Easy vegetables, nuts and fruit that any idiot can grow

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Food is expensive, but good news for you is that you can grow your own food easily.

Here is a list of food anyone can grow:

1) Carrots

Carrots are too easy to grow. They grow even if they dont receive any care. They grow in almost any soil. Even if the soil is not loose. Even if you crowd them together with no proper spacing. They even grow in pots filled with dirt from your yard.

2) Beetroots

Beetroots, like carrots, are surprisingly easy to grow. With these plants, you literally cant fail. They always grow.

3) Fruit trees and nuts

Fruit trees are too easy to grow. You just buy a small tree and plant it, and you have free food for over 15 years. Some are very tasty, like plums. Nuts are same. Walnuts and hazelnuts might not be too tasty, but they have lots of calories.

4) Parsley

Parsley is good spice. It is easy to grow, but not very nutritious.

5) Swiss Chard

Easy to grow, but produces a lot too. It produces food for years, as long as you dont cut off all the leaves at once.

6) Peas

Peas are easy to grow, but wont produce as much as carrots and beetroots.

7) Raspberries

Raspberries are very easy. You buy few plants and plant it. They will spread all over your yard. They dont need any particular care, maybe mulch them once in a while. They produce tasty raspberries. It takes a while to pick them, but they are easy to eat. Not much chewing needed.

8) Pumpkins

Well, I personally dont like pumpkins. But they produce pumpkins and seeds. Pumpkin and its seeds are edible. So its plenty of food.

With these plants, you probably wont fail ever.

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@Best.Korea

In order to plant enough foodstuff to be sustainable, we must have land. How about a tutorial on how to steal land from the government, or even better, how to make land in your community public and communal, like any good socialist society at a small scale.

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Also, I think you forgot to mention cannabis, possibly, probably, maybe, hopefully.

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Yes, you need land for this. If you dont have it, you can curl up and cry.

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@Intelligence_06

If you happen to not own any land,you can plant in pots. Pots can be easily made from cardboard boxes. Just put duct tape around them so they dont fall apart, and maybe plastic bag inside them. Make sure it has holes.

If you dont have money to buy soil, you can steal soil from local forest and put it in cardboard boxes.

To be somewhat sustainable, you would need about 300 cardboard boxes.

You probably have no place for all of them in your apartment, and leaving them in forest could result in wild animals eating your food instead of you. So yeah, you are doomed.

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@Best.Korea

So yeah, you proposed something totally unrealistic for the average resident of the world and you know it.

I give you an infinite amount of time to revise and optimize your plan so us normies can actually do something.

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@Intelligence_06

So yeah, you proposed something totally unrealistic for the average resident

Oh no, poor average resident.

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8) Pumpkins

Well, I personally dont like pumpkins. But they produce pumpkins and seeds. Pumpkin and its seeds are edible. So it’s plenty of food.

Man I wish. Where I live we get two generations of squash vine borer during the growing season so squashed that take forever for mature like pumpkins are goners unless you soak them in pesticides which I’m not willing to do. Speaking from painful experience here

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@Best.Korea

Look, I totally understand that you just wanna boost your forum count. I get it. But the average resident demands a solution too.

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@thett3

I didnt pay much attention to pumpkins. Mostly because I dislike their taste.

Pumpkins are easy to grow in my area. I just dont grow them anymore because I never eat them.

I heard a lot of people say that pumpkins are easy to grow, so I assumed its true for most areas. I guess they arent suitable for all areas.

Obviously, I would never recommend the use of pesticides. Not if you plan to eat what you grow. Just find plant types that work best for your area.

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But the average resident demands a solution too.

If you dont live near a sea or river or forest or grassland, then there is no solution for you.

You cant forage, hunt, fish or grow.

Food doesnt grow in concrete.

Its not my fault your ancestors thought its better to live in a city. Now pay the price for the crimes of your ancestors.

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The only potatoes need is decent spacing. And everyone likes potatoes.

That being said, growing plants in your apartment isn't particularly feasible. If you've got a south facing window you get no natural sunlight, so you're reliant on setting up grow lights.

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The only potatoes need is decent spacing.

I agree that potatoes are easy to grow. I would recommend them to beginners to plant some of it, but not too much in one place. Pests love potatoes.

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That being said, growing plants in your apartment isn't particularly feasible. If you've got a south facing window you get no natural sunlight, so you're reliant on setting up grow lights.

You can only grow plants if you have sunlight. Some plants require less sunlight than others.

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Growing a few supplementary foods is relatively easy and not too time consuming.

To be self sufficient requires total dedication, with little time for anything else other than essential day to day stuff.

To become self sufficient and retain a comfortable existence in a modern consumer society also requires a whole lot of financial investment and maintenance.

So, growing a few supplementary foodstuffs is what millions of people already do.

And becoming totally self sufficient is what a handful of financially secure people might have a go at.

Hunter gathering I suppose, though to relinquish all social and financial support would mean a hard short existence.

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@zedvictor4

To be self sufficient requires total dedication, with little time for anything else other than essential day to day stuff.

I discovered that an easy way to be more self sufficient is to raise hens for eggs.

Also, an easy way to be self sufficient is to grow trees and vegetables that require little care.

Learning to fish is also easy and kinda fun.

Foraging for wild edibles is also good and doesnt take much time.

Hunting animals is something I would not recommend, but it can be done.

Finally, you can always eat insects. They are disgusting, but they are free.

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I had three orange trees in my yard when I bought my house, they all died from frost bite and disease with in three years.

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Thats unfortunate.

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@Best.Korea

As I stated, it's easy to supplement ones food requirements. I also have fruit trees, grow vegetables and harvest wild stuff.

I found that it was actually cheaper and easier to buy eggs.

I have no desire to try and be totally self-sufficient. Far to time consuming and labour intensive, and I have other things that I enjoy doing.

And I will pass on the insects for now.

Best of luck with your growing ventures.

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I have no desire to try and be totally self-sufficient.

Total self-sufficiency is not essential for survival. But I do like the idea of getting so much stuff for free from nature, or in some cases for the lower cost than that at the market.

I dont have plenty of free time, but I do look around to see whats there and what are my options.

I have lots of trees that I never took care of. I just watered them a little. Some I didnt even water. They still produced food.

I did try to plant vegetables. The 8 ones that I listed here were easiest to grow and I never failed with them.

I also foraged for wild edibles.

What I have to say about vegetables and plants is that you have to cut them in tiny pieces or they will not satisfy your hunger.

When I switched to vegetables and organic food, I noticed that I was feeling hungry after a meal. Probably my body not being used to vegetables.

But that changed when I started cutting vegetables and plants in very tiny pieces. It felt like an entirely different food.

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In hind site it turned out to be a good thing, the dropped fruit attracted rats and raccoons. Don't have a problem with either since then. Now they have been replaced by rabbits, where in the hell did they come from? I have lived in the same house over 20 years and never saw a single rabbit until 3 years ago, now they are everywhere. Couldn't grow a garden if I wanted to.

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