Planning A Survival Garden -
3 Simple Steps

Growing your own garden can be one of the most rewarding and healthy activities you can do, it's also a very smart and practical step towards being more self sufficient. Let's begin with the following 3 simple steps:

• The first decision you make, should be the location of the garden. You must locate a place for your survival garden in an area that receives at least 6 hours of sunlight a day.

• The area should have good drainage, be free of silt, and large stones.

• The location must also be near access to water. It should be near enough to a faucet, or other water source, so that you can easily connect a garden hose, soak-er hose, or set up an irrigation system of some kind.

• Good survival garden planning also means locating your vegetable garden somewhere easily accessible and visible, so that you can check frequently for pests, for weeds when you walk by, and consistently view the condition of your plants.

• Make a list of types and varieties of vegetables that you intend to plant, and how many of each you plan to grow. This will also help in determining the size of planting area that you will need for your survival garden.

• Your decision of what vegetables to plant, should NOT be completely random. What you harvest from your garden... WILL BE what you and your family will consume.

• Be practical, make sure to plant vegetables that your family will love to eat. Use varieties that you often use for cooking and those that you would like to preserve for your food storage supply.

• Another important consideration in planning a survival garden, is to know what to plant for your climate zone. This is typically known as your Plant Hardiness Zone, which is your average annual minimum temperatures.

• Before you your waste your valuable time and seed, find out what vegetables and plants grow best in your area. Here are two tips to help you find what plants work best for your Zone:

• In order to get the best production out of your self sufficient garden, make a written plan for the placement of the vegetable plants.

• First consider the frequency of the plants yield. It is most convenient to place perennial vegetables and herbs (see below), or those that are harvested throughout the season, at the back of the garden, or in their own section altogether. They will be less disturbed throughout the other gardening activities.

• The last consideration for arrangement, is the reality that there are vegetable plants that cannot grow beside other plants. For instance, there are plants that inhibit the growth of another when planted together:

View Our Complete Vegetable Companion Planting Chart Here

By following these simple steps when planning a survival garden, you will be rewarded with the many benefits that come from growing and harvesting your own food supply... and therefore becoming more self sufficient.

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