Homesteading Focus of the Week
Three vegetables in my survival garden
Three of the vegetables I have included in The Survival Garden, Plant a Garden to Last All Winter that Doesn’t need to be Canned Frozen, or Dehydrated are garlic, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. These are the focus of this week’s homesteading project.
Garlic
The garlic is now dry enough to store. I took the garlic that was damaged and prepped it for drying into garlic powder. For more information about how to dry garlic. Here’s how I did it!
The Potato Harvest
This past week, we finished harvesting our fabric bags of potatoes. We have eaten some but have about 50 pounds of Norland potatoes ready to eat during the summer. We have more potatoes growing in the ground, but those aren’t ready to harvest yet. This is fine. This will help stretch out the potato harvest, so it lasts longer.
After we harvested the potatoes, I immediately put the soil back into the bags and planted sweet potato slips. This gives us a second harvest of calorie and nutrient-dense food that should take us through most of the year.