Revised Nov. 18, 2009

Non-Hybrid Seed Pack

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Best Prices now sells a monster 1.2 pound package of non-hybrid, open pollinated (heirloom)seeds with a 6-7 day shipping time. We've seen nothing like it elsewhere.  (Scroll down to see what's in it.)

How long will seeds store?

Most companies sell pitiful #10 (that's Number 10, not 10 pounds!) can of seeds that contains envelopes of seeds (typically 16-20 varieties of vegetables) like you'd find in any garden store. You've got ONE chance to plant a thriving garden. If it doesn't make it, you'll get awfully hungry . . . . God forbid that you have an early freeze or a drought.  That's why you want to get BOTH non-hybrid (heirloom) seeds AND a supply of storable foods.

One other thing:  Seeds are living things.  They need air to "breathe."  When they're vacuum packed in a can, they die!  WE'VE HAD THIS HAPPEN TO US and we've had the same reports from others.  We urge you NOT to buy canned seeds.

So, we went looking for a more realistic non-hybrid seed solution.   Seed Planting Guide
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Be prepared for the coming food shortage.

Maybe before I go any further, I should explain hybrid seeds. God made all seeds non-hybrid, originally. Man did the hybridizing, beginning with an Austrian Catholic monk, Gregor Mendel, in the mid-1800s, who crossed bean plant varieties to produce a better plant. A hybrid plant, ideally, takes on the "best" characteristics of its "parents". For example, by crossing a tomato plant that's resistant to fusarium wilt with one that produces fruit in extreme heat, you get the best of both: Disease and heat resistance. But it might be ugly as sin.

Not a bad idea. But, because most hybrids are produced for grocery store sales these days, foods have to be PRETTY, not just functional. They want foods that have eye appeal, so more of us spoiled Americans will buy them (instead of anything with a blemish. Strange, huh? A movie starlet looks better with a "beauty mark" [mole/blemish] on her face . . . but don't you dare let a mark be on a tomato I buy!). Producers, of course, want plants that produce more fruits/ vegetables. So, the hybridizers work at crossing varieties that are pretty, productive and disease resistant.

Comparing quantities: Store-bought hybrid seeds vs. our non-hybrid seeds.

When you plant hybrid seeds, you get a really nice, disease-resistant plant with beautiful fruits. The problem is that the seeds of the hybrid (unless seeds have been bred out, as in some varieties of watermelon, for example) will either not germinate at all, or will revert to produce the character-istics of the individual parent plants (one, perhaps, a scrawny, ugly plant with inedible fruit that'll live through anything, and the other, a plant producing gorgeous fruit that dies if you so much as sneeze near it.). So, storing hybrid (grocery store/garden shop/hardware store bought) seeds is risky. You have no idea if the harvested seeds will produce edible fruit/vegetables the following year.

Fortunately, select seed producers have continued to grow plants which produce non-hybrid seeds.

We provide you enough seed to grow extra crops to feed those around you, or enough to give away to those in need whom you might wish to help, or enough to go into a share cropping business--an arrangement wherein you provide the seed in return for a percentage of the crop. There's enough seed for a crop failure due to gardening inexperience. You can give it another go.

Be prepared for the coming food shortage.

Here's what's in the current 30 variety, 1.2 pound, non-hybrid seed package:

01. Slenderette Bush Beans or Contender Bush Beans, 2 oz
02. Golden Wax Beans, 2 oz
03. Green Arrow Peas or Early Frosty Peas, 2 oz
04. Golden Bantam Sweet Corn, 2 oz
05. Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans, 2 oz
06. Detroit Dark Red Beets, 1/8 oz
07. Nantes Coreless Carrots, 1/8 oz
08. Marketmore 76 Cucumber, 1/8 oz
09. Cherry Belle Radish, 1/8 oz
10. Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach, 1/8 oz
11. Waltham 29 Broccoli, 1/8 oz
12. Copenhagen Market Early Cabbage, 1/8 oz
13. Hales Best Jumbo Cantaloupe, 1/8 oz
14. Green Flesh Honey Dew Melon, 1/8 oz
15. Iceberg Head Lettuce, 1/8 oz
16. Super Sioux Heirloom Tomato or Rutgers Heirloom Tomato, 1/2 gram
17. Beafsteak Tomato, 1/2 gram
18. Sugar Pie Pumpkin, 1/8 oz
19. Golden Zucchini, 1/8 oz
20. Crimson Sweet Watermelon, 1/8 oz
21. Bouquet Dill, 1/8 oz
22. California Wonder Bell Peppers or Yolo Wonder Bell Peppers, 1/8 oz
23. National Pickling Cucumber, 1/8 oz
24. Prizehead Leaf Lettuce or Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce, 1/8 oz
25. Country Gentlemen Shoepeg White Sweet Corn, 2 oz
26. Jalapeno Hot Peppers (SHU = 4,500), 1/8 oz
27. Long Island Improved Brussels Sprouts, 1/8 oz
28. Tennessee Red Valencia Peanuts, 2 oz
29. Heirloom Navy (White) Beans, 2 oz
30. Heirloom Pinto Beans, 2 oz

Optional (add only $7.20 for both - BP15):
31. Long Red Cayenne Hot Peppers (SHU = 40,000) (BP11) 1/8 oz, add $1.80
32. Habanero Orange Hot Peppers (SHU = 280,000) (BP09) 1/8 oz, add $5.70

Total 30 varieties, gross weight 1.2 pound.                  Go to our Seed Planting Guide
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Package price: $59.99US $50.99 sale price! plus shipping by UPS. (Please call for shipping or do a test order on our shopping cart.) Gross shipping weight is 2 pounds.

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