You may be surprised to learn that the number and range of different foods that you can grow at home is surprisingly large.
However, whilst there be the temptation to run off and start growing mangos or something that tastes sugary and nice once its picked, a lot of the options that are available wont be practical either because of the time they take to grown, lack of space or the restrictions placed on you by the environment that is available to you.
The next and possibly the most challenging part of this big step towards what might feel like a very new way of living will once again to focus only on what you need and not what you want.
The aim above anything else is nutrition, so that even if you cannot reach the intake of the daily number of calories that would be recommended specifically for you, what you do have available to eat will always be good for you.
These are the kinds of vegetables that you can grow from not already doing anything – depending on what resources you have available or are able to secure:
- Potatoes
- Carrots
- Lettuce
- Cauliflower
- Cucumber
- Marrow
- Turnips
- Swedes
- Parsnips
- Tomatoes
- Sweetcorn
- Onions
The chances are that there are more options and different varieties of the options that are available to you, that will become clearer to you as you determine what your options really are, and what will work best for you in your situation.
My suggestion would be that you identify which growing systems are available to you, and that you then research which foods it will be easiest to grow in the shortest times possible.
You may also want to consider things like what resources you will need to keep providing on an ongoing basis, so that once you have harvested each crop, you will have all that you will require so that you can grow and harvest the next.
Like everything in life, growing food is a learning curve. Every time you go through the cycle you know more than you did before, and when growing food makes a real difference, it will help you to have already learned the lessons about what kind of growing works best for you and to have knowledge of all that is involved.
The best way to be able to Prepare, Produce and make Provision is to start growing your own right now!
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