It’s Not Just Toilet Paper, Seed Shortages Spread As Locked-Down Americans Turn To Growing Their Own Food

Alt News ^ | 4-19-2020

[blam]

It's Always Something. (IAS)

[Ciaphas Cain]

First it's teaching their own children and now it's growing their own food.

Coronavirus has become quite the catalyst for self-sufficiency. Are the libs SURE they want to keep this going?

[Sacajaweau]

I ordered my seeds in the fall. Have plenty. We have a community garden to play in...it’s great cuz there’s only a few of us.

[virgil]

I went to the store yesterday, and there were plenty of seeds everywhere I went.

[farming pharmer]

Serious market gardners and vegetable farmers order their seeds sometime in February.

BTW, Try Johnny's Selected Seeds . That's where I get a lot of my stuff from.

[Sacajaweau]

I was at Lowes...lotsa packets of seeds. Walmart usually has a huge selection. Bought my onion bulbs a month ago...100 for $3. Planted last week.

[HighSierra5]

Seeds are one of the first things I thought of. I’ve always wanted to get some chickens but my wife says no. So I said if I brought some chicks home she’d fall in love with them. I love the look on my wife’s face.

[Sacajaweau]

Grow your own food...but here in NYS....the State feeds your children....and you get food stamps, too.

We're up to 3 meals a day in our area...and snacks, too.

[yarddog]

My Daughter and family have moved to a remote cabin they own.

She planted a small garden in their flower bed. Tomatoes, peppers and basil. I suggested she also add a couple of stalks of okra.

[Old Yeller]

I still can’t find yeast. I found toilet paper though.

[4yearlurker]

I see plenty of seed packs here in SW Pennsylvania. I'm going to make a few more raised bed boxes and make my daughter a few and Ill show her and the granddaughters how to plant.

[9YearLurker]

After Gov. Halfwit’s move, all the supply chain disruptions, and threats that we’ll be in lockdown until a first-ever successful vaccine for a coronavirus is conjured, what’s to be expected?

[tflabo]

Not related to the ‘panicking doomsayers’ but those who grow veggies or herbs can harvest seeds in the Fall for the next season’s planting. Let a few stems bolt and the seed pods fully mature. Store in a cool, dry place and presto- free seeds. Tomato seeds are a bit trickier tho. I’d have a little greenhouse too if I lived on larger property.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So THAT’S Whitmer’s game. Hold back every seed in Michigan and then sell them on Ebay.

[jmcenanly]

I wonder if people are going to start attempting to propagating vegetables from cuttings? It seems like something that you could teach a child to do in grade school. You don't have to be the greatest botanist on the planet to do this.

[KosmicKitty]

Johnny’s Selected Seeds - no orders for home gardeners until April 28. Same thing at High Mowing

I forgot to order broccoli seeds. Now I can’ find them anywhere

[blam]

"Not related to the ‘panicking doomsayers’ but those who grow veggies or herbs can harvest seeds in the Fall for the next season’s planting. Let a few stems bolt and the seed pods fully mature. Store in a cool, dry place and presto- free seeds. Tomato seeds are a bit trickier tho.

Are there really people who don't know this already?

[RegulatorCountry]

There’s at least one FReeper who thought you had to buy soil to grow a garden and argued strenuously that it wasn’t cost effective because of that. So, I’d say yes. Especially city dwellers and even moreso in dry climates.

[Mercat]

Seed vault

[windowdude]

We put in an online order fairly early on in this thing and it was cancelled by Amazon.