Mrs. David's Garden Seeds®

---

Doomsday Dry Bean Seeds

This page gives information on Doomsday Dry Bean Seeds from David's Garden Seeds®. 

Doomsday Dry Bean Seeds Information

This is our Doomsday Dry Bean Seeds page. It tells how many dry beans one would need on hand in an emergency situation, if all one had to eat were dry beans.

The bean we recommend is the pinto bean.

Now there are many types of dry beans but we will focus on the pinto for this page. It is the easiest to grow, store and cook.

One cup of pinto beans contains about 245 calories. One plant will produce about one cup of beans. On a 2,000 calorie diet we would need about nine cups of beans per day. That is nine plants per person per day.

We would need 3,285 plants a year. One plant would produce about 100 seeds. That would be another 400 seeds for seed production. And we would want 400 seeds in reserve for emergency purposes. 

Let's say we would want 4,000 bean seeds.

Pinto beans, if kept dry, will last for years for seed production. Even more years for eating.  Pinto beans are really the best all around food in a doomsday situation.

Native to Mexico, pintos take about 90 to 150 days to grow as a dry bean but can be harvested earlier and eaten as a green snap bean. They require very little care, although they need more space between plants than other bean types. Since they are indigenous to subtropical climes, they can be sensitive to cold.

In a raised bed that is 4 feet wide by 8 feet long, you can grow about 400 plants. You would need 10 raised beds of 32 square feet to grow 4000 plants. 

I would plant one plot a week or every two weeks to stagger my plantings so I am not trying to harvest and process a whole lot of beans at one time. 

If I want dry beans I will leave them on the plants until the pods dry out and turn brittle to the touch. It will be much easier to thresh them.

"Threshing is the process of removing seeds from the plant and breaking up remaining plant materials (e.g., stems and leaves), into what is called chaff. The dry seed heads attached to the plants are rubbed or crushed to release the seed and break down the plant material. This step facilitates the subsequent separation of the seeds from the plant materials in the seed cleaning process."

Return from Doomsday Dry Bean Seeds to Doomsday Prepper

Since 2009, over 1,500,000 home gardeners, all across the USA, have relied on David's Garden Seeds® to grow beautiful gardens. Trust is at the heart of it. Our customers know David's Garden Seeds® stocks only the highest quality seeds available. Our mission is to become your lifetime supplier of quality seeds. It isn't just to serve you once; we want to earn your trust as your primary supplier.

---

Watch Our 2022 TV Commercial!

Sing Along To Our Jingle

 ♪♫♪♪ ♫ ♪ ♫♪♫♫

 ♪♫♪♪♫♫

Peppers and peas

And lots of yummy greens

You can't go wrong

With Squash This Long

At David's Garden Seeds

♪ ♫ ♪ ♫

---

Our New 2024 TV Ad

---

Please like and subscribe on YouTube and come visit us at our Farm Store! The music on our TV ad was written, played, and sung by our son, Matthew Schulze. You can meet him when you come to the farm. He just might give you a tour. Ask him to grab a guitar and sing our jingle that he wrote.

---

---

We are David's Garden Seeds®. If you need great seeds, we've got over 1,000 varieties to choose from.

---

Subscribe To Mrs. David's Garden Seeds® Newsletter For FREE!

Find out what is going on down on the farm by reading our blog and by subscribing to our free newsletter for all of the information going down at David's Garden Seeds® and on the farm. I love to share helpful information with you. Please let your friends know and y'all come on down for a visit when you get the chance. We would love to meet you!