Heirloom seeds are a must for survival gardens!

After visiting a new store by the name of WindRider’s located in Forsyth Missouri, I purchased a couple of packets of heirloom seeds produced by a company named Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Heirloom seeds are great in that you buy them once and then are able to use seeds from succeeding generation to grow new crops. This is a great item to have in you survival garden arsenal.

The two packets contained a bell pepper variety called ‘Pepper Ozark Giant’ and a bush bean known as ‘Contender (Buff) Valentine’. The pepper is supposed to be quite large while the bush beans that are ‘earlier’ than most others on the market. Now, while it’s a bit late to be starting peppers from seed, I’m right in the perfect window for the beans. I’ll begin the pepper seeds in a 6 cell starter tray filled with 'Miracle Gro Potting Mix' while the beans are going to go into my new 4 x 4 foot raised bed which is still under construction. (I’ll be doing a post on how to build a ‘quickie raised bed’ in a future post).  My purpose in creating the new raised bed will be to show just how much produce you can get from such a small amount of space!