We do have a Dollar Store here I will have to check there next week when I’m off again.
I guess we could horde seeds which may become more valuable than gold when times get really tough.
How long do seeds last in the package?
I read something today (either on a seed site or seed package, don’t remember) that said vegetable seeds were good for 5 years.
* Vegetable and flower seeds may be kept for one year without appreciable decrease in germination.
* Storage may be extended to 10 or more years under proper conditions.
* Seed moisture and storage temperature are the most important factors in determining how long seed can be stored.
* The drier the seeds are, the longer they will store.
Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds (Colorado State University)
I would be really careful about using heat to dry them though. Just a bit too hot and poof.....
To give you an idea how long they will store, just consider that they have found viable wheat and flax seeds in the pyramids in Egypt. I store mine in a mason jar vacuum sealed (using vacuum pump not heat processed) and store them in a second fridge.
I also use the used lids for dried beans, peas, rice, etc. and I also use those second hand lids for water (I always finish filling my pressure cooker with jars of water - keeps them clean and sterile inside and gives me a stock of sterilized drinking water in an emergency. Yes, I pretty much keep all my jars full - 'An empty jar saves nothing.')
I guess we could horde seeds which may become more valuable than gold when times get really tough.<<<
People are hoarding seeds, and I consider it to be a good idea.
If kept cool and dry, they last 5 to 10 years, you won’t get a 100% germination, as they age, but I have used 10 year old seeds.
They have found some of the grains from the time of Christ that will still grow.
With the major seed companies owned by the likes of Soros and few private owners, they are definitely an item that we could not afford to buy, or find to buy.
Plus in a world war, all the young men are in the military and there is no one to grow the seeds, there were great shortages of seeds during WW2.
In WW2, we shipped cabbage seeds to Russia by the ton and little was for sale here, this from a Gov publication about seeds in the war years.