Apocalypse Survival Seeds

Category: Food & Drinks
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Total Reviews: 127 customer reviews
Average Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
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Ensure your survival after the society collapses by supplying yourself with apocalypse survival seeds. If hunting is not an option, these survival seeds ... [Read more]

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Great product!
by L. McNerney,Top Contributor: Smart Home (5 out of 5 stars)
April 8, 2016

I intended to buy a few of these, and combine them into one bucket I purchased a while back that was very disappointing. These were....just amazing. Unlike my prior purchase, these showed up hefty, feeling like they were actually FULL. The lids were on tight, AND taped down! This went directly into my long term storage...I will buy more, but now I have to find a source for seeds to fill the waste of money I purchased before these. Love it!

I only need to test viability....
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Nice Collection But Hardly What You Need for a Survival Garden
by Rutablavsky (2 out of 5 stars)
December 2, 2013

While this is a nice assortment, it is marketed toward the inexperienced gardener and prepper who has never grown food. If you have a limitless expanse of land to plant vegetables, this medley is great and has some great tasting varieties. If you have a small quarter acre lot or less, and you are tearing up every square inch of your yard for the actual survival of your family without other food sources, this mix is not an efficient use of your time or energy. When selecting what to plant for survival, the most important thing is to consider is the space the plant takes up and the calories it contains as well as the storage capabilities. The most calorie dense foods are potatoes, corn, grain, winter squash and root crops such as carrots and beets. Here's my review of each of the varieties contained.

Blue Lake Bean Over 150 seeds - Blue Lake is a fresh eating bean only. Instead, consider an heirloom that is good as a dry bean and fresh, such as Cherokee Trail of Tears (which is also drought resistant). That way beans can be eaten fresh or dried, shucked and saved for soup in the winter without canning. Beans are essential as they are they contain the highest source of protein in your garden.

California Wonder Pepper Over 70 seeds- These are large blocky bell peppers. If you must grow a sweet pepper, grow a variety that has more small pods, a slim profile and shoulders that do not face the sky at 90 degrees. It will lessen the chance of sunscald and damage from hail.

Scarlet Nantes Carrot Over 800 seeds- Plant short, stubby carrots instead, like Danver's Half Long. They will do well in all soils, including clay, they will be less mishappen for better storage. Eat the greens too. They have more nutrients than the roots and will stay green well into the fall.

Marketmore Cucumber Over 150 seeds- Cucumbers are a lot of space for very few calories. If you must grow them, grow a bush pickling variety. Bush varieties take up less space and pickling varieties can be eaten fresh, or pickled.

Parris Island Cos Romaine Lettuce Over 900 seeds- Only grow in the winter in cold frames, or very early spring. There are far more nutritious greens like chard, orach, amaranth, quinoa. The calories you expend growing lettuce isn't worth it if you're in survival mode. Take a multivitamin.

Golden Acre Cabbage Over 530 seeds- These get to be 3 to 4 lbs per head, and does not yield much in the ways of calories. I would very carefully consider your storage options before planting a bunch of it.

Detroit Dark Red Beet Over 260 seeds- Excellent choice

Lincoln Shell Pea Over 100 seeds- Good to grow

Lucullus Swiss Chard Over 160 seeds- Chard is the easiest thing to grow in your garden. Nutritious, it is also the most drought, cold, and heat tolerant of any vegetables and has few problems from pests. If you don't know what you're doing, plant more of this one.

Beefsteak Tomato Over 180 seeds- Plant a smaller fruiting variety. Big tomatoes are prone to more problems, such as hail. It's easier to fail with a large fruiting variety. Any medium round heirloom that is golfball to baseball sized and not prone to cracking is a better choice. Smaller tomatoes are also good for sun drying.

Champion Radish Over 320 seeds- Good. Not high in calories, but quick to harvest, and takes up almost no space.

Green Sprouting Broccoli Over 500 seeds- Low in calories. Only grow if it's a winter crop.

Waltham Butternut Winter Squash Over 100 seeds- excellent choice

Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach Over 260 seeds- Plant this instead of lettuce. It grows early and can be harvested early and planted with something else.

Yellow Sweet Spanish Onion Over 145 seeds- Onions are whole different ballgame depending on where in the US you're located. Yellow Sweet Spanish is a northern storage onion (there are many pungent varieties that store longer). Down South, you don't need to grow long day onions because onions grow year round. If you live in the South, consult a local nursery about the best onion varieties.

Golden Bantam Sweet Corn Over 250 seeds- Corn is the single most important survival item in this can, and sweet corn is not as useful in a survival situation. What you want to get is a drought resistant dent corn. There are many drought resistant dent corn varieties that can be eaten fresh, and which can also be dried and ground into flour or saved for animal feed. Sweet corn is only good for fresh eating.

Hales Best Cantaloupe Over 70 seeds- Poor storage. A morale booster, perhaps, but if your goal is to stay alive...I wouldn't plant very much.

Snowball Self-blanching Cauliflower Over 285 seeds- Low calorie and prone to pests. Again, winter crop only.

Black Beauty Zucchini Over 50 seeds- Don't plant zucchini which is c. pepo, low calorie, and more prone to pests and which has no storage value. Plant Tromboncino or a similar c. moschata squash whose fruit can be eaten during the summer as zucchini or grown to full maturity for a long storing winter squash that tastes like butternut.

Crimson Sweet Watermelon Over 60 seeds- only a little more more useful than cantaloupe, but there are other varieties of watermelon known for their storage quality. Those would be the ones you want to seek out and plant.

If you are serious about preparing for SHTF event, please visit some forums about growing food and practice with a kitchen garden or guerrilla gardening so you understand your local growing conditions. Potatoes will keep you alive more than any plant listed on here. Also, other plants not included in this collection that you should seriously consider adding are amaranth and quinoa. Both are drought tolerant, both provide greens and grain, and amaranth grain is high in protein as well.

Again, I am not knocking this collection for its value or quality of varieties. I'm only criticizing its value as a seed survival kit. People who think they are buying some insurance to protect their families in a SHTF event would do well to consider the caloric needs of their family and look at purchasing 10 varieties well suited to their specific location instead, as well as planting fruit and nut trees.

Also, seeds store much longer when frozen. If you store in an airtight container to keep out all moisture, seeds can last 3 or 4 decades with very little loss of viability. If you invest the time assembling a serious doomsday garden survival kit, you can make it last during the good times by sticking it in the freezer.
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STELLAR value for the price.
by D.W. McAliley (5 out of 5 stars)
June 5, 2015

I got a few of these seed banks about five years ago when we started a community garden project at our church. I opened one to plant with, and it has been an awesome experience. I just used the last of my Blue Lake beans from the original package this year, and so far I've got about 50-60% germination. The first season I used them, it was up around 95%. After five years of being open, and using some of the seeds every year, I'm amazed that they still germinate at all, to be honest. There are still several varieties of vegetable in the pack that I just haven't gotten around to trying yet. I'd say in five years of small plot (20'x20') gardening I've used maybe 1/10th of the seeds in the container over all.

The plants grown from these seeds are amazingly fruitful too. We planted six cucumber plants two years ago and ended up with more than 200 cucumbers harvested!!! I had more cucumbers than I knew what to do with, so I made a new cucumber salsa recipe that the guys at work love.

In short, this is a heck of a deal for what you get. Keep the seeds in the sealed packages and they last a long time. Open them and use them, and you can still get 3-5 years of solid gardening out of them, not to mention any seeds you save from one harvest to the next. Whether you're planning to try your hand at a small veggie garden, you're an experience farmer, or a concerned citizen looking to secure a solid source of renewable food you can't really go wrong with this purchase.
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Missing 35% of seeds!
by Bobby D (2 out of 5 stars)
November 15, 2015

I purchased these a few years back for disaster purposes. I opened them today because I wanted some lettuce seeds for my cold frame. Guess what I DIDN"T find in the container...lettuce seeds. In fact, I was missing 7 of the 20 advertised seeds! I'm not pleased at all by their quality control.
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Great seeds to start a productive garden with.
by royce rubio (5 out of 5 stars)
March 28, 2016

Got my seeds earlier this month and have planted several different seeds and they have all germinated and started to grow within 1-2 weeks. I am so excited about this product and can not wait to enjoy all the hard work i put in creating the garden box and planting the seeds.

EDIT: Updated with some new photos of the seeds sprouting.
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Survivalist or just homestead starters.
by Mandilyn (4 out of 5 stars)
August 6, 2018

This can is marketed as a survivalist seed vault, but you don't have to be a doomsday prepper to get good use of it. My husband and I started our first garden last year. It was just a small one, but we did well with it. well enough, that we wanted something bigger. So I purchased this can because I like the assortment of seeds that are included. It's absolutely perfect and will help us cut down on grocery bills by a lot (we eat a ton of fruits and veggies). You already get a ton of seeds that will last in the cannister for years. Once those are planted, you can harvest seeds from the fully grown plants and grow your seed supply as well as your canned goods. We aren't really doomsday preppers, but we do like to have a good supply of foods for harsh winters (we live on a hill and winters aren't great, so we don't get to the store as often). I am also one of those people who likes to supply family, friends, neighbors, and those in need with fresh goods for free to help them out as well. So this cannister has fit our needs so well.
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What gives???
by The Silva7 (5 out of 5 stars)
June 5, 2017

What gives??? The outcome of the first planting is phenomenol! I had become so disappointed in my gardening! I really wanted a green thumb and this was my last ditch effort! Then wala....strong, healthy plants!!! Wow, produce was being gathered and I realized that the seed was the problem. At all of the big box stores you get these inadequate seeds. Weak, diseased seeds that produce very little if they even break ground! You're close to just giving up! But don't! The answer is NON GMO seeds!!! These were fantastic!!! NOW, the only problem is.....I've tried regrowing my pepper seeds from my first harvest and I'm not so successful!!!! They aren't even coming out of the ground! So, my question is...Why? What's the problem with these? Anybody else have this issue????
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What a relief to have, just in case
by DJ (5 out of 5 stars)
June 27, 2017

The amount of seeds they give us is quite a lot! And all the potential crops are very high in nutrients from all over the spectrum; lots of healthy carbohydrates to keep the brain working, with a fair amount of plant protein. Always best to eat these veggies cooked with animal proteins and healthy fats for a truly balanced diet, but I always consider vegetables a proper form of preventative medicine and they are healing foods. Better than potentially packaged processed foods all the time!

Truth is, I haven't used it yet, because ya know, civilization and everything is still poppin' off. But I love having this potentially high yield vegetative life safe in my fridge (it'll last longer) as a potential backup should anything bad happen! I'm considering buying a second one just to check the quality of the seeds and crop!

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They do grow!
by Outdoor Adam (5 out of 5 stars)
April 11, 2016

Great value for the money! The can came with so many seeds just as described in the details and most of them sprouted within a week or so. I have not been able to find this kind of value anywhere else!
* Blue Lake Bush Beans <150 seeds
* California Wonder Bell Pepper < 70 seeds
* Market more Cucumber < 150 seeds
* Scarlet Nantes Carrot < 800 seeds
* Parris Island Cos Romaine Lettuce < 900 seeds
* Golden Acre Cabbage < 530 seeds
* Detroit Dark Red Beet < 260 seeds
* Lincoln Sweet Pea < 100 seeds
* Stowell's Evergreen Sweet Corn < 260 seeds
* Beefsteak Tomato < 180 seeds
* Champion Radish < 320 seeds
* Green Sprouting Broccoli < 500 seeds
* Waltham Butternut Winter Squash < 100 seeds
* Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach < 260 seeds
* Yellow Sweet Spanish Onion < 145 seeds
* Black Turtle Bean < 70 seeds
* Hales Best Cantaloupe < 70 seeds
* Snowball Cauliflower < 285 seeds
* Black Beauty Zucchini < 50 seeds
* Crimson Sweet Watermelon < 60 seeds
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Makes a wonderful gift as well as a HUGE harvest for any gardener
by LizzieW (5 out of 5 stars)
November 13, 2016

I have purchased this set of seeds a few times as Christmas gifts and for myself. The last can I purchased was about 4 years ago and I was still using those same seeds and getting about 95 percent germination! I have a small garden and so I can't plant everything in the can at once. This year I grew the corn, green beans, black beans, lettuce and others and had a great summer crop. I hope the quality is still as good as before. I highly recommend this kit. You can also use the pouches to save your seed in for next year once you prepare and dry the seeds.

Some folks mentioned that their bean crops didn't do well but it helps to inoculate them with nitrogen before planting. This year I planted mine not expecting much to happen since they were 4 years old and so I didn't inoculate them and they really went to town anyway. The rabbits loved them!
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big letdown
by S. D. Morgan (2 out of 5 stars)
June 16, 2016

I really wanted to like this, a whole can full of heirloom seeds sounded like such a good idea! It's sealed up beautifully, in a metal can sealed with black tape, and all the seeds are in airtight packages. But the good stopped there. I planted several of the seeds, in well-prepped garden beds. The radishes were tiny and hard, the tomatoes are barely alive although other tomato seeds I planted at the same time are doing just great. The corn? Out of a small patch of a dozen seeds planted, only ONE sprouted. I sure hope nobody was actually counting on these to provide food, it's very random whether the seeds will result in anything at all. I gave it two stars because I'm still going to try to save some seeds and see what happens next year (but I'm not holding my breath)

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