21 Items To Take With You In The Wild For Long Term Survival

We don’t eat wheat, but do know a lot of people with family in the Ukraine.

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its winter you dolt….

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Seagull, maybe you should try this

https://homesteadsurvivalsite.com/how-to-grow-wheat/

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red, I think it’s dryer here than where you are, so plants that can tolerate heat and dry winds would be better. If I remember correctly, you mentioned you get an average of about 16 inches annual precipitation where you live, we get an average of about 10 inches annual precipitation where I live, with a lot of dry winds on-and-off year-round. Last week we had a warm spell for a week or so into the 80’s, then another winter storm blew in and we got frost again this week. Woke up yesterday and there was a thin ice layer on top the dogs water bowl out on the back patio. I’m glad I held off planting the early greens like bak choy and spinach, but I do have six Anjou Pear seedlings about 1/2 inch tall that I recently replanted outside and have been covering them at night to try and save them from the frost. I started with 14 new Anjou sprouts (from seed) but lost 8 from the hot dry winds and grasshoppers eating the tops.

My ever-producing Myers lemon planted in open ground still has lemons from the last batch and has been flowering for several weeks, even with the frost. I checked my other trees in containers for damage, and everything is still alive, although my little mango is struggling – always does. The Guava start we were given last year is still thriving well, didn’t drop any leaves, and has grown from one foot to about two feet over the “winter”. The Fig I bought last fall dropped its leave during winter and is just starting to show news buds. The Fuji Apples I started from seeds about two years ago are about eight feet tall now and have not ever flowered, but they do have new buds and tiny leaves, and a few “suckers” near the bottom I need to prune off. My Avocado I started from seed wintered over very well, is about three feet now with new growth, but the grasshoppers are eating holes in the leaves. I recently planted four Avocado seeds I had rooted int the kitchen window (they had roots but no stems yet) into 5-gsllon buckets and a few days later we got hit with the late frost, so I don’t know if they will survive. My Moringa’s died down over the winter, and the frosts hurt them, but they have new growth and just started flowering again. I thought my two grapes had died, the vines were bare and had dried out over the winter until brittle, but they too have just started putting out a few buds and new leaves. I still have “rogue” tomatoes with ripening fruit on them – they wintered over very well so I will prune them back and repot into 5-gallon buckets. My strawberries had mostly died out from last year’s hot dry winds, but there a few new sprouts of green leaves pushing up, and even a couple of early flowers, so I will replant those soon. I should have planted peas several weeks ago but got sidetracked, and I think this week’s frost will be the last, so I should get busy this week and continue maintenance and early planting.

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red, we live Inland, not on the Coast (I commute) and our humidity is pretty low also, sometimes 10% or less, especially when we get dry winds from the deserts blowing through the mountain valleys. Those winds combined with warm weather kill a lot of my plants, and the younger plants / seedlings are the most vulnerable, although the February frosts did their share of damage.

I’m still trying to figure out the “location, location, location” parts of gardening here. I’m paying a lot more attention to shading and sun movement both front and back of the house, and along the six-foot fence circling around the back that provides full shade in the afternoons to a strip along the edge. I did read some plants do better with morning sun and afternoon shade, but I don’t recall exactly which plants those are, so need to go research again.

My first attempt with grapes, one green and one red, both in containers with larger tomato cages as the “trellises”, are starting to bud and have a few tiny leaves starting. This will be their second full year and I did not prune but have read I was supposed to prune during winter, so have been snapping off any “sticks” that look totally dry and dead and will soon begin pruning off any that don’t have new buds.

My Fuji apples are an experiment to see if I could sprout and grow apple trees from seeds, even though I already knew we probably don’t have enough “cold hours” for them to produce, so last Thanksgiving I took four with us when we visited my family in Oregon where they do grow apples – my nephew was very happy. I know it takes 5-7 years for most apples sprouted from seed to start producing fruit, and I don’t have any expectations they will ever produce in our conditions here in East San Diego County, although they do grow apples in the higher elevations of the mountains out here. I also don’t expect the Anjou Pears I sprouted from seed this winter to ever produce where we live. So far six Pears have survived, and if they live, I will probably take some to family the next time we go visit. Pears also do well in some parts of Oregon.

I need to learn how to start trees from cuttings, and grafting, especially since I have a Myer’s lemon that is a super-producer. I sprouted seeds from this lemon and have five surviving in 5-gallon buckets that are about 2′ tall. I did move one mango so it has been surrounded by the young Fuji apple and Myer lemons and it’s still alive but not looking good. I left the other mango in a more exposed location, and it died. The same for my papayas, none survived the frosts. Ah well, the learning curve continues.

For now, my main goal concerning gardening is to learn as much as I can, with the extra benefit of being able to produce a small amount of truly organic food. On our property, I doubt I can ever grow enough fruits and vegetables to provide what we need, not enough space, not enough water (no well), but it’s excellent education that I will take with me everywhere I go.

Reservoirs in Kalifornication will continue to have problems refilling as long as the idiot Libtard politicians keep directing millions of acres of fresh water to be diverted so it flows into the San Fransicko delta instead of into reservoirs and irrigation systems. This is why the agriculture industries, especially the orchards, have been really decimated. Terrible policies, terrible results.

red, we live in what is considered the Inland microclimate, in an unincorporated area and there are some things that grow and produce very well, but plant selection, timing, location, and proper watering are critical. I’ve only been seriously paying attention to my gardening for the past couple of years, getting better, but have a long, long way to go.

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