9 tips to start being more self-sufficient in vegetable

6.Grow Field Crops: Corn, Sunflowers, Legumes, Wheat.

Field crops” are crops that don’t require enormous care after you prepare the soil and water until the seedlings are tough. They manage to develop in long rows rather than beds. Ours are dry beans, corn, wheat, and sunflowers.

We prefer to grow the dry beans with the corn, so the corn stalks act as natural trellises. Sweet corn is excellent, but not beneficial enough for us to grow. Corn cross-pollinates easily. To collect seeds from corn, we stick to producing corn for meals.

Mammoth sunflower’s heads are the size of big plates and the seeds are plentiful. We consume some, but we also plant the seeds for our chicks as a wintertime protein source.

You want at least an acre to grow meaningful amounts of wheat. Nevertheless, hard winter wheat is an excellent nitrogen scavenger and grows well after corn. It’s a great use of land in off-seasons and also provides few calories to your diet.