Evacuation Ready Potted Dwarf Trees

Keep your edible garden growing year around, as indoor potted plants, ready to evacuate at a moment's notice. Because some plants have more nutritional and medicinal value for your family, they should be cultivated indoors, and included in your family's daily diet.

Dwarf Lemon & Citrus Trees

Dwarf orange and lemon trees can be grown for additional beverage options, as well as healthy vitamin C content. Citrus fruit slices and zest (from the peel) can be added as flavor enhancers to salads, casseroles, meats, and baked goods, as recommended in the article "Zest for Cooking Enthusiasts".

Oranges are good eaten straight off the tree, whereas sliced and cooked lemons (as with fish or chicken) become sweet and edible, rind included. Lemons also have a natural antibiotic quality which helps to fight off infection, while neutralizing acidity (swelling) throughout the body, for a healthier alkaline ph level.

Dwarf Apple & Papaya Trees

Apple and papaya trees can be potted and dwarfed by trimming off the top branches, forcing growth down along the trunk, which keeps them manageable and fruit-producing. Apples and papayas are also healthy, packed with vitamins, enzymes, and fiber for proper food digestion, and are naturally super-sweet.

These fruits provide potent, natural sweeteners for juicing (making vegetable extracts more palatable) and can help to cut down on sugar use when substituted in cooking or baking. Growing organically, without the use of unnecessarily-toxic bug sprays or weed killers, will ensure your family can safely eat produce directly off the trees, and/or juice the entire fruit.

For additional growing instructions for fruit trees, refer to the book "How to Grow an EMERGENCY Garden", and for suggested meal or beverage usages refer to the healthful cookbook "ABC's of Nutritious Cooking". Remember to evacuate with your potted dwarf trees, and when planted together with other nutritious edibles, you will have a continually renewing food source.