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Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: Heirloom Seeds
If you’ve not been homesteading long or are just beginning, it may be tempting to go to your local farmer’s market and buy some of those nice, pest-resistant, hybrid plants that are supposedly easier to grow. After all, they are ‘made’ to be more user friendly right? Well, that depends.
They are often genetically modified plants (GMO) that have had artificial genes grafted into their make up to make them resist draught or blight or bugs. That’s why some tomatoes don’t really taste like a tomato. Not only that, but by being hybrids, they are sterile or infertile for next year’s seeds. The plant you grow this year will not produce seeds for next year’s garden. You get to go spend money again on another hybrid seed.
Heirloom seeds will give you seeds to use each year from the crops they grow. Eat them this year, dry and save some for next year. Repeat. Now that’s money in the bank!
Take a look at this place that offers heirloom seeds with fast, free shipping:
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Heirloom seeds by the lb.
We are planting only heirloom seeds this year and below is our starter list.
No hybrids and so all will produce seeds that reproduce thus starting out seed bank.
So, as the weather is cold and the mind is all that I can use to plant, here is our list for this year!
| 1 lb | Purple Majesty Potato | |
| 1 lb | Georgia Rattlesnake Watermelon | |
| 1 lb | Sugar Baby (Ice Box) Watermelon | |
| 1 lb | Pineapple Yellow Tomatoes | |
| 1lb | Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes | |
| 1lb | Cherokee Purple Tomatoes | |
| 1 lb | Delicious Red Tomatoes | |
| 1 lb | Big Rainbow Striped Tomatoes | |
| 1 lb | Yellow Plum Tomatoes | |
| 1 lb | Waltham Butternut Squash | |
| 1 lb | Zucchini Dark Green | |
| 1 lb | Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach | |
| 1 lb | Small Sugar Pie Pumkins | |
| 1 lb | Cushaw White Pumpkin | |
| 1 lb | Baby Bear Pumpkins | |
| 1 lb | Sugar Snap Pole Edible Pod | |
| 1 lb | Little Marvel Shelling Peas | |
| 1lb | Walla Walla Onions | |
| 1 lb | Red Burgundy Onions | |
| 1 lb | Hale’s Best Jumbo Muskmelon | |
| 1lb | Honey Dew, Green Melon | |
| 1lb | Parris White Cos Romain Lettuce | |
| 1 lb | Iceberg Lettuce | |
| 1 lb | Black Beauty Eggplant | |
| 1 lb | Spacemaster Bush Cucumbers | |
| 1 lb | Parisian Pickling Cucumbers | |
| 1 lb | Peaches & Cream – Mid (Se) Corn | |
| 1 lb | Peaches & Cream – Early (Su) Corn | |
| 1 lb | Golden Bantam (8 row) Corn | |
| 1 lb | Stowell’s Evergreen White Corn | |
| 1 lb | Healthmaster Carrots | |
| 1lb | Savoy Drumhead Perfection Green Cabbage | |
| 1 lb | Mammoth Red Rock red Cabbage | |
| 2 lbs | Long Island Improved Brussel Sprouts | |
| 1 lb | Green Goliath Broccoli | |
| 1lb | Blue Lake Bush Beans | |
| 2 lbs | Purple Viking Potato | |
| 2 lbs | Desiree Potato | |
| 2 lbs |
Caribe Potato
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| 1lb | Early Summer Yellow Crookneck Squash |
How does your garden grow?
Anyone else dreaming of spring?
Gotta get to plowing!
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