Doom's Day seeds
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Fellow garden writer Virginia Smith writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer that, with all the earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear power plant meltdowns, the apocolyptic seed business is going well.
The economic downturn sparked the birth of these companies, which will sell you 37,000 seeds (really?) in the equivalent of ammo boxes that can be buried for decades and still geminate. The seeds, not the ammo boxes.
It is a lively read, whether or not you have a bomb shelter in your backyard.
