Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that if you choose to make a purchase SHTFPreparedness may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. For an avid gardener, there’s nothing more demoralizing than heading outside and finding that your once-beautiful plants are now puny, spotty, and covered with nibble …
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Heavy gardening and heavy preservation go hand in hand. They have to. If not you are going to spend the latter part of your summer giving food away. That is great but even neighbors get tired of your squash and your tomatoes. So instead of focusing just on a bigger garden, you need to also …
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Jack Frost is on an early approach this year and it would seem that we are left to watch in horror as our plants get hit by that first frost. Our precious basil towers need to come inside or they are going to be wasted. When you invest time in your garden it’s very hard …
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Learning to garden in the fall and winter is an important part of SHTF preparation. And building a cold frame is the first step to extending your growing season to 365 days a year. Why Garden in the Winter? Learning to stretch your growing season for your vegetable garden into the fall and winter months …
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Unless you have a great setup and are prepared for your garden to weather the freezing temperatures, you are going to experience a real loss over the next month or so. Your garden is going to wither up and die. Not all at once but some plants are going to die before others. Only the …
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Have you given any consideration to indoor growing? While many preppers are quick to turn to gardens and renewable resources, what happens to that big garden in a large scale collapse? What happens to all those tomatoes and the food you have grown. Well, you can look at it two ways. The first is that …
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Any serious prepper needs to have a garden. If possible, a good sized garden that will help you put away excess for later on. Of course, not everyone has the means or the space for a large garden. But with the right soil and by choosing the right veggies, you can do a lot even …
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What happens to your garden in the winter? Do you cover it and turn it into a hoop house? Do you look to make things last as long as possible. Are you a year round grower? What angle do you take? There are several and this article in particular is going to discuss bedding down …
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What we use to care for and heal our bodies is changing all the time. For a long time we were inclined only to pull something from the medicine to heal ourselves or to treat ourselves in anyway. The interesting change that has recently come is that people are actually pulling things from the ground …
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The prospect of having a powerful garden system that basically works to sustain itself is an incredible idea. Many people have enacted just the process and they are counting on a number of plants to achieve their goals. Of course, whenever you are talking about fruiting bodies, there is a season for them and when …
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