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15341 FERMENT your tomato seeds Re: Massive U.S. food shortage coming – get a backup supply ready RIGHT NOW
   DE, Do the following to save your heirloom tomato seeds. Take on... 		hydro_gen   6TH POPE   08 Apr 2021
 7:01 PM
15313 Re: Massive U.S. food shortage coming – get a backup supply ready RIGHT NOW
   Maybe you are just testing out the cooling capacity of your freezer???... 		micro   6TH POPE   08 Apr 2021
 4:46 PM

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Re: Massive U.S. food shortage coming – get a backup supply ready RIGHT NOW

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Thu, 08 Apr 21 4:34 PM
Msg. 15312 of 53303
(This msg. is a reply to 15297 by capt_nemo)
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Nemo:

Re: “Prepper sites have been warning Americans for years, and the toilet paper panic was just a minor foreshadowing of a grim future for the food supply”My truck had a recall on its air bags so we had to go into 'The Big City' this morning. While waiting, we shopped at Wal-mart and bought toilet paper for the first time since January '20. We aren't out, but we've used half of our T.P. and it's time to start restocking. I also headed over to the garden section and picked up seed for carrots, variety hot peppers and two types of cucumbers. So getting home and seeing your post on those same topics is a pretty good coincidence!

I've had seed growing indoors since early April. It seems I started my tomatoes too early since they're ready to go in the ground now but the weather won't be right until May. It's all part of learning.

For the first time, I am growing every type of heirloom tomato I've got. Most were prepped for 2019 so I can't count on their seeds lasting much longer:

• Ace 55
• Azoychka
• Beefsteak Red
• Big Rainbow
• Black Krim
• Brandywine Red
• Cherokee Purple
• Chocolate Stripes
• Floradade
• Golden Jubilee
• Marion
• Purple Calabash
• Red Cherry Large
• Rutgers
• Striped Stuffer
• Tigerella
• A different large cherry tomato of unknown variety
• Yellow Pear

and

• Burpee Honeycomb Hybrid (I don't know if I can harvest their seeds, but I'm going to try.)

When I moved to NH in 2018, I thawed a tomato I'd had in the freezer for three years and extracted its seeds. They grew like champs and I was delighted. No prep work needed - just throw a few tomatoes in the freezer! Last year, I froze several whole tomatoes of various types and also froze a jar filled with wet seed. NONE of them germinated when I planted them this year. I did a little reading and found I was very lucky that first time. Tomato seeds can be frozen but only grow [reliably] if they've first been dried. Okay. It's a good lesson. I don't know why I'd ever want to freeze tomato seeds again. When they've been dried, tomato seeds usually last several years even without freezing.


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