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Finding Vegetable Gardening Success With Seeds
Anyone can cruise down to the local nursery and pick up a few six packs of vegetables to plant in their garden, but if you are interested in having the best possible garden then you should start your plants using vegetable garden seeds.
You Know the History
When you start your garden from vegetable garden seeds instead of using mature nursery offerings, you know where your plants came from. You have been with your plants since the moment they sprouted from their vegetable garden seeds. When you buy seedlings at the store or nursery, you could be buying diseases that will spread to your other plants.
You have no way of knowing if the plants you buy have been treated with a pesticide or given a chemical fertilizer. When you start your garden from your own vegetable garden seeds, you know everything that has been applied to your plants.
Some nurseries and big box retailers with garden centers dont always do a good job of watering the plants while they are on display. A plant might look healthy enough, but if it has had periods of being water starved that could affect the eventual outcome of your harvest. A tomato plant that has gone through dry spells will often produce cracked tomatoes. When you use vegetable garden seeds to start your own plants you can avoid those kind of problems.
You Save Money
It is much more cost effective to plant your own vegetable garden seeds than it is to buy full grown vegetable plants. In fact, you can often buy a whole packet of seeds for less than the cost of one nursery grown plant.
If you dont want to buy a packet of fifty tomato seeds because you only want to plant three of that variety, work out a trade with a gardening friend. Seed swaps are a great way to get rid of unused seeds and try new varieties of plants without paying for them.
You can also save money by saving your own vegetable garden seeds instead of buying new ones each year. As you harvest your vegetables each year, make sure you set aside a certain amount of seeds.
Always save seeds from the best vegetables you find in your garden, because they will produce nicer plants the next year. Dry them carefully so that they wont rot or mold over the winter and then store them in an airtight container, placed in a cool location. |
