Gardening takes a lot of planning, but in order to keep your crop thriving, you should check out the below tips. Learn how to produce your own seeds for any survival situation.

At the beginning of the growing season most gardeners simply head to their nearest garden center and pick up whatever seed packets that are being displayed on the shelf that year, or they skip the seeds and their germination altogether by purchasing seedlings and transplanting those directly into their garden.

This works well during “good times” when you can still rely on going back and getting new seed for planting each year, if you’re thinking in terms of long-term survival or saving your own seed from year to year, then you need to consider buying and stockpiling Non-Hybrid (Heirloom) vegetable seeds.

Non-Hybrid or Open-Pollinated seeds allow the gardener to collect seeds from a crop for future planting.
Some plant species, such as corn, okra, and spinach for example must “cross-pollinate” each year to remain strong and to be productive. Constant inbreeding of cross-pollinating plans, even if they are of the non-hybrid variety will result in weak, non-productive plans after the first couple of years. The solution to this problem is to simply buy enough seed to last several years, and store in optimal conditions to ensure germination, or buy several different Non-Hybrid, Non-GMO varieties and cross-pollinate each year.

Self-pollinating plant species such as bean, pepper, tomato, eggplant, garlic and pea can be grown and the seeds saved year-after-year with little or no genetic change in growth, health or overall production. Allowing you to continually feed your family, now and during hard-times.

An additional benefit to this knowledge is that you can produce your own seeds even if you aren't in a survival situation. If you are a homesteader, or simply a thrifty person, having this knowledge will save you a lot of money in the long run, as you won't be running to the stores year after year to buy seed or seedlings for your garden plot. Plus, you have the added benefit of getting seeds from your strongest crops to produce better yields year after year.

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