This years tomatoes

[Mongrel]

Some times I think we are growing the wrong things! Up here in the north of Scotland the growing season is short is we have to use green houses or poly tunnels to get good crops, which is all very well but outside in the wild weeds seem to do incredibly well without any help from us.

And most are eat able. Try growing a crop of stinging nettles or dandelions, couldn’t be easier and both are delicious when served correctly, Sorrel or “sourdock” as it's known up here again grows easily.
Chard is another green that grows like a weed, great for soups and stews birch trees for sap and the leaves for salad, pig nuts and wild mushrooms, the list could be extended to meet most of your needs, and without much effort in the way of gardening

I'm not saying abandon all the modern plants but from a preppers point of view the easier to grow, the more reliable the better

Mongrel