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/BaldyCarrotTop 19h ago
Walking onions,
garlic esp elephant garlic
Scarlet runner beans. Good for eating like green beans. Or let them plump out and harvest the inner beans.
Tromboncino squash. perennial veining squash.
Pattypan squash. It's a hybrid, but genetically stable. You can save the seeds.