We would always tell change my mother and tell her that she's like onions. Onions she said when she was little a lot of times for homemade bread child butter and wholesome green onions not bad actually pretty good

I remember my grandpa eating home grown garlic sandwiches. My family lived with the grandparents for 7 years and I am now 75. We used to even have the dripping from cooking on bread and butter as well as sugar on buttered bread for a treat. Grandpa used to catch eels down the creek and being English and Scottish we ate a lot of cheap meat products of offal like kidneys, liver, tripe, lambs brains. Both garlic and onions pa said, were a reason he never caught a cold. Natural foods then with no additives or preservatives were more healthy than now.

@@gayedawn1 I remember my grandpap talking about eating tripe. He had grandma make it for him once in awhile. I think he tried to get my mom to try eating it and she said no thanks, lol. He was born in Scotland but came over to the US with his mother and Aunt, his father died when he was a baby. He never had any childhood diseases, so when we as children got the chicken pox or the measles, he had to stay clear of us for a few months. His doctor told him that if he contracted any of these childhood diseases as an adult man, it could be deadly. He said he had the croup when he was a teenager, and they gave him a spoonful of sugar with some kerosene in it! He took it and said it got rid of the croup! He told his doctor that story when he was an adult, and the doctor said it's a wonder that didn't kill you. They stopped at our house once when I was young, and I was sick in bed, with a very bad sore throat. He came in the bedroom with grandma and mom to check on me. He stayed after grandma and mom left the room, and he saw the Vicks vaporub on my nightstand, and said to me, take a little bit of the Vicks vaporub and swallow it! I was only 8 years old and said, no grandpap, it's supposed to go on your chest, on your skin. He said he knew, but it would help if I took a bit and swallowed it. He said back when he was young, if you had an earache, ear infection, they'd get the inner part of an onion, the part that looks like a long stem with a bump on top... they'd put that in their ear at bedtime and sleep with it in their ear all night, to draw the sickness out. I remember my grandparents conversations, and there were no antibiotics back then. They would talk about people they knew, relatives, friends, that died during childhood, teenage years, from colds or infections that turned into pneumonia. It was no wonder they had remedies of all sorts for when they got the sniffles. They wanted to nip it in the bud as soon as they could before it turned into something much worse.

@@suzannefronzaglio2427 so many old remedies are coming back now and many herbs and spices in our cupboard have medicinal uses too. Funny your post reminded me that we also had to put Vicks on our tongues.

@@suzannefronzaglio2427 it’s interesting what you said about kerosene, I recently heard that it’s beneficial, I think you need the pure form as opposed to the kind we use today that has additives, but it’s like soo many other things that’s works that we’ve been made afraid of…

Amen 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

And winter squash

And sweet potatoes.

And Zucchini Squash.

Add beans to your potatoes, onions, and winter squash.

Some folks here on the Gulf Coast grow potatoes, onions & carrots over winter. I have planted a half-dozen broccoli starts in early November and gotten 2 bushels over mid-January through late February.

What is the verse you are referring to?

Jeannette Forbes Esther 4:14

I own a greenhouse and barter alot

Doesn't help if no one has anything to trade

@@patrapper7367 ok

So if I can figure out how to grow toilet paper I can trade for everything else?

@@xn85d2 It’s called mullein. So, probably no.

Thanks

These are really good additions to the list. I would add turnips for the tops and the roots, sunflowers and pepita pumpkins for their seeds, maybe bell peppers for their vitamin c content and even though they are not a vegetable, I would plant a couple apple varieties just because apples are so versatile. From Danny's list I would agree with onions, garlic, white potatoes and sweet potatoes. Any kind of squash can be wiped out by squash bugs and sugar cane takes a lot of time and effort for empty calories.

Are you serious?!?! what a great tip thank you!!!!

@@pbudinsky1 You are Welcome ❤,,,,,️ I Love them ,,,I've used them on salads Raw ,on pizza, in spegetti Sauce, Freeze Alot, and of course Fried , there was some" old" Sorghum Field's many Miles from me and people find so many they sell sacks full of course it's grew up now & no longer a fields , massive amounts of mushrooms Every Year, where those old Sorghum Field's use to be.

@@JaneDoe-ti9fr What the heck is sorghum? lol . Seroiusly you have me interested here. Is is some kind of plant juice for mollasis? I gotta look thet up.I love gardening (O:

@@tullysoulliere8103 it's a cane plant just like sugar cane , from what my aunt told me, all I know is that where it was planted in Field's many years ago there's Mushrooms Galore. She just said it's in the grass family .

Did your family raise it and take into syrup to?

Absolutely I have to get on that.

Good for you. Im glad you are growing no matter what. When i lived in a townhouse. I did not have ground just containers. I grew alot of food.

Amen everything tastes better when you grow it yourself there is no Roundup in Miracle-Gro on it to give you cancer or some disease LOL you actually know peed and pooped on it too

Classic rock Lover I always use honey instead of sugar when I’m making bread

You can also grow Stevia for sweetener.

Thank you for the feedback I always keep raw honey. I love it and it's good for you. I eat it everyday with raw garlic. Many health benefits.

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Yacon is another alternative. you can use them to make yacon syrup.

We love ours also potato onions

awww

What tropical country.. I'd love to go. But they probably won't let me out of this one.

Where did you buy it from? I’m looking for seeds and it’s basically impossible for me to find!

Can't find it anywhere. Nichols Garden Nursery up in New York said that company went out of business. Pine tree Seeds no longer carries it either. So, whoever can obtain some seeds, then cultivate, could make some money, especially if fodder for animals.....

@@Alexis_9339 Hi Alexis, I have extra seeds that I would be happy to send to you but I am not literate on how to get your address privately. .

@@norxgirl1 I originally purchased them from Pine Tree, I looked when you all said you couldn’t find them, and yes you are right!! Crazy!!! I do have extra seeds that I will send you. I just don’t know how to do it privately. Also I don’t want to make any $, just a GOD BLESSING from me to you!

I 10,000% agree with you there. Cheers and good luck :)

Agreed

Hereward The Watchful - we have JA growing wild here in western Kentucky! We moved some to our property and it is spreading like crazy so we gave it its own garden. Wonderful plant!

@@StringfieldRidgeFarm - That's awesome! I've been trying to establish these on my farm for years but the deer and other critters dig them up as soon as I plant them. This year I spread them out. One in the greenhouse, one sprouting in the windowsill, and one in a caged area outside. I hear they're hard to get rid of once established. It's just overcoming the critters is my biggest challenge.

You feed your critter children? What kind of critter is it?

Smiley Blue, I agree, just woke up too late :(. I will do what I can.

J Mc Do all you can because food shortages are on the horizon. View Christian’s video, the Ice Age Farmer on yt. Scary stuff. Danny has also given us videos from his porch about food shortages. Watch them too and don’t forget to smash the LIKE button. Blessings to you.

I was told the leaves are good to eat and my daughter was right!

Find a rabbit breeder and buy thier manure i bet they will love you

plant morina!

Get some straw bales and plant sweet potatoes in them. Look up a video or two. Works great!

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You have a short growing season. So pick things you will eat that grow and mature during your season.

Hi Donna my Aunt use to cut a piece off a potatoe for me when I was a kid and I would put salt on it and munch it down.I still do this when cutting a potatoe and it reminds me of her.I am part Estonian and my Family have eaten lots of potatoes.Be well there.

I use to to...lost my teeth

Growing up we had potatoes everyday cooked all sorts of ways, pinto beans as well . My dad didn’t think it was a complete meal without them, lol . I still have a potato almost everyday in some form. I just love them.

Ma Ma always told me," Stop eating them raw potatoes your gonna get worms"! Is this true. I used to eat them raw. loved them.

Eat them raw????

Agree on the sweet potatoes. The only two potatoes we are growing this year is sweet and red potatoes. Peas and beans are also a great veggie to grow as they are also a good source of protein.

i agree LR. if space is an issue, i wouldn't waste it on onions. lol lentil, peas, potatoes, kale, peanuts, walnuts, beans protein + vitamins roses for vitamin c which you will keep you from getting scurvy. without vitamin c, scurvy will set in in a few weeks and become severe in a few months. if you want to plant onions, plant a few around the roses to keep aphids away.

They do just as fine in southern areas of Canada. Actually be sure where you want them, because they are there to stay. Great food insurance. The bulb can be eaten raw or cooked, and the bees love the flowers.

Yes it is.

Only after I'm gone.

Lol my husband loves onions. He eats pb and onion sandwiches.lol

My gram used to cut up onions and eat with milk.

Dark Age Growing, Wow, so I am in the same zone. Do tell what works ;)

Dark Age Growing : Are you sure you in zone 8. I am in South Alabama in zone 8-b

Dark age same zone as you. I've never grown sweet potatoes sucessfully. I planted peas, potatoes. My onions and garlic in. Like you said still cold.

Zone 8 central Texas

I buy garlic bulbs produce walmart, ,nice row growing, green onions too in flower pot looking good, want some snip with succor garlic the same.