How To Grow Food - Without Land!

[scoops_uk]

There's always the option of a few gorilla permaculture experiments. This is essentially what hunter gatherers do: scatter the seeds of edible plants to create bigger patches in the wild. Find something tasty growing near home, then bash some of it's competitors and maybe scatter a few more of it's seeds to help create a better patch in the future.

It's startling how little people know about what is edible in our countryside, you could have a gigantic vegetable patch and if it didn't look like rows on an allotment, I doubt anyone would ever touch it.

Scoops

[triffid]

Good idea re 'gorilla permaculture'.
I think others have posted that a mix of Jerusalem artichokes & potatoes (which look like weeds to the uninitiated) would be a good start, particularly if you could 'encourage' nettles* around them. A subtle barbed wire fence might keep many animals away?


* Select a suitable clump of nettles, make a clearing & plant veg. - If you cut back nettles don't chuck them away, soak them for a few weeks in a tub of water & the resulting liquid is a great liquid fertilizer.

[the-gnole]

You're monkeying around aren't you

Guerrilla gardening might get better results

[triffid]

Thanks for the spelling correction g-nole - 'guerrilla' not 'gorilla'! * but Scooops-uk is correct to describe the process as 'permaculture' rather than 'gardening' in this instance.

Permaculture being a balanced combination of veg/plants that grow in the same plot - in a way that the various elements support one another.


* Scoops-uk & I must have the same 'dyslectionary'! ( a contraction of' dyslexia' & 'dictionary')

[scoops_uk]

You're monkeying around aren't you

Nah, it's how the Gorilla's do it honest

Scoops