizers or pesticides.

How to Discover Seeds

Organically grown, non-GMO seeds volition requite y'all the best run a risk to abound quality nutrient for your family unit that volition produce fruits and vegetables with seeds that can then be used for future planting.

You tin generally find seeds locally now through pocket-size businesses and organizations such as local farms, produce stands, family owned garden centers, or gardening co-ops. Do non presume that seeds are organically grown specially if you buy them online.

Question use of practices for fertilizers and pest control to exist sure. If you lot must order online, make certain you are ordering organically grown, non-GMO seeds or plants.

When buying seeds, buy from companies that take the Condom Seed Pledge. This is by and large an indication that seeds you are purchasing are non-GMO. Seeds can exist heirloom, heritage, or hybrid.

A hybrid seed or constitute does not automatically hateful it is GMO. There are natural ways to cross pollinate plants to create better results. A seed labeled heritage or heirloom doesn't guarantee that information technology is non-GMO.

Natural Pest Control

Attract Benign Insects

Use companion planting to actually attract benign insects to your garden that will reduce the number of subversive insects and other pests in your garden. For case, vegetables such as carrots, parsley, and celery grow flowers that concenter predatory wasps that will actually eat the caterpillars that like to feast on your leafy plants.

Other Natural Methods

There are many other natural methods for pest control. For example, use a mixture of 1 quart of water and two tablespoons baking soda in a spray canteen to care for any fungal diseases that may show upward on your plants. Spray plants every couple of days until the fungus is eliminated.

To deter deer, you tin can mix a whole egg into about ¼ loving cup of water and stir thoroughly. Spray this mixture over your plants. Mixture volition demand to be reapplied after heavy rains. My grandmother also swore that stuffing a pouch of cheesecloth with a chip of human hair from her hairbrush would also keep deer away.

Off-Filigree Methods of Irrigation

One very important matter to consider when growing your own nutrient in a post-SHTF scenario is how to make sure that you take an ample supply of water bachelor for your plants.

Plants demand water to grow and in many gardens, watering is a daily undertaking. Make certain you lot check local zoning and state laws before using off-filigree methods to avoid a potential legal battle afterward.

Rainwater Collection

Rainwater collection is one fashion to collect additional water to employ for watering your garden. The all-time place to start collecting rainwater is from the peak of your house roof and the rooves of whatever outbuildings, such as sheds or garages.

If you aren't using the water for drinking, you don't fifty-fifty need to worry much about filtering it. Simply collect the water into a large tub or other container as it comes off the roof then employ that water on your garden every 24-hour interval.

Greywater Diversion

Greywater is another way to collect water that you can use on your garden. Greywater is any water that drains from your home, except your toilet water which is considered "blackwater". So greywater includes kitchen and bathroom sink drains, the shower or bathtub drain, fifty-fifty the washing machine drain.

Simply divert those drains coming out of your home so they become into your collection signal and then use that water on your garden. Switch to all natural cleaners equally much as possible and exist cautious of any chemicals that could get into your greywater and harm your plants.

Good soil, composting, pest control, planting, weeding, irrigation, and finally harvesting sounds similar a lot of piece of work right? To elevation it off, post-SHTF everything else will require and then much energy and fourth dimension. Y'all will be using a lot of time and energy on the other survival skills you learned so you can survive in these chaotic times.

Okay and so you've figured out how to get the nutrients your plants need, which seeds to buy, how to protect them from pests and disease, and keep them watered post disaster. But what if I told you that having a garden volition actually put y'all and your family unit in danger past making you a target post-SHTF?

It's true. Having an obvious backyard garden could make you and your family a target in a post-SHTF situation. There volition be mobs of desperate and hungry people moving through most areas.

People trying to get out of town will run out of gas on the major interstates and volition chop-chop abandon their cars. This will put many of them on pes and in search of nutrient and h2o.

Everyone, even someone who has never fix human foot in an actual food garden, knows that those rows or that large rectangular or square expanse of clay means nutrient is or will be growing there.

If you are in an urban expanse or within x miles of a major interstate or highway, your backyard garden makes you a target for these masses of hungry people.

They will have no selection but to come up by your home or farm. If you are lucky, they will come up in the cover of night, accept equally much as they tin carry from your garden, and leave without harming your family.

Just it's entirely possible that y'all will wake up one morning to find your unabridged garden ransacked from a group of people that moved through in the night.

Even if y'all live farther out from main highways, an obvious nutrient garden puts your family at run a risk from hungry, desperate people who may pass exist passing through. Or worse, you could be confronted by a group of people with guns who want to force you to get out so they can take over your food laden location.

So short of fortifying your home or bug out location with alarms and hidden traps, or being on guard 24/7, ready to shoot anyone who approaches your garden, what tin you practise? How tin y'all make it safer for you and your family to abound your ain food as part of your long-term survival plan?

Say Cheerio to Traditional Garden Rows

The absolute must for postal service-SHTF gardening is to say goodbye to traditional garden rows. Split the garden into smaller sections and found in unlike places around your land.

Plant some things up near the house, other things out behind the befouled, or maybe subconscious in the forest. Try to keep obvious food plants in an area that isn't visible from the route. Separate plants all over instead of planting in rows!

Camouflage Methods

In that location are as well several ways to cover-up your garden food supply and so it is non visible to passersby on the road.

Cover-up doesn't necessarily proceed your garden hidden from persistent seekers who actually come onto your holding searching, but it may increase the likelihood that drastic people on the road volition laissez passer on by and scavenge somewhere else.

Netting

Depending on your garden location, you could apply some type of cover-up netting to hide your plants or garden expanse from the view of those passing by.

Typically used by hunters, camouflage netting could exist used to aid hide your nutrient plants or even a greenhouse from view. You can also use natural landscaping to hide your edible plants from view and deter any trespassers.

Copse, hedges, shrubs, flowers, vines, or ivy tin can serve equally a visual and/or a physical barrier to your garden area.

Planting something like goldenrod, effectually your garden or most the route, can be enough to make people who are allergic to pollen go on moving instead of stopping. The use of poisonous plants or thorny hedges tin make it more than hard for looters to have food.

Plants such as poison ivy or nettles may exist plenty to keep some visitors from cutting through to your garden. For an additional physical deterrent, choose Lisbon lemon copse (big green thorns), or the cute but virtually impenetrable thorny hedges similar the Choisya trifoliate, Gooseberry or Japanese barberry.

Pit Greenhouse or Walipini

Walipinis are a great thought for post-SHTF gardening because temperatures underground would make it feasible to grow nutrient all year. For nearly areas of the world, the temperature four feet downwards into the ground hovers around 50 to 60 degrees even in winter temperatures.

A traditional walipini is rectangular in shape and about vi-viii feet deep secret with the longest wall south facing to maximize sunlight. It's basically an 8x12 foot rectangular hole in the ground with a roof made of slats or PVC pipe covered in plastic sheeting.

A ninety-caste angle directly facing wintertime solstice is ideal for the roof. The roof should not be blocked or shaded past trees or buildings.

Use Multiple Locations

Don't put all your eggs in i basket—or in this case all your plants in i location. Make sure you plant some food at your home and separate nutrient at your issues out location. Enquire or help relatives to start growing food at their locations also.

Keep supplies separate between both locations. If one location is ransacked or taken over, you and your family volition accept an alternating food supply at the alternate locations.

Edible Landscaping

Another method for hiding nutrient in obviously sight in your backyard is to establish edible perennials every bit landscaping around your domicile and thou. Choose plants about people won't recognize equally food. Some examples of edible perennials include:

Prickly pear which has edible pads, flowers, and fruit.
Carmine Emperor runner bean plant attracts hummingbirds and bees, looks great and has edible pods and beans. Do not eat raw beans.
Siberian Pea shrubs as mentioned above. This is a nitrogen fixing institute, it can foreclose soil erosion, they attract helpful insects, and is edible for people and for livestock.
Mean solar day Lilies which have edible tubers and flowers
Spinach dock or garden sorrel
Dinosaur Kale is a very pretty angiosperm, with edible leaves
Fiddle heads, the unopened fronds can exist food.
Basis basics
Hosta, some varieties have ameliorate flavor than others
Ramps or wild leeks
Barrel Cactus which has buds, fruit, and flowers that are edible
Chicory
Sweet Potatoes have beautiful vines and majestic flowers
Chokeberries

There are many more than edible and medicinal perennials to choose from so regardless of what office of the world yous are in, yous should be able to grow at least some foods that won't be easily targeted as food.

Sacrifice Common Edibles

Another way to protect your garden from trespassers and hungry passersby is to sacrifice some plants to protect the majority of your garden. For example, plant some mutual edible weeds such as dandelions and poke salad out virtually the road.

Brand information technology look like these are just plants growing wild at the edge of the road. If hungry passersby come across plenty edible food close past, they may accept that to eat and not come further onto your holding looking for other food.

Permaculture Gardening

Originally coined by Bill Mollinson, and further developed and enhanced by those who came later on him, permaculture design principles can exist practical to structural design, landscaping, and many other areas. The solution is typically inherent in the trouble. It encourages changing the smallest element to product the best effect.

In gardening, it limits your food production only by the imagination and data in your garden design. Permaculture principles piece of work with nature instead of against it to make less work for yourself and to better utilise natural resources to grow even healthier plants. This type of concept, combined with a little inventiveness to go along things hidden or less obvious, is perfect for mail service-SHTF gardening methods.

Permaculture planting is typically done in zones around your home taking into business relationship where natural sunlight, water, shade, and traffic patterns naturally occur. Because you utilize naturally occurring resources, your labor to h2o, weed, and control pests and disease is minimized.

The final method for hiding your survival garden is one that combines many of the above methods into a secret garden of food that mimics nature and helps food grow plentiful, but also allows y'all to "hide" your garden, basically in patently sight!

The manner to do this is to inquiry and learn how to institute your own food forest.

What is a Food Forest?

A food forest is planted using permaculture design principles and concentric circles, called guilds. Information technology is combined with companion planting to mimic nature as much as possible, plants basically abound wild in communities that centre around a fruit or nut tree.

The concentric circles of a food woods order include:

Canopy or tall tree layer, usually a fruit or nut tree
Understory or low tree layer, like a mulberry tree
Vine layer growing up those trees.
Shrub layer, such as hazelnuts
Herb layer such equally comfrey, basil, etc.
Rhizosphere or root layer such equally Jerusalem artichokes
Footing cover layer includes things such as clover or strawberries

Companion Planting

Use companion planting techniques to found your annuals such as cucumbers, peppers, and tomatoes in amongst the nutrient forest layers. They will be subconscious among the "forest" and will abound much improve besides. Other examples of helpful companion planting for a food forest include planting:

tomatoes next to cat nip to eliminate your green tomato horn worm issue.
garlic and onions at the base of your trees to deter mice from chewing the bawl and killing your copse.
comfrey, mustard vine grape, and Siberian pea shrub in the same pigsty as an apple tree so it all works together. The Siberian pea shrub is a nitrogen logroller and the comfrey has a thirty-foot root system that pulls water and nutrients from farther away so the tree can flourish.
Peppers and tomatoes nether the black walnut tree where non much else volition grow well.
Mountain mint to keep deer from browsing your secret garden.
Short-toothed mountain mint to act as a natural pest repellant. Information technology also attracts beneficial insects such as bees, butterflies, moths, ants, and eve predatory wasps that will eat insect pests.

For more companion planting ideas, see this chart.

It's of import to know your land well, to understand permaculture blueprint elements, and to learn how to plan your food forest first.

A nutrient forest if done correctly can essentially go your very own secret survival garden as described below:

The Permaculture Nutrient Forest - Plant Once- Harvest for a Lifetime. How It Works.

The initial work of developing a food wood is all in the first yr or and so. If y'all want annual vegetables and fruit you lot found them hidden inside the "forest" once each season. Then you just let nature take over.

The diversity of a well-designed nutrient forest ensures that you and your family have food available all the time. Nearly people with a nutrient woods boast more nutrient production than one family unit tin eat. Food forest planting tin fifty-fifty provide plenty of water every bit demonstrated in the video beneath:

Permaculture Principles in Awarding ‒ Geoff Lawton

You lot will have plenty of water available naturally stored for bacteria times.

The lack of traditional rows and spacing and the concentric circles also makes your nutrient garden look like but an overgrown forest or field. In a post-SHTF scenario, information technology doesn't mean no ane will ever find it, but it does keep you from existence an obvious target of those desperate and hungry crowds passing past.

In fact, your food forest will eventually brand your home wait like it was abased long agone. All simply the near persistent of travelers will pass right on by your backyard without recognizing it'south a garden at all as shown in the video beneath:

5 Year Old Food Forest in Florida: David The Skilful's Wood Garden Bout 2015

If done correctly, you lot can program and plant a nutrient forest as a survival garden that volition be subconscious to preclude you from becoming a target. Best of all, it will provide you with more than than enough food to feed your family, and be virtually maintenance and worry free most of the year.

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