9 tips to start being more self-sufficient in vegetable

5.Maximize Space: Onions and Garlic

the author of How to Grow More Vegetables, John Jeavons, quotes to onions and garlic as “calorie crops.” Separately, they don’t have a bunch of calories. Nevertheless, you can densely plant them, so you plant a lot in a tiny space.

Utilizing John Jeavon’s planting method, you can easily fit 1343 onion or garlic plants in a 100 square foot planting area. I haven’t prepared yields like that yet. Nevertheless, I have become close by growing my storing onions on 5-6 inch centers and then densely interplanting spring onions throughout the bulb onions.

I collect the spring onions as needed for cooking, from April to June. Then, if the storing onions start forming bulbs, they have loads of space to grow into softballs.

Garlic is excellent for food self-sufficiency because you grow it in the fall and harvest in early summer. After you harvest, you still have loads of opportunity to replant those beds with summer and fall veggies. Soft-neck types also give you garlic scapes for fresh eating.