Secret Survival Garden: Growing Plants Indoors

How to Keep Your Survival Garden Hidden

1. Growing plants inside The best option for keeping your survival garden secret is definitely an indoor garden if you live in a community with little yards or a bustling urban region. If you have any windows facing your garden, cover them with a slightly opaque plastic to keep nosy eyes from seeing what you're eating.

Use full spectrum grow lights in addition to natural light coming from the outside and paint the walls white or reflecting to achieve enough brightness.

To replicate natural breeze and maintain a constant flow of fresh air, install fans and vents. Try growing mushrooms in addition to plants if you are unable to have outside vents. Mushrooms release a lot of carbon dioxide, which plants require. You might be able to make better use of your area with hydroponic gardening.

2. Just the two of us here... roses? At least in cities, the majority of people do not consider flowers to be food. Plant roses, then. If you allow climbing roses to trail over the ground, they can form a thorny barrier that will keep your ground-growing perennials (such as herbs, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and beets) hidden.

Conversely, hedge-type roses can shade shade-loving perennials as well as produce delicious flowers and rose hips, which are a fantastic source of vitamin C for you. As part of your planting, you can also include other edible flowers or flowers that provide edible seeds. Just as easily as they can climb a trellis, beans and peas can also climb robust bushes and flower stems.

3. Disperse It Gardens are typically thought of as spaces with well-groomed plant rows. Let's muck that up. Drop the tomato plants throughout your growing space as opposed to placing them in a row of four or six.

There's a tomato there, another one in the midst of some herbs or onions, and so forth. It is preferable if your garden has less of a traditional appearance. This is when companion planting takes on a slightly different meaning. If strawberries were lurking among asparagus plants, who would have thought it? Who would have guessed that corn, beans, and squash were hidden in this thicket of haphazardly arranged green stalks?

4. Establish Little Forests You can create small survival garden woods on various areas of your land if you have land—anything from half an acre to an acre or more. Plant these little forests in a circle, with a food-producing tree in the middle. The ideal fruit is a non-obvious nut or berry.

Plant shade-loving edible perennials around the tree. And you can plant bushes—ideally thorny ones—around those. Plant mixed herbs and lower growing, sun-loving perennials around those bushes and outward.

You can plant stinging nettles, prickly vines, or any other plant that would discourage intruders on the very edge of the circle. There won't be any signage alerting onlookers to these small forests' food source status as long as there isn't a clear route leading to or from them.

5. Apply Permaculture The small forest method and this method are comparable. Plant perennials in dense clusters or within a portion of built-up organic matter, which consists of branches and logs covered in manure, buried in a thick layer of soil, and packed with hay and straw.

Perennials, including certain trees, thrive in this kind of bed, and the organic stuff in the bed helps hold in water and minimize frequent visits. The plants on it resemble random plants rather than garden beds as the planting deteriorates and the area appears like a mound of dirt.