Desert Island Vegetables

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:22.0	We are back today with Chris to talk about kind of desert island vegetables or what you would grow if you were in a zombie apocalypse and you have to self sustain yourself. So you have a couple favorites, I think, off the top of your head.
0:24.3	I do.
0:25.3	I know we talked about, you know, that things that I don't want to do are the things that take
0:28.3	like a lot of space, right?
0:29.6	Like broccoli and cauliflower where it takes a large square foot to grow it and you're
0:33.0	cauliflower where it takes a large square foot to grow it and you get one meal out of it.
0:35.0	Yeah.
0:36.0	Or like this happens.
0:37.0	Yeah, and then you've just got...
0:39.0	And then you've just got... You're...
0:41.0	You have garnish.
0:42.0	Try and avoid garnish.
0:44.0	Yeah, so big things like cabbages,
0:46.0	you get a single harvest, take a lot of space,
0:48.0	maybe a cauliflower, take up a lot of space, one harvest.
0:50.0	They're kind of, they're fun, but maybe not the best for continuous food production.
0:55.0	Yeah, if it was, if I really like had to, had a zombie on the horse and I, I would obviously do potatoes.
1:02.0	Okay, yeah, I mean that is the gift that keeps on giving they make their own seeds they make their own
1:04.8	I have potatoes coming out of every possible corner of my garden that I didn't plan yeah
1:09.5	and they don't need much yeah they don't need anything. Eggplant is really prolific.
1:14.0	Once it gets going, we're going to have a lot of baba-ganish in the fish.
1:17.0	And you have it, yes, but you're true.
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