| When food shortages occur, people who have | | | | most areas. You get a year's worth of landscaping |
| planned ahead with edible survival garden using | | | | and food. Plants such as rosemary can handle quite |
| survival seeds will truly benefit. People regularly | | | | a lot of trimming once established and fresh herbs |
| landscape around their houses with beautiful flowers, | | | | are so much better than the processed ones! |
| for the benefit of the birds and butterflieswhy not | | | | Venturesome gardeners may try less common plants |
| be of benefit to you personally as well? | | | | like josta berry, jujubes and apricots. If you like |
| Blueberries are straightforward to plant around a | | | | nuts, almonds are another possibility for those with |
| home and with good care it will produce blueberries | | | | additional space. Have a shady area you would like |
| for muffins, drying, nibbling, ice cream toppings and | | | | to use? Get a log implanted with shiitake |
| lots of other goodies! Cherry trees can be | | | | mushrooms, which can last many years. This is a |
| decorative and productive and if you don't have | | | | great way, if you like mushrooms, to grow your own |
| room for trees there are bush cherries available! In | | | | and use the space that isn't completely in the sun. |
| the right sections, tangerines, lime, lemon and orange | | | | Strawberries are an obvious choice for very little |
| trees offer fruit and shade. Coffee plants can be | | | | effort. A flower box with pansies can generate |
| kept in containers on the corner of decks, and | | | | lavender pansy preserves as well as decorating. |
| cranberries, currants and a number of other berries | | | | Rhubarb is another possibility, with rhubarb pie being a |
| can be run along fence lines. | | | | fave of many people. |
| Ginkgo is a long cultivated nut tree with a peculiar | | | | This is just as practical for those in cooler climates as |
| point in a masculine and feminine tree is required to | | | | in the tidal sectors. Smaller trees and plants can |
| provide nuts. They grow up to 30 feet high in full | | | | provide considerable food for a tiny family as well as |
| sun, and the males may be kept on your street or | | | | dressing up your yard with flowers and perfume - |
| front porch with the female back further so you can | | | | after all flowers are required for fruit! |
| harvest the nuts without competition! | | | | Some use vines to cover areas and among the vines |
| Do you have got a sitting area you would like to | | | | that may be used is grapes. Gourds and other vines |
| make use of? There's not a better area to use for | | | | can also be 'trained' up a trellis. |
| your survival garden than growing herbs! Planters | | | | A natural offshoot as you begin your survival garden |
| can host chocolate mint, lemon mint as well as the | | | | with eatable food is composting - compost bins don't |
| more common spearmint and peppermint - keep | | | | have to be unsightly! While many use pallets - which |
| them separated as they can be | | | | can be 'dressed up' with flowers or 'hidden' behind |
| intru|invasive.Rosemary, horseradish, thyme, lavender, | | | | bushes - an older trash can works really well also. |
| and lemon grass are all productive plants too. You | | | | An old metal one that will leak is great - put a few |
| can, with a little research, create a tea garden to | | | | holes in it and dress it up with a coat of paint. You |
| slurp sweet tea on summer afternoons, or a | | | | won't have to pay to have grass and other things |
| potpourri/craft garden if that's an interest for you. | | | | hauled off - compost it, turn it into something helpful |
| Best of all is a kitchen garden - garlic, basil, savory | | | | for your survival garden! |
| and a large range of other plants can be grown in | | | | |