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What are 'heirloom seeds' and where is the best place to get them?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 15740069:MV81Mzk3NzhfMzY0OTIwMDJfQjRBRjgzRDk=] Heirloom seeds are Genetically stable Land-races. What that means is they are strains of a plant that express certain traits and these traits are homogenous. So all of the seeds that come from the next generation will always have the same traits. They are a Stable Variety. A hybrid is when you take two stable variety's, two land-races and you breed them together. When you cross breed them like this you end up with a gene pool that has a blending of both traits. But, the next generation is NOT blended. It starts to drift between the mother parents traits and the father parents traits. You end up with seeds that have to much genetic variance. [/quote]
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I am getting my preparations together as best as I can.
What are heirloom seeds? Where is the best place(online or local store) to get them?
I am getting my shorter-term SHTF food stores and other preps together, but am just starting my preps for longer-term TEOTWAWKI.
I can garden as I have helped others do so in the past and am learning about it and getting tools. It looks like the shit is going to end the fan starting hard in mid-2008, and we are going to need to be ready to plant and hunt in 2009.
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