What you will have is the knowledge to grow food, which you scale up to feed yourself and can others for much longer. That is an extremely valuable skill.
Those four tomatoes will feed you, but only after you have harvested all the seeds, which will grow dozens of plants next season, and feed hundreds of people, and yield thousand sof seeds for an even larger crop next year.
Surviving through the first growing season is the trick.
If we’re talking about post-Armageddon dystopia, a tomato is a tomato. We aren’t worried about quality, just quantity. Tomatoes produce a lot of seeds, just grow them. Toss a bunch of hybrids together to cross-pollinate, watch for the best ones, and in a several generations you’ll have a super tomato.
What you will have is the knowledge to grow food, which you scale up to feed yourself and can others for much longer. That is an extremely valuable skill.
Those four tomatoes will feed you, but only after you have harvested all the seeds, which will grow dozens of plants next season, and feed hundreds of people, and yield thousand sof seeds for an even larger crop next year.
Surviving through the first growing season is the trick.
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Only if you grow heirloom tomatoes though. Modern tomatoes are all F1 hybrids so the offspring will be shit probably.
If we’re talking about post-Armageddon dystopia, a tomato is a tomato. We aren’t worried about quality, just quantity. Tomatoes produce a lot of seeds, just grow them. Toss a bunch of hybrids together to cross-pollinate, watch for the best ones, and in a several generations you’ll have a super tomato.
Also print out that wikipedia article about crop rotation. And get a handbook about weeds.
Also my favorite gardening subject: COMPOST!
I love compost. I could write a book on compost.
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