Growing Doomsday Tomato Beefsteak
This page talks about growing doomsday tomato beefsteaks during a doomsday crisis. Here we talk about how many tomatoes you need to survive on a 1200 a day calorie diet. The numbers given are for one person, for one year eating only tomatoes.
One cup of tomatoes contains about 30 calories. One beefsteak tomato will usually fill up one cup. You may even have a bit more. Tomatoes have many wonderful benefits.
You can read about these on the internet or scan the QR code.
But you would not want to live on a diet of tomatoes. Hopefully there will be other things to eat.
Growing Doomsday Tomato Beefsteak
A fresh tomato will only last about 7 to 14 days without refrigeration.
So based on a 1200 calorie diet, one would need to consume about 40 cups of tomatoes per day.
One should be able to get at least 40 tomatoes off one plant.
One plant per day is 365 plants. So we would plant 400 plants for eating and seed production for the following year and reserves. Always have reserves in the event that something goes wrong with one batch.
You
should be able to plant the 400 plants on about 1/4 acre of land. Don't
plant all your seeds at one time. Space them out so that you can
extend your harvest season and are not overworked from harvesting
and processing tomatoes.
There are many YouTube videos that talk about recipes for tomato storage. There are also many videos that explain how to save seeds from tomatoes. We will not repeat this information.
You will want to have materials on hand for processing your tomato harvest.
You would need about 40 cups a day of tomatoes. This would be about 400 plants to produce all you need. Do not plant them all at the same time. Stagger them for a staggered harvest.
These mature green so a scavenger may think there is something wrong with them and by-pass them. They may think the same thing with the purple one as well.
The Growing Tomato QR Code has lots of information on growing tomatoes.
Make dried chips. Make a spice from the dried tomatoes. Maybe you will even have enough ingredients to make tomato ketchup or salsa. Tomatoes can be peeled and stored in 32 ounce container jars. Tomatoes, when ripe, will not last long so they will need to be processed immediately after harvesting.
Plant off color tomatoes and most people won't bother with them. They are used to red tomatoes. People have been conditioned to eat the colors of vegetable found in the stores
When was the last time you saw a beefsteak tomato in the store? Never! When was the last time you saw a beefsteak tomato of a color other than red. Never!
In order to survive, you must decided that you can survive. Like life, surviving is 80% mental.
The rest is physical. You will need to be in some sort of physical shape.
Once
you realize you are in a doomsday situation you will need to fast. A
full, no food fast. Fast for as many days as you can. The more days you
can fast, the better. This will shrink your stomach and get your body used to doing with less.
You Can Survive
As you fast, your stomach shrinks. As it shrinks, the less food you will need to feel full. Once you start eating again, you will need to figure out how much food you have, how long it needs to last and how many people will be eating.
If you have never fasted before, then practice. At first you think you are going to die, but you will not.
Plan on using some food to trade.
The idea is to have your stored food supply last, while you grow and produce your own. Hopefully you have started some things that mature quickly, so you can start supplementing your food supply to make it last longer.
I have seen people who are paying outrageous amounts of money for dried foods. Right now is the time to make your own. It costs a lot less. Use a dehydrator or a flash food drier. You can dry and store a lot of food.
Of course you can use canning to preserve food before doomsday.
Be careful of where you store your food. I have seen people store the food in a house built out of wood on shelves built out of wood. Wood burns. In just a few minutes you can lose your doomsday supply.
Use off color tomatoes in your food plan. People will think there is something wrong and bypass it.
You will need to use your imagination to hide or camouflage your garden. The greens will be hard to camouflage unless you just grow plants here and there on your property. Plant some with natural landscape. If scavengers do not know what it looks like, then maybe you will actually get some.
Learn how to hide your harvest. In the ground, air, even in water if you have a creek, lake or river.
Practice the 1/3 rule for hiding seeds. 1/3 for current planting, 1/3 for back up and 1/3 for emergencies, scavengers or trading.
When hiding, use a simple plan that you can remember. Try not to write any of it down so scavengers cannot find it.
Hide some so a scavenger can find it, easily but not too easy. Don't lie to them. If you look like you are not starving, they are going to know you are eating. Use some common sense.
You can survive. But you need to be preparing, today.
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