Author Topic: Ten things to do NOW (Read 30376 times)

Matthew · « **Reply #25 on:** November 20, 2010, 09:57:11 AM »

I found a place online that only charges $1.50 a pack for heirloom seeds -- no more (or less) than the big box stores charge for their hybrid seeds!
http://rareseeds.com/shop/

So you don't have to *pay extra* for heirloom seeds.

The number of years a seed remains viable *at room temperature* varies by seed. Some seeds it's a year or two; others last 5 years or more. Naturally, the larger seeds last longer.

Seeds must last a lot longer when frozen; that's why you have those seed banks up in the far north such as the "Doomsday" seed vault.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

Matthew

MyrnaM · « **Reply #26 on:** November 20, 2010, 11:44:23 AM »

Interesting discussion about seeds, I will search for that seed link Matthew, but just in case I can't find it, could you post it here.

I want to order my seeds now, while we still can.

Matthew · « **Reply #27 on:** November 20, 2010, 12:03:00 PM »

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

http://rareseeds.com/shop/

They seem to be no more than Park Seed and other catalogs which *don't* specialize in heirloom seeds.

My first year gardening (in my own house, at least) I ordered a bunch of seeds from Park Seed -- they were $2, $2.50, etc. per package. About the same as Baker Creek -- at least the latter offers Heirloom seeds!

Let's just say I don't feel like I'm spending much more to get heirloom -- unless you compare it with "clearance" pricing at the big box stores. I sometimes get those just as a bonus.

Matthew

MyrnaM · « **Reply #28 on:** November 20, 2010, 12:09:58 PM »

Thanks, and isn't it so that with the Heirloom seed, we can save the seeds for another planting without fear of unhealth plants. Might also be another bartering tool.

St Jude Thaddeus · « **Reply #29 on:** November 20, 2010, 09:27:24 PM »

I went to M.D. Creekmore's site to see where Matthew got the OP. It is http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/

I voted on the poll that the "fall" would be coming in three to five years. I'm a big believer in inertia. Actually, I believe that Western Civilization collapsed in the 1960's; for the past fifty years we've been running on fumes. I think we can limp along for another few years, though, even through the rest of Obama's term. Then somebody will be elected who will put a few bandaids on the gushing artery, and death will be staved off for a little while longer. Eventually, though, the patient will expire in a pool of his own poisoned blood.