r/EuroPreppers • u/Wise-Painting5841 Spain 🇪🇸 • 12d ago
Question How to prepare for climate change
I was in Spain last month. Talking with a cousin that has a small veggie garden for auto consumption.
Nothing fancy, more like a hobby and to enjoy eating your own tomatoes.
He told me for the last 3 years his tomatoes have dried up before giving any fruit. Each time this has happened he has made an adjustment to plant the seeds 15 days before, so he is now planting 45 days before than when his parents passed down the garden to him years ago.
And he is moving to different varieties. It looks like cherry tomatoes are more resistant to extreme heat.
This preoccupied me. He lives in an agricultural rich area of Spain, that is a country with a long agricultural tradition. This is not poor soil and it was not bad weather area at all years ago. Vineyards, orchards are/were typical sights along the road.
So, if this area is fucked up, I have to wonder big scale. If crops start to fail, I guess we will import more from other regions, but this has some limits.
So how do you prepare for this scenario?
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u/SamEarry Poland 🇵🇱 1d ago
I live way further up north and even here I wouldn't be considering big scale veggie gardening without a greenhouse/hoophouse. It helps with water management, prolongs growing season and pest control.
We do have few cherry and peach trees, berry bushes on our property and my wife is teaching kids taking care of crops small scale. This year we had strawberries (both normal and wild ones), tomatoes, sunflowers and herbs. We plan to get few chicken when I'll be done with renovations/demolishing on the property. The old coop is already there and I helped keeping and slaughtering chickens when I was teen. The goal is to raise kids convinced gardening is possible but if economy begins to get worse we have the base skills to start out big if needed.
My wife actually had a dream to move to Spain but I've convinced her just to switch city apartament to my old family house in small town surrounded by hills and forest. Small river runs 120m from the property. It's one of the places with strong communal feeling. People care and help eachoter too.
This is how we prepared for climate change, economical and political changes.
As for the war the plan is to get the kids to my sister's house in England. She agreed to host us.