It doesn't always go to plan

[Steve]

In a SHTF time, I would be sowing small amounts of seeds over a longer period, to minimize the chances of a freak event killing everything and to prevent the problems of storing a glut of one variety. I also like to mix up the planting so that one type of pest finds it more difficult to find every particular plant, so gooseberries live next to blueberries and raspberries, beetroot are interplanted with lettuce with tomatoes on the north side, etc. I have no scientific basis for this, it just seems right somehow. Radishes can be planted anywhere you can find a bit of soil between another crop.