If you’re new in planting a garden, and you want to grow as big volume of food as possible, in as little space as possible, the plants that will give you the biggest harvests are: Tomatoes, Summer squash, Peppers, Green beans. Potatoes, onions and garlic are also good because they can be planted around tomatoes and other stuff too, but the biggest producers are tomatoes, squash, peppers and green beans! These plants, after they’re established, can go on to give out almost unlimited amount of food, for as long as the weather allows them to continue producing.
I believe I managed to store enough food for the winter solely thanks to tomatoes, peppers, and squash. Not only zuchinni can also make a winter squash in an emergency, but it can be dried and added to preserves, and frozen and made into zuchinni bread! Tomatoes are the easiest food to preserve because they’re so acidic, they can even help you preserve other food, by having it submerged in tomato sauce and closed into jars!
Green beans, other than being a great and plentiful summer crop, can be dried and canned and frozen, they also keep producing for as long as the plants are alive.
Other crops like, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, onion greens, potatoes, lettuce, dry beans, peas, carrots, leeks, celery, they’re awesome to have, but when they give you produce, they’re likely to do it once, or twice, and that is the maximum you can get out of that space where you plant them. They’re a life saver during the time summer crops wont grow! But the big producers will continue giving you harvests over and over again, as long as they stay healthy and undamaged by weather.
Greens like kale, swiss chard, chives, spinach, can also give you multiple harvests, and they’re great to grow in the colder months, but you still get nowhere near the volume of food that you can get from the summer crops. And there’s also big summer producers like cucumbers, watermelons, cantaloupes, eggplants, that can give you loads of produce, but these also take a LOT of space.
Tomatoes, squash, peppers and green beans are, I think, the absolute essential garden crops to grow. Also potatoes if you have the extra space to plant them.
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Prompt 218
“Moom, there’s yellow-eyed creeps fighting ninjas outside the window again!”
Danny sighed, taking a deep breath- in for ten, out for eight- as he set the pot he was cleaning back in the sink. Dan- currently six- came running in from the living room of the apartment, where he was watching TV. Or he should have been if not for the bullshit outside.
He sighed again, picking up baby Ellie- currently closer to two- out of her highchair (even if she could just float out) and let his oldest drag him to the window. Sure enough, another fight was happening, with no vigilante in sight stopping it. Look, he knew most people didn’t live here, but it was still rude.
“Jordan, remember how I told you how violence isn’t always the answer?” Danny asked sweetly, Dan’s expression shifting to a wicked grin as he opened the window. “Feel free to practice tossing some fireballs while I clean up your sister, yeah?”
Ah, the sweet sound of surprised cursing and startled ecto-signatures. Maybe they’d be polite enough to take their spar elsewhere.
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