Heirloom Seeds

Heirloom seeds are those seeds that will faithfully reproduce after their own genetic kind. However, most seeds that are sold for vegetable gardening are hybrid seeds that have been genetically-modified to produce a plant with larger fruits, resistance to disease or bugs, etc.

While that may sound good on the one hand, what most people don’t realize is that hybrid seeds can be a threat to their very existence in a long-term survival situation. The problem is that the seeds from the fruits or vegetable produced by hybrid seeds cannot be saved and counted on to reproduce the following year a plant similar to the parent plant.

What this means is that in a survival situation if all you have are hybrid seeds you could find yourself starving. While those hybrid seeds that you’ve bought from those pretty seed catalogues might produce a fantastic garden the first year, saving the seeds won’t do a lot of good the next year. Continue...