How to Grow Seeds from supermarket vegetables.

Food Supply

After all the panic buying, which for many people was the right thing to do, except the toilet paper meme.

The next thing for the West and other places is that food supply is getting a bit tight.

It is time to do anything you can about securing your food supply and your neighbours food supply.

Your garden is pretty worthless if your neighbours are starving, so set them up too.

Aquire seeds and start planting. What you need are the starchy vegetables, roots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, peas and pumpkins plus cabbages. Tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, herbs and stuff are nice if you haver food calories to go with them, but they are only a supplement to the starchy vegetables.

Good thing is that you can grow many of theses from the things themselves.

Dry out pumpkin seeds, also called squash. The hard grey pumpkins (crown pumpkins) keep for many months, when cool and dry. Butternut squash can also have good storage properties.

If you are in the Northern hemisphere, buy pumpkins now and get the seeds out. Dry them for a few days and then plant them in your garden, harvest in Autumn, plant a third of your yard space in pumpkins. Just mow your lawn, did some holes where the pumpkins are planted. Easy.

You can kill off your lawn by placing anything light proof over the grass for two weeks. Cardboard, a few of layers of news paper, planks, roofing iron, tarps. Weigh that down with bricks, or rocks etc. Then dig up the lawn.

And a third in potatoes and sweet potatoes. You can propagate potatoes by planting potatoes directly into the ground. Buy a few different kinds of potatoes you have no time to work out which grow best in your yard. Dig up all your useless lawn an plant potatoes now. If you buy big potatoes, cut them in third or in half, each bit about golf ball size is good. Let them dry, cut side exposed to the air for three or four days. Then plant. The the plants come up mound the soil up around the stalks leaving the top leaves in the air the potatoes will grow along the stems.

If you have no yard you can grow potatoes in plastic bins, buckets or wooden boxes, or directly in cheap bags of potting mix or compost, just puncher the bottoms of the bags or bins for drainage, and cut potato sized holes in the top of the bag, about four to six holes and plant four to six bits of potato per bag.

Just keep the soil damp, after a few months you will have a bunch of potatoes.