What the...?

[castanea]

You all are forgetting, these special seeds grow "nutrient dense" food, not just regular food.

And, you can bury their seeds "to avoid confiscation".

[steev]

I guess the seeds being vacuum-packed in their special foil pouches does mean that the plastic burial canister doesn't violate the "no plastic or paper packaging" rule.

I will admit that thinking about this before reading the full offer, I was expecting a bucket of wheat and a couple ounces of ammonium sulfate; it's so very much more than that! Any doubts I had were overcome by the Bible quote.

[Joseph Lofthouse]

I started picking green beans with my grandpa when I was about 5 years old. Ever since then, their fuzzy skins have made my skin crawl. (Leaves too.) I like dual purpose beans: I can harvest the seeds without touching those creepy pods. If I ever eat a snap bean it's gotta be cooked for about an hour, so that it can be soft enough to not feel the fuzz. At least in my garden, I don't yet have a good dual purpose bean. I eat a few snap beans as dry beans every year, but they're not optimized.

[oxbowfarm]

It's really rather an elegant scam. You are selling a product to a clientele who is

• totally uneducated customer in a state of anxiety
  
  
• Unlikely to actually use the product
  
  
• The product is designed to be used post-collapse, so when the customer finds out the product is crap the Better Business Bureau etc are irrelevant.
  

The Survival Gardens are basically a silly overpriced security blanket. They give silly people a perceived feeling of having done something to protect themselves from a threat that doesn't involve actually doing something other than spending money and maybe digging a hole in the backyard.

There's a whole range of other products they could try selling along a similar line,

• Zombie Repellent Ointment-100% Guaranteed!
  
• Alien Mind Control Beam Blocker Hat!
  
• Ultrasonic Plug-in Leprechaun and Pixie Repeller
  

[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

Feb 4, 2013 5:48:06 GMT -5 oxbowfarm said:

It's really rather an elegant scam. You are selling a product to a clientele who is

• totally uneducated customer in a state of anxiety
  
  
• Unlikely to actually use the product
  
  
• The product is designed to be used post-collapse, so when the customer finds out the product is crap the Better Business Bureau etc are irrelevant.
  

The Survival Gardens are basically a silly overpriced security blanket. They give silly people a perceived feeling of having done something to protect themselves from a threat that doesn't involve actually doing something other than spending money and maybe digging a hole in the backyard.

There's a whole range of other products they could try selling along a similar line,

• Zombie Repellent Ointment-100% Guaranteed!
  
• Alien Mind Control Beam Blocker Hat!
  
• Ultrasonic Plug-in Leprechaun and Pixie Repeller
  

Hey, those ultrasonic leprechaun repellers really do work. I haven't seen a leprechaun since i started using mine. They have sensitive ears. If your a cheapskate a dog whistle would probably work though. Lol.

[oxbowfarm]

I like the zombie one the best, you can offer a 100% money back guarantee. If a zombie eats your brain while you are using the product you will receive a full refund ( upon personal application and proof of purchase).

[Walk]

We plant our "survival garden" every year. We are heavy on the dry beans and peas, corn, squash, root crops, and solanacea, with smaller amounts of everything else, including eggplant and green beans ;>). Maybe it would be better to get folks to start planting their own survival gardens now instead of buying and burying the seed cache. That way, there will be something for them to eat when TSHTF instead of them having to come scavange from our industrious inclinations when their buried seed either doesn't germinate, or leaves them waiting for months for a harvest.

[12540dumont]

And when the zombie eats your brain, only the pixies will know where you buried the seeds.

[circumspice]

What shocked me the most about that ad was how it pandered to paranoia. I was browsing through M.E.N. archives & saw it. I was gobsmacked, to say the least.

[synergy]

Gardening is such a learning curve , well, so I am finding. I cannot fathom sitting there with seeds thinking you are set to supply your own food to feed your family in crisis conditions no less.

[castanea]

It's a massive learning curve. Every year I learn tons of new things, yet every year I learn that I still have even more to learn.

[oxbowfarm]

No, NO NO! All you need is a bottle of "Nitro Seed Starter Solution" absolutely free of charge. What this amazing product does is allow you to jump start your crop by simply soaking your seeds in this solution for a few seconds before you plant. When the Nitro soaked seeds hit the ground... it's over. The seeds grow like crazy!

Tremble before their science! The mysteries of agriculture have been crushed by the mighty intelect of Dr. Huizenga and his Junior Botanist Lackeys!

[steev]

I hope all know that I enjoy a good joke, but really, sometimes I worry about the prevalence of stupid, ignorant, and paranoid people, as well as those who pander to and exploit them. So often I prefer less mendacious species than Homo sapiens. Who said we are "the Crown of Creation"? Oh! That would be us; no little bit self-congratulatory, that.

[circumspice]

Now you did it steev!!! I'm gonna slap on my alien mind control blocker helm & track you down!!! That Jefferson Airplane song is now stuck in my mind!!! <--- obscenities

[steev]

I shall escape up the stairway to heaven with my white rabbit, like a wild thing.