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Post by painteddaisy on Mar 24, 2006 7:31:20 GMT -5
I could have put this in the gardening or debate section I suppose, but I figured my question has more to do with Self Sufficiency so here it be!
I've been in a bit of a panic to stock up on gardening seed for the last little while, you know in case TSHTF. Where I live, my growing season isn't long enough for me to produce my own seed for things like cauliflower, carrot etc.
Has anyone else thought about doing this? Am I looney for doing it? If you are doing this, what types of seed do you recommend or foresee becoming scarce and highly sought after? Beans and squash and corn I can see, because they are easy to keep and very good staples, but I fear I'm forgetting something important!
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Post by Kathy on Mar 24, 2006 9:16:00 GMT -5
I'd be planting what we always called winter onions(perpetual onions is another name) & a bed of garlic. I'd also be stocking up on onion seeds.  Garlic & onions besides giving many bland foods a flavor boost have medicinal properties so they're doubly important to have available. You know, I live in an apartment in the city but even I have a stockpile of open pollinated, heirloom seeds.  I'm not sure what I expect to do with them or how I'll manage to get a garden planted but there was a deep need to know I had the beginnings of feeding myself if the SHTF. |
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Post by painteddaisy on Mar 24, 2006 9:37:30 GMT -5
Hmmm, onions I've never had much luck with, so I shall make that a special project this year. Gee, I never even thought about Garlic and I use it all the time. Thanks Kathy! |
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Post by antiquestuff on Mar 24, 2006 13:41:24 GMT -5
Wheat, peas, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, herbs/etc.
And open pollinated or else, you have nothing when you run out of the seeds. Some things can be grown in containers and moved in/out of the house if it gets cold too early.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2006 8:28:36 GMT -5
I have more seed ordered than usual. Yes, I'm stocking up.   Never do know what next gardening season is going to be like. Way things are going..may have to be chipped to buy seeds ;D I'm thinking about putting some seeds in a cave to keep them cool, and ready for use. tnborn |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2006 14:51:29 GMT -5
Yes I bought more seed than I need, and also save seeds from my garden. I plant heirlooms, so nobody will be knocking at my door for patent infringment.  If kept in proper conditions, many seeds can be kept 10 plus years and still grow. Never hurts to have extra. Kaza |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2006 9:01:48 GMT -5
I too am collecting seeds. Not only for what we like to eat but even adding the plants that we are not fond of but that grow here and are of value. What I mean by value is health, grow fast, long storage, multi use.
multi (livestock and humans)
small pumkins
peas
root veg. beets turnips carrots potatoes
health
herbs
onions garlic
horseradish (stuffy noses are cleared at our home with out drugs)
Beside the seeds I really need to get canning supplies. I wish that I could get a case a week and a box of lids a week.
I have about 300 pounds of grain seed stored and I honestly do not know how to harvest it if I needed to do so right. (but I have neighors that do But they do not have seed we might be able to work something out in a time of need ==I hope)
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Post by painteddaisy on Apr 5, 2006 11:15:14 GMT -5
That's one of my bigger concerns (grain). Where the heck does one grow animal feed on a one acre lot? |
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