Seed varieties

Sanders · 07-07-2023, 04:39 PM

aviator · 07-07-2023, 09:33 PM

I always have basil and parsley growing, wife makes a great pesto. I have some of the sweetest cherry tomatoes I've ever tasted growing up, some girl who works with my son gave us some, her husband has a hydroponic farm in the backyard.

4thIDvet · 07-07-2023, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Sanders

Deep in the bowels of an icy mountain on an island above the Arctic Circle between Norway and the North Pole lies a resource of vital importance for the future of human*kind. It’s not coal, oil or precious minerals, but seeds.

The Global Seed Vault has been dubbed the “doomsday” vault, which conjures up an image of a reserve of seeds for use in case of an apocalyptic event or a global catastrophe. But it is the much smaller, localized destruction and threats facing gene banks all over the world that the vault was designed to protect against—and it’s why the vault was opened in February, when TIME visited.

https://time.com/doomsday-vault/

I for sure do not have a green thumb I could kill a plant just by looking at it. A shame to see varieties of plants disappearing. This seed vault is in Erics back yard and its good their thinking ahead on preservation.

aviator · 07-08-2023, 06:44 AM

I'm sure every year they select the varieties that do better and have a better chance of survival, you can observe evolution on plants since their life cycle is very short.

07-07-2023, 04:39 PM	#1
Sanders Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 66,557	Seed varieties __________________ "The truly dangerous man dresses inconspicuously and is soft- spoken. He walks away from most confrontations. The only time you learn that the truly dangerous man is mad at you is a split second before you die, for he never fights. He only kills. The truly dangerous man knows that fighting is what children do and killing is what men do." - Charley Reese 1986 3

07-07-2023, 09:33 PM	#2
aviator unum de multis Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bunker's Headquarters. Posts: 52,570	I always have basil and parsley growing, wife makes a great pesto. I have some of the sweetest cherry tomatoes I've ever tasted growing up, some girl who works with my son gave us some, her husband has a hydroponic farm in the backyard. __________________ "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Pesident Ronald Reagan

07-08-2023, 06:44 AM	#4
aviator unum de multis Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bunker's Headquarters. Posts: 52,570	I'm sure every year they select the varieties that do better and have a better chance of survival, you can observe evolution on plants since their life cycle is very short.