There are still plenty of seeds left in the stores around here, but most of them are hybrid.
Fortunately, We have enough heirlooms for this year and next, and we do save our seeds from what we grow each year. Plus any unused seeds from prior years.
Corn doesn’t do well after 2 years, but some things will do ok even as long as 5 years after the date on the envelope.
While hybrids are not ideal for seed saving, you will still get something from their seeds, if you save them. You might get something more like one of the “parents or grandparents” instead of the hybrid.
If hybrids were all I could get, I’d get them just in case.
Our grocery generally has one or two heirloom type tomatoes in the produce section or heirloom peppers - I generally save some of those seeds too, if we happen to buy them.
I didn’t have any tomatoes indoors this winter, so we sometimes picked up some romas or slicing tomatoes.
“There are still plenty of seeds left in the stores around here, but most of them are hybrid.”
Was at Farm & Fleet yesterday, and I noticed the same thing. Either they were ahead of the game and ordered more than last year, or people who gardened last year gave up already. I saw both hybrid and heirlooms available.
Though canning supplies are still spotty everywhere I’ve looked.
Go figure!
During the current Colonial pipeline shutdown and outage, we have to deal with the complexities of everyday life :
" Meanwhile, Michigan Governor Whitmer is attempting to close another pipeline that serves Northern states,
demonstrating that pipeline shutdowns are part of an engineered collapse of America’s industrial infrastructure."
"If this deliberate shutdown plan continues, many people will face famine this summer as America plunges into chaos and desperation.
It’s all by design, of course, as the radical Marxists who stole the election are working their way through a checklist to destroy America from within.
"As I discuss in today’s Situation Update podcast — which has a particularly doomsday ring to it — after experiencing the supply line shortages of 2020,
anyone who isn’t yet a prepper in 2021 is essentially committing themselves to death.
I ask the question, “How can everyone NOT be a prepper in 2021 after living through 2020?”
"Yet, amazingly, the oblivious masses have zero preparedness and still think, “things will all go back to normal” real soon now,
as soon as the vaccines save everybody."
(My Comment): Think about it, you know, the situation that we are currently experiencing with shortages and outages, and supply chain breakdowns.
What can you do for yourself and your family ?
Think about it now, logically; don't wait for the crisis to happen and then be forced to respond emotionally.
Overcome your natural "normalcy bias" and imagine possibilities, or probabilities.
Work out a scenario in your mind enough to think about how you would react in a sudden given situation.
OODA Loop : (Overcoming Normalcy Bias through a 4-step decision-making process ) :
(#1) Observe,
(#2) Orient,
(#3) Decide,
(#4) Act.
I’m buying as many heirloom as I can, even if I’m not planting them this year...