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29/08/2023

A SEED BANK IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY

I think, with all the events that are happening in our country and the world, that having a Seed Bank handy, that could help Feed Your Family if needed, would help you sleep much better at night. That's why we get home insurance, car insurance, boat insurance and life insurance. We get them for Piece Of Mind, and Just In Case.

HEIRLOOM, Open-Pollinated plant varieties are your best bet for a successful personal Seed Bank. Choosing your best plants and practicing proper Seed-Saving methods gives you to a free, self-perpetuating garden year after year. Saving seed also means you can share Seeds with Family and Friends; A Gift That Keeps On Giving..

A personal Seed Bank has you saving seed for the coming season’s planting, but you also bank seed for longer storage, just in case. What that “just in case” might be varies. Some people have created a personal seed bank as insurance against crop failures. Others believe a personal Seed Bank is necessary in the event of a partial (or total) societal collapse. Many people just like the idea of being Sustainable and Self Sufficient.

You have to be able to bring food back in. And if there’s no way to get food from a grocery store and the government’s hands are tied, then what are you going to do? You need to be able to have a Garden that will take care of you and your family’s nutritional needs for many years to come. (If Need Be) We are in a very uncertain time in our Countries history now, and we need to Be Prepared.

You start this by having the seeds that you need to raise for your Preparedness Garden - and you need to have enough of them to plant a few acres’ worth of food. This means that you need to have the kinds of seeds that have the ability to reproduce themselves.

They’ll keep on producing for you. And you also want to look for seeds that haven’t been modified. When you plant seeds from a seed bank, you can guarantee that you’ll have food year after year - regardless of what’s going on in the rest of the world.

By using seeds from the foods you grow (and replanting those once your crops come in), you’ll ensure that your food supply will continually produce. You want to make sure that you look for seeds that offer a lot of produce return as well as ones that are high in nutrition and are long lasting.

PLANNING YOUR SEED BANK
The most important thing to remember when planning your personal Seed Bank is that you can only save and store only HEIRLOOM Open-Pollinated, non-hybridized, non-GMO Seeds. Why? Because genetically modified and hybridized seeds have been tinkered with by large corporations such as Monsanto, which don't want you to be able to save your own seeds. Why? Because they want you to have to buy seeds from them year after year. Hybridized or GMO seeds frequently have sterile first generation offspring (F1 is a designation you might have seen).

This means that while you’ll get viable plants from the seeds you buy, the seeds you save from those plants will likely be sterile. If they’re not sterile, they’ll produce offspring that are so unlike the parents with such a wide variety of characteristics that they will be a disappointment and not useful. Only buy HEIRLOOM, Open-Pollinated Seeds from trusted sources.

The SECOND THING to decide when planning a Seed Bank is what kinds of seed you want to save. The best seeds to save are from fruits and vegetables you enjoy eating the most, but experience comes into play, too. If you’re a beginning seed saver, to start it’s best to bank seeds that require the lowest skill set. This way you can focus your first growing season on learning seed saving techniques and still have viable, usable seed banked in preparation for the following growing season, at which time you’ll expand your skill. The easiest seeds to save and bank are Self Pollinated Seeds (see below for more info on this).

The THIRD THING to decide when planning a Seed Bank is what seeds would be best to save. This can vary greatly depending upon the reason why you are choosing to create a personal Seed Bank. If you’re banking seed as insurance against a crop failure in your garden or to be more Self-Sufficient, then banking what you like is the best option. If you’re banking seed as insurance against a societal collapse, then you’ll need to bank a wider variety of seeds and include many types that you may not have ever grown before, including grains.

Be advised, though, that in these cases it is a good idea to get some experience growing these seeds ahead of time; your seed bank will be useless if you don’t know how to grow the seeds you have. Ready-to-order Seed Banks, or Seed Packages, are great options until you have a chance to store your own varieties.

Here at THE SEED GUY, our 60 Variety Heirloom Seed Pkg is Small Farm Grown, Non GMO, has 34,000 Seeds total, Fresh from the New Harvest, and contains 49 vegetable varieties and 11 herb varieties-- SALE Pricing Now at $79. All Seed packets are Full Size Packets.

They are individually packaged in 2 x 3 and 2.5 x 3 thick see thru Food Grade Ziplock Bags, and then put in a large 10 x 14 silver mylar bag. You can use your Home Iron, put on high heat setting, and then run across top of mylar bag to seal. Sealed in the mylar bag, they will last and stay higher germination for 5 - 7 years in your refrigerator or for up to 10 years in your freezer.

You can see the Seed varieties included, and Order this Seed package on our website at https://theseedguy.net/seed-packages/50-60-variety-heirloom-seed-package.html ;

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29/08/2023

Bugs are often considered foes in the garden and landscape. But they can also be gifts to the garden, providing natural control of damaging insects and organisms, pollinating our plants, and providing food for birds and other animals❕ The first step in doing this is to figure out if the bugs you are seeing are really a threat. Try to make a proper identification of any insect you see. Help in doing so is available in books and online and through diagnostic services and the use of other local experts in your area 📒

How to create a balance of good and bad garden pests 🐞🐛🐌:

📌 Give the good guys plenty of help by making sure you have lots of woody plants (trees and shrubs) in the garden, which tend to increase biodiversity
📌Remove as many invasive trash plants as possible and replace these with plants that provide food and nectar to insects and birds
📌Use plants that are naturally resistant to pests

https://southernlivingplants.com/planting-care/good-bugs-bad-bugs/

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Soil retention is the ability of soil to retain water when needed by your various crops, flowers, fruit and other plants so that it can be used for their cultivation. In the otherwise dry, hot and sunny environment, good water retention is particularly important.

13/06/2023

The Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees. In the 14th century, the extraordinary daisugi technique was born in Japan. Indeed, the daisugi provide that these trees will be planted for future generations and not be cut down but pruned as if they were giant bonsai trees; by applying this technique to cedars, the wood that can be obtained is uniform, straight and without knots, practically perfect for construction. A pruning as a rule of art that allows the tree to grow and germinate while using its wood, without ever cutting it down.
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10/06/2023

KNOW YOUR SOILS

There are 5 different soil types that gardeners and growers usually work with. All five are a combination of just three types of weathered rock particles that make up the soil: sand, silt, and clay. How these three particles are combined defines your soil’s type — how it feels to the touch, how it holds water, and how it’s managed, among other things.

SANDY SOIL

Sandy soil has the largest particles among the different soil types. It’s dry and gritty to the touch, and because the particles have huge spaces between them, it can’t hold on to water.
Water drains rapidly, straight through to places where the roots, particularly those of seedlings, cannot reach. Plants don’t have a chance of using the nutrients in sandy soil more efficiently as they’re swiftly carried away by the runoff.
Testing what type of soil you’re working with involves moistening the soil and rolling it into a ball to check the predominating soil particle.
When you roll the slightly wet sandy soil in your palms, no ball should be formed and it crumbles through your fingers easily.

SILTY SOIL

Silty soil has much smaller particles than sandy soil so it’s smooth to the touch. When moistened, it’s soapy slick. When you roll it between your fingers, dirt is left on your skin.
Silty soil retains water longer, but it can’t hold on to as much nutrients as you’d want it to though it’s fairly fertile. Due to its moisture-retentive quality, silty soil is cold and drains poorly.
Silty soil can also easily compact, so avoid trampling on it when working your garden. It can become poorly aerated, too.

CLAY SOIL

Clay soil has the smallest particles among the three so it has good water storage qualities. It’s sticky to the touch when wet, but smooth when dry.
Due to the tiny size of its particles and its tendency to settle together, little air passes through its spaces. Because it’s also slower to drain, it has a tighter hold on plant nutrients. Clay soil is thus rich in plant food for better growth.
Clay soil is cold and in the spring, takes time to warm since the water within also has to warm up. The downside is that clay soil could be very heavy to work with when it gets dry.
Especially during the summer months, it could turn hard and compact, making it difficult to turn. (When clay soil is worked while it’s too wet though, it’s prone to damage).
If moistened soil feels sticky, rolls up easily, and forms into a ball or sausage-like shape, then you’ve got yourself clay.

PEATY SOIL

Peaty soil is dark brown or black in color, soft, easily compressed due to its high water content, and rich in organic matter. Peat soil started forming over 9,000 years ago, with the rapid melting of glaciers. This rapid melt drowned plants quickly and died in the process.
Their decay was so slow underwater that it led to the accumulation of organic area in a concentrated spot.
Although peat soil tends to be heavily saturated with water, once drained, it turns into a good growing medium. In the summer though, peat could be very dry and become a fire hazard. (I kid you not – peat is the precursor of coal.) The most desirable quality of peat soil, however, is in its ability to hold water in during the dry months and its capacity to protect the roots from damage during very wet months.
Peat contains acidic water, but growers use it to regulate soil chemistry or pH levels as well as an agent of disease control for the soil.
When wet peat soil is rolled, you won’t form a ball. It’s spongy to the touch and when squeezed, water could be forced out.

SALINE SOIL

The soil in extremely dry regions is usually brackish because of its high salt content. Known as saline soil, it can cause damage to and stall plant growth, impede germination, and cause difficulties in irrigation.
The salinity is due to the buildup of soluble salts in the rhizosphere – high salt contents prevent water uptake by plants, leading to drought stress.It’s easy enough to test if you have saline soil. You’ll probably see a white layer coating the surface of the soil, your plants are growing poorly, and they’re suffering from leaf e burn, especially on young leaves.

LOAM SOIL

The type of soil that gardens and gardeners love is loamy soil. It contains a balance of all three soil materials – silt, sand and clay – plus humus. It has a higher pH and calcium levels because of its previous organic matter content.Loam is dark in colour and is mealy – soft, dry and crumbly – in your hands. It has a tight hold on water and plant food but it drains well, and air moves freely between soil particles down to the roots.
The feel test for loam yields a smooth, partly gritty, partly sticky ball that crumbles easily.Although loamy soil is the ideal material to work with, don’t despair if you don’t have it in your garden. That’s because soil will always favour one particles size over the two others.
Then again, there are many ways to condition your soil – adding beneficial soil inoculants, covering your soil with compost, or simply spraying leaves and soil with compost tea.
Source:Wildlife & Environmental Conservation Society of Zambia
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07/06/2023

THE 3 TYPES OF PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE..

1. The Leaf people
2. The Branch people
3. The Root people

LEAF PEOPLE:
These are people who come into your life just for a season. You can't depend on them because they are weak. They only come to take what they want, but if the wind comes they will leave.
You need to be careful of these people because they love you when things are okay, but when the wind comes they will leave you 🥺

BRANCH PEOPLE:
They are strong, but you need to be careful with them too. They break away when life becomes tough and they can't handle too much weight. They may stay with you in some seasons, but they will go when it becomes harder 😢

ROOT PEOPLE: These people are very important because they don't do things to be seen. They are supportive even if you go through a difficult time they will water you and they are not moved by your position they just love you like that ...

It's not all people you meet or are your friends, that will stay with you.
Only the root type of people will stay no matter the season 👏☺️

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