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Survival Garden Seeds


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Survival garden seeds are an absolute must for any long-term food storage program. No matter what type of preserved foods you store, freeze dried, dehydrated, canned or MRE's, sooner or later that food will run out. Not only that, but eating beef jerky and freeze-dried ice cream for every meal will get old real fast.

Even if you are not a real vegetable eater now, in a world where potato chips and Big Macs are no longer on the menu, raw carrots, fresh corn and broccoli will have a brand new appeal. However, without some planning now, you’ll be facing the end of your food stores with nothing to replace them.

Fresh-Grown is Always Best

That does not have to be the case. By purchasing a good supply of heirloom garden seeds, you will have what you need to feed yourself for the rest of your life and your children’s lives. That will only happen if you have the right seeds; heirloom seeds or non-hybrid seeds.

Why does it matter what kind of seeds you have? After all seeds are seeds, right? Wrong. You see modern technology has created seeds that produce bigger and better fruits and vegetables that are also disease resistant. Unfortunately they are also what are called “terminator seeds”. In other words, you have to purchase seeds each year. You cannot save hybrid seeds and hope to get the same type and quality of produce that those seeds came from.

On the other hand, non-hybrid or heirloom seeds will produce plants and fruits or vegetables with seeds that will reproduce. This means you can save those tomato seeds and plant them next spring and get more tomatoes. This is just not possible with hybrid seeds.

If you are storing food against an uncertain future, make sure you lay in a store of non-hybrid garden seeds. Now you can buy seed packets individually, at an average cost of $3-4 per packet, plus shipping. Then you must also decide the best way of storing these seeds so that they will be viable for a number of years. Since most seeds are only store well for one year, the wrong storage method could leave you with seeds that won’t sprout.

We at Survival-Homestead.com have found that Survival Garden Seeds offers both the variety and storability needed for our long-term food storage program. These seeds are non-hybrid and will reproduce true, with seeds that can be saved for the next planting season. Additionally they can be stored 3 to 6 times longer than those store-bought seed packets.

Garden Seeds for Survival come in a #10 can with 16 varieties of seeds. Additionally, each can contains extensive information on soil preparation, planting guidelines, as well as information on seed collection for the next season. When stored at temperatures below 75°F, these seeds will remain viable for 4-6 years. Storing these cans of seeds in a refrigerator or freezer will extend their shelf-life even further.

Each #10 can of Garden Seeds contains the following seed varieties:

    Golden Bantam sweet corn - 5 oz.
    Blue Lake pole beans - 5 oz.
    Little Marvel sweet garden peas - 10 oz.
    Scarlet Nantes carrots - 6 g
    Utah Sweet Spanish onions - 10 g
    Golden Acre cabbage - 10 g
    Lucullus Swiss chard - 8 g
    Detroit Dark Red beets - 8 g
    Waltham Butternut winter squash - 6 g
    Ace 55 VF tomato - 3 g
    Black Beauty zucchini squash - 6 g
    Barcarolle Romaine lettuce - 4 g
    Yolo Wonder pepper - 5 g
    Champion radish - 10 g
    Bloomsdale Long Standing spinach - 10 g
    Marketmore 76 cucumber - 8 g

These are all open-pollinated, non-hybrid vegetable seeds. These Survival Garden Seeds will produce vegetables that will produce seeds that can be collected. These saved seeds can then be planted the next season, keeping the cycle of vegetables and seed saving going year after year.

If you are looking for an emergency food supply for your home or retreat, then freeze dried foods are going to be your best choice.

 
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