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Originally Posted by Dusty
I usually buy from "Victory Seed Co." online, but I got the best corn and cukes I ever grew from one of those "scam" companies last year.
I paid about 27 bucks for 16 packs of great seeds.
The only duds were the watermelon seeds, but my Daisy sez the Jays might have dug those up...
BTW-do you grow your own vegetables? If you do, I'll send you some corn seeds that will knock your ass out!
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Dusty I totally get that, and what you are doing is on point. You’re growing now, and enjoying the what you reap now. If you are doing it supplement and drive your food consumption costs down, good on you brother!
What I have issue with is the concept of some cataclysmic event or global upheaval and selling the idea of survival seeds:
http://www.survivalseedsonline.com/
So according to the site: “Save Seeds from this year to plant next year... FOREVER!”
Sure, if you want to live off of corn and peas…FOREVER! The problem I see is that most of those veggies in the basket that the little girl in survival mode is holding happen to be biennials.
So let’s assume after this global food shortage, political upheaval and cataclysmic event that we are 1) still in a permissive environment 2) the conditions will even allow for growing your own food 3)we crack open that SHTF can o’ seeds timed perfectly right at the start of growing season:
The family feeds off of spam until the veggies grow. Then they only eat half of what grows because they need to leave the other half of the biennials in the ground to produce seeds the NEXT YEAR that they can plant the FOLLOWING YEAR. That’s also assuming that the SHTF can o’ seeds that’s been sitting on the shelf germinates the majority of what you put in the ground, and you are lucky enough to live in a temperate zone that doesn’t kill the biennial plants off in the winter. That girl in the picture will be three years older by the time she’s eating second generation veggies. In this day and age…three years of political chaos, complete global technology stoppage, food shortages and meltdown? Don’t forget that someone will need to lock and load and stand vigilant guard over the victory garden to watch the plants grow and protect them from the looters that weren’t as prepared as those with the seeds.
I’m all for home grown food, and what you are doing at home is absolutely excellent! I just think selling the concept of “survival seeds” to utilize when SHTF is a scam and is completely preying on people’s fears.