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When food lacks occur, people who have planned ahead with edible survival garden using survival seeds will truly benefit.  People frequently landscape around their houses with stunning flowers, to benefit the birds and butterflieswhy not provide advantage to you personally as well?

Blueberries are easy to plant around a home and with good care it will produce blueberries for muffins, drying, nibbling, ice cream toppings and many other goodies!  Cherry trees can be decorative and productive and if you don’t have space for trees there also are bush cherries available!  In the right areas, tangerines, lime, lemon and orange trees offer fruit and shade.  Coffee plants can be kept in containers on the corner of decks, and cranberries, currants and a large number of other berries can be run along fence lines.

Ginkgo is a long cultivated nut tree with a unusual point in a male and female tree is needed to provide nuts.  They grow up to thirty feet high in full sun, and the males might be kept on your street or front garden with the female back further so you can crop the nuts without competition!

Do you have got a sitting area you’d like to make use of?  There’s not a better area to use for your survival garden than growing herbs!  Planters can host chocolate mint, lemon mint as well as the commoner spearmint and peppermint – keep them separated as they can be intru|invasive.  Rosemary, thyme, lavender, lemon grass and horseradish are all productive plants as well .  You can, with a little research, create a tea garden to slurp sweet tea on summer afternoons, or a potpourri/craft garden if that’s an interest for you.  Best of all is a kitchen garden – garlic, basil, savoury and a wide range of other plants can be grown in most areas.  You get a year’s worth of landscaping plus food.  Plants such as rosemary can handle quite a bit of trimming once established and fresh herbs are much better than the processed ones!

Adventurous gardeners may try less common plants such as josta berry, jujubes and apricots.  If you like nuts, almonds are another possibility for those with extra space.  Have a shady area you want to use?  Get a log implanted with shiitake mushrooms, which can last several years.  This is a great way, if you like mushrooms, to grow your own and use the space that isn’t completely in the sun.

Strawberries are a manifest choice for little effort.   A flower box with pansies can generate lovely lavender pansy.  Rhubarb is another possibility, with rhubarb pie being a favourite of many of us.

This is just as feasible for those in cooler climates as in the seaside sectors.  Smaller trees and shrubs can provide substantial food for a little family as well as dressing up your yard with flowers and perfume – after all flowers are required for fruit!

Some use vines to cover areas and among the vines that may be used is grapes.  Gourds and other vines may also be ‘trained’ up a trellis.

A natural offshoot as you start your survival garden with eatable food is composting – compost bins do not have to be unsightly!  While many use pallets – which can be ‘dressed up’ with flowers or ‘hidden’ behind bushes – an older trash can works really well also.  An old metal one that will leak is great – put a few holes in it and dress it up with a coat of paint.  You won’t have to pay to have grass and other things hauled off – compost it, turn it back to something helpful for your survival garden!

The University of Nevada designed, installed and maintained a strip in the city of Reno.  One area was designed to attract insects ( which pollinates the landscaping ), but there had been also a salsa garden, salad/herb garden, evergreens, ‘Three Sisters garden’, tomatoes and ground cherries.  This is a great use of space!

There are many web sites and books available on these subjects like survival food storage; it isn’t difficult or expensive to provide edible survival garden!  To find out more about other essential survival gear, go to http://essentialsurvivalgearcatalog.com.

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I grew up in Ontario and only moved to New Brunswick as an adult but the full moon is the same here as there and the reasons for paying attention to it is the same.

I have been following the cycles of the moon for most of my life. It just hasn’t been for gardening purposes. I have used the cycle of the moon for recreational fishing. I tend to plan my fishing trips based on the cycles of the moon.

What I have noticed over the years is that when the moon is full the air temperature tends to drop. The moon’s cycle can start to affect the temperature as early as a week before the full moon and a week after the full moon.

As a kid I learned a great gardening tip about the cycle of the moon and planting your garden.

I used to watch my father when he was planning our garden. Back then our garden was not a hobby garden, it had to get us through the long cold winters. So it was serious business.

Dad had a couple of rules to follow, that I can remember that is. He would not plant certain things before June 10th because of the what I remember as the June 10th frost.

Today I looked at my new calendar for 2009 and immediately turned to June so I could see just when the full moon is for June.

I see that the full moon for June is on the 7th this years so I will be sure to keep  my delicate plants in the green house until about the 14th and those that I have already planted will be covered each night until the threat of a late frost has passed.

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I am a bit embarrassed to say this but man did I mess up our first year as backyard gardeners. My wife left it in my capable hands but I think she should have looked to see if I had a green thumb first.

Not to worry though. It was a learning experience and we will do much better planning this winter.

I am sure that I am not alone when it comes to being a newbie as a backyard gardener. So rather than just plan things in secret I decided to share a few tips that should help us and those that read this post.

Backyard Garden Tips For Spring

Garden Tip #1: Start planning your garden NOW, while it’s still winter. We waited until it was already spring before we started our planning and by the time we had our plan in place we were late, very late.

It’s all a learning experience by there is no need to learn the hard way, like we did last season.

Garden Tip #2: Know the nutrients and soil conditions for each plant you put in your garden, whether they are vegetables, fruit or flowers, they all have nutritional requirements that will cause them to suffer if not met.

Garden Tip #3: Our soil sucks big time and almost like concrete so we chose to use raised bed so that we would have the right soil no matter where we planted.

Garden Tip #4: Know what the spacing for each plant you decide to grow but keep in mind that some plants can be planted fairly close together and then thinned out as they grow.

This tip is great for those that like baby beets or baby turnips. You can have an early treats while giving the rest of the plants more room to grow as they mature.

Garden Tip #5: Keep good notes on your progress and don’t give up if you mess it up like I did. Just learn from those mistakes and do better next time.

Even though I was late planting we still had a lot of great produce, just not as much as we would have if we had planted a month sooner.

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