Start a Survival Garden With Heirloom Seeds

Starting a survival garden will not just save you money in the long run but would also be extremely important if there was a disaster in which the stores lacked food. Consuming healthy is all the rage these days.

In grocery stores you will see the routine fruits and vegetables then you have the organic ones. I feel that the only way to really understand what is really organic or not is if you plant the food or kill the animal yourself. So, starting a survival garden with treasure seeds is the very best way to really understand what fruits and vegetables you are getting, while also having a renewable and trustworthy food source.

About Heirloom Seeds

The next question to answer is: what are heirloom seeds? Treasure seeds, also called heritage seeds, are seeds that are usually 50 years old and older. These heirloom seeds are valuable for a few different factors. One factor is that the vegetables taste far better than what you purchase the store. Also, there is a much bigger selection of vegetables and fruits than what can be found at the supermarket and, the reason that they are popular among preppers or survivalists, they produce seeds that can be collected and used in the next planting season.

If you are going to start a survival garden able sufficient to produce vegetables and fruits long after a disaster, you will want a garden that produces a variety of tasty fruit and vegetables. At the supermarket, the range of items you will find is quite small. Generally you will just find 1 type of each vegetable that really limits the tastes you will get. The choice of heirloom seeds for your survival garden is nearly ludicrous. You can typically find 30 - 50 different types of each vegetable and fruit. If you don't like orange carrots, you can try a white or yellow carrot. Having a range is constantly great, but much more so when a disaster strikes and no food is left in the supermarket.

The produce that originates from your survival garden will also taste better than what you generally buy. The produce will most likely not look the very same and can even have a different shape than what you might think of for a specific vegetable. The flavor can also be rather different but will offer you different flavors to keep you from getting tired with what you grow.

The most important element of your survival garden is that it should be sustainable. The basic seed packets you can buy are hybrid seeds. Hybrid seeds have been genetically customized to offer much bigger harvests that look more uniform and can produce larger veggies. The disadvantage to these seeds is that the majority of the harvest does not produce more seeds, and/or the seeds will not produce vegetables if planted. A heirloom seed may not produce the biggest harvest, but they are more valuable than a hybrid harvest as the seeds can be conserved the next year to replant your crop.

As you can see, with a survival garden, heirloom seeds would be compulsory if you plan to have crops each and every single year. Heirloom seeds can really lead to self-sufficiency and can even cause profit by selling a few of your harvests and/or the seeds. When there is a catastrophe, and the primary source of commerce is the barter system, your survival garden might save your life and allow you to stockpile on supplies. The price of heirloom seeds might be a little higher than standard seeds, but the advantages are so great that there is no factor these seeds need to not be added to your survival stockpile.

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