There ’s an dateless search on for the easygoing mode to garden . The mug - proof method . The no - piece of work glide path . The incredibly productivestrategy .
Here ’s a sample distribution of ideas you may have encounter :
ego - lachrymation EarthboxesTower gardensPlastic nursing bottle hydroponicsGutter gardeningTrash - can potatoesPVC pipework gardeningStraw bale gardeningGardening in bags of soilOlla potful irrigation4 - season greenhouse gardeningStrawberry barrel gardeningDripline water rowing … and pile and lots more
Now I ’m not going to condemn all these methods . Many of them arequite clever and may be perfect for your area , especially in your in amarginal intellectual nourishment - growing country .
My main trouble with most of them is that ina power grid - down situation , or in a post Peak Oil scenario , or even during a sentence of runawayinflation or a transport smasher or some variety , you may get stuck .
The ideal survival garden is dead simple , and a slew of these methodspurport to be easy brusque - cuts to growing your own food . The concern is , however , that the method are too complex or driven by outside inputs to work well in a crisis .
Before I go further , have me say this : if you ’re growing your ownfood , however you ’re doing it , you ’re better off than the many peoplewho are n’t growing anything at all . If it lease an irrigation systemdivided into cautiously timed sectors and automatic sprinklers to keepyou producing victuals , that ’s a lot better than doing nothing .
That caveat apart , I have some worry .
Let ’s pretend you ’re on metropolis weewee and electrical energy . Let ’s furtherpretend that you ’ve set up the coolest dangedtilapia - raise / cabbage - growing / self - filtering aquaponics system thisside ofStar Trek . What do you do if the king run short off … or your approach to wanton water dries up ?
This is n’t a suppositious question . I have a protagonist who raisestilapia and salads in a glasshouse . It ’s cool as heck and totally worthseeing . Yet on two separate occasions , he ’s lost a bunch of his fishbecause of minor flaws that were n’t get until it was too late . At onepoint his aeration valve locked up while his ticker continued to emptywater from the system . Overnight , a tank enfeeble and by the meter he saw it the next break of the day , he had a bunch of dead Pisces .
This is sorry but not life - threateningright now . But if those fish were needed to feed the class because there were no other choice leave behind , he would have been in big bother . Sometimes one little problem can really mess up a complicated system .
Part of the reason our nation is in such trouble is because theAmerican banking organization – and the international banking system – keptbundling , repackaging , leverage and work up vast castles of wealth ontop of a shaky and increasingly incomprehensible system of debt - backedpaper money . In gardening terms , they moved far by from thesimplicities of dirt , sunlight , digging and seeding … and the resultingcrash make an ongoing Depression with no final stage in sight .
My advice to new gardeners and those who trust to feed themselvesthrough future calamity is the same thing I learned when I was ajournalist : KISS . That ’s short for Keep It Simple , Stupid !
You may be confront tough atmospheric condition on your property . Perhaps the soilis too alkaline … or comprised of hard clay … or , heaven forbid , you’rein the city and have a fishy lot thanks to your neighbour ’s trees .
The temptation is to look for an easier fashion … but sometimes , you may’thave relief and security at the same clip .
If a squirrel chew through your irrigation hoses , will you be able to supervene upon them ? If a hurricane knock down your greenhouse , can you still grow ? If the mogul last off , will your well make for ? If not , determine totrap water on your place .
Some of the method above are pretty simple . The difficulty arise in doing them on a large enough scale leaf to feed yourself …
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