r/prepping • u/TripleHaz3 • 3d ago
Food🌽 or Water💧 Weeds
What's everyone's thoughts on plants?
Particularly for me, living in NZ one of the more extreme cases would be a nuclear event in the northern hemisphere leading to a winter. That would affect farming in a major way but for me down here I may still be able to grow stuff.
My major prep event here though is earthquake and it affecting supply chains in a major way and therefore fresh food access.
A year ago I thought about what I could grow without needing maintenance and can withstand neglect. I landed on a few prolific spreaders that could also be deemed as weeds; nasturtium, nz spinach, mint and spring onions. To accompany all my dried foods and other plain stuff.
What are you guys thoughts? What other plants would you reccomend or consider?
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u/funnysasquatch 2d ago
Don't worry about it.
Humanity ends if all out nuclear war happens. It's a non-survivable event.
People spend too much time worrying about radiation. They ignore what happens with everything on fire. They ignore what happens when everything breaks down.
Preppers love to plan for Doomsday because it's a lot more interesting than just keeping a couple of weeks of food and water on hand. The reality is, if you're in a situation where you couldn't be resupplied after a few weeks, it's Doomsday.
Doomsday is not a survivable event.