Seed and Gardening.... This is really an important subject. First lets talk about seed.
Seed use to be a simple thing. You would put a seed into the ground and pretty soon a plant would grow and not long after that, the associated fruit would come onto the plant.
Well, wouldn't you know it, in our complex and overly complicated world of today seed is not longer that simple. Call me suspicious, jaded or cynical but it is my opinion that over many years large corporations involved in agriculture such as Monsanto have researched and ultimately manipulated seed at the genetic level. My doing so, Monsanto and others have actually changed the molecular structure of seed today rendering a potentially disasterous result.
The way seed worked in mother nature was that any seed would produce a fruit and then that fruit would reproduce by creating it's own seed for future plantings. An example will help. If I plant an apple tree seed, an apple tree will sprout, grow and one day produce apples. Those apples will have new apple seed in them. If I take some of those apple seed and dry them out and plant them, then new apple trees will come up keeping the cycle going.
Modern seed companies have severed that operation! Seed companies have genetically altered and manipulated seed so that they want reproduce. These new seeds are called hybrid seeds. Let's take cotton for example. If I am a cotton farmer and I buy this years spring planting of cotton seed, prepare my fields for planting and plant all my acres of cotton, then the cotton plants sprout, grow and produce.... in the fall I will be picking cotton. In that cotton, their will be new cotton seeds but during the growing of this cotton crop, the cotton plants did not genetically reporduce and consequently, the seeds are no good. The seed from this hybrid cotton, if planted, would not germinate, sprout and grow new plants!
Now I have gone through all of that to say and explain that now days when buying seed, we have to make sure we are buying none hybrid seed. We must make sure we are planting seed that HAVE NOT BEEN GENETICALLY MODIFIED! This is so very vital. At the time of this writing, it is only speculation that our world will ever reach the point we are predicting which would be an "Armageddon" level of existance. Should we find ourselves at that place some day, we will be beyond a point in time we can go somewhere and get seed. If what we plant does not produce our following years crops, then our existance will still be in jeopardy as we want be able to plant or produce our 2nd years food. And then the 3rd, 4th and so on until we rebuild our blessed country.
Next subject is "GARDENING".
