4 Best Crops to Grow For Calories
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🗓️ 8 March 2020
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Summary
If you're trying to grow calorically dense food, here are my top 4 suggestions. It's no surprise potatoes make the top of the list, but you may be surprised by the rest!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? |
| 0:03.0 | What's up everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we are |
| 0:16.6 | discussing some high calorie vegetables that you can grow in your garden if that's |
| 0:20.9 | something that you want to do. You really want to grow |
| 0:23.2 | calorically dense foods. Now for those of you who remember this is something I did to the |
| 0:28.4 | extreme last June when I did my Apocalypse Grow survival challenge. |
| 0:32.9 | And so you may be familiar with some of the things |
| 0:35.2 | that we will cover. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm gonna go in order of the most |
| 0:39.4 | calorically dense crops downwards, |
| 0:42.3 | and we're gonna cover four in today's episode. |
| 0:46.0 | Let's kick it off with potatoes. They are the most popular one that you could grow and |
| 0:51.9 | certainly the most colorically |
| 0:54.1 | dense out of most common plants it's 163-ish calories per potato and they are so |
| 1:01.3 | easy to grow. |
| 1:03.2 | One potato plant coming from one seed potato |
| 1:06.1 | will produce four to eight potatoes of various sizes |
| 1:10.6 | and of course you can save some of those and replant those as well and so you can |
| 1:14.5 | really get a nice multiplier on your effort when it comes to potatoes. Now some |
| 1:19.2 | things about potatoes that I learned is that number one healing doesn't seem to be as important as many |
| 1:23.7 | would think I got a great yield out of an in-ground potato bed that I just |
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