Life After Doomsday: A Survivalist Guide to Nuclear War and Other Major Disasters by Bruce D. Clayton

Author:Bruce D. Clayton [Clayton, Bruce D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780803747524
Amazon: 0873641752
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

TABLE 9

stockpile with enlarged supplies of the “resistant” crops, Sensitivity of Common Crops to UV

just in case. Some plants, such as onions, cannot survive

EXTREMELY SENSITIVE R

adiation

ultraviolet exposure and cannot be stored long enough MODERATELY SENSITIVE

to bypass the high-ultraviolet period following the war.

Peas

Cantaloupe

We will be forced to grow them in protected greenhouses

Tomatoes

Cauliflower

or they will become extinct. Fortunately, wood frame, Beans

Collards

plastic-covered greenhouses are cheap and can be stored Pumpkin

Parsnip

Okra

Radish

as bundles of precut wood parts and compact rolls of Onion

Chicory

plastic. (Plastic coverings which will block out 80 per-Endive

Carrots

cent or more of incoming ultraviolet are available.) I Watermelon

think the expense and trouble to preserve these species Cucumber RESISTANT

are worth it.

Turnip

Beets

Wheat

Hydroponics, the science of growing plants in arti-

Spinach

Corn

ficial nutrient solutions instead of soil, is also a viable Lettuce

Rye

alternative to traditional gardening. Hobbyist hydro-

Eggplant

Soybeans

ponic tanks can be readily adapted to automatic care of Potato

Barley

greenhouse plants. This is definitely the way to derive Cabbage

Alfalfa

Based on information in Long-term Worldwide

the maximum production from minimum space in a

Effects

of

Multiple

greenhouse. I suggest consulting Home Hydroponics

Nuclear Weapons Detonations, National Academy of Sciences, and How to Do It by Lem Jones, or see Jim McKeever’s

1975; and M.G. Cline and F.B. Salisbury, “Effects of Ultraviolet

“Your Own Food Factory” in MISL number 151.13 For Radiation on the Leaves of Higher Plants,” Radiation Botany 6

a good general introduction to greenhouse manage-

(1966), pp. 151-163.

ment, try Organic Gardening under Glass by George

From this table you can see that most of the seeds in

and

Katy

Abraham.14

the Survival Garden selection may be impossible to

Preserving Food

grow in a post-attack environment. Corn should do

If you plan on producing your own food, the sub-

well, however, especially after the first year or two is past ject of home food preservation will become important to

and ultraviolet levels are starting to drop back to nor-you sooner or later. Growing a large crop of cherries mal. I suggest that you supplement your emergency seed

doesn’t mean you can have cherry pie anytime you want

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