E - Book Planting Guide AND Our Families Journey To Self Sufficiency
I get asked this question a lot ‘what should I grow?’, which is a really easy two fold answer.
Grow what you eat
When it is in season - there is no point struggling to grow something out of season or something that doesn't easily grow in your climate. One of those things for me is rosella hibiscus. I love and use flowers as a tea daily and I’ve tried to grow them for a few summers in a row, but it just isn’t hot enough where I live.
What I find hard, even after years in the veggie patch is growing successively. I find that I get distracted with jobs like weeding, harvesting and preserving and push sowing seeds to the back burner. I’ve become much better with successive planting now we are eating veggies exclusively from our garden, and getting into a habit is key to being successful here. Experience helps too. What and how much our family eats will differ greatly to yours. Thinking about what you would like to plant, keeping in mind how long it takes until harvest and how often you usually eat it helps with setting out a plan. For me space isn’t too much of an issue so I usually over sow. This helps with pest pressure, crop failures, feeding guests and using my excess to trade or sell.
This guide includes a planting chart and schedule to help you figure out what to plant when and how many of each you should plant to feed a family of 5. I am located in a cool temperate (cool zone 10 heat zone 4) region in Australia (southern hemisphere) where this guide is based.
I get asked this question a lot ‘what should I grow?’, which is a really easy two fold answer.
Grow what you eat
When it is in season - there is no point struggling to grow something out of season or something that doesn't easily grow in your climate. One of those things for me is rosella hibiscus. I love and use flowers as a tea daily and I’ve tried to grow them for a few summers in a row, but it just isn’t hot enough where I live.
What I find hard, even after years in the veggie patch is growing successively. I find that I get distracted with jobs like weeding, harvesting and preserving and push sowing seeds to the back burner. I’ve become much better with successive planting now we are eating veggies exclusively from our garden, and getting into a habit is key to being successful here. Experience helps too. What and how much our family eats will differ greatly to yours. Thinking about what you would like to plant, keeping in mind how long it takes until harvest and how often you usually eat it helps with setting out a plan. For me space isn’t too much of an issue so I usually over sow. This helps with pest pressure, crop failures, feeding guests and using my excess to trade or sell.
This guide includes a planting chart and schedule to help you figure out what to plant when and how many of each you should plant to feed a family of 5. I am located in a cool temperate (cool zone 10 heat zone 4) region in Australia (southern hemisphere) where this guide is based.