Buying plants at the nursery is a fast and simple way to get a garden growing. There are several reasons you might want to do so. Each year, seed companies introduce new annuals with larger or more colorful flowers and vegetables with more luscious fruit. It's not always possible to find nursery plants of these varieties, and if you want to have them you must grow them from seed. Growing your own plants from seed is more economical, a serious consideration if you have a large garden.
Some plants do well only when grown from seed.
These include some annuals, like California poppy, sunflower, sweet pea and na sturtium, and vegetables such as beets, carrots, radishes and peas. Children may be introduced to gardening by growing their own seedlings. And, finally, there is a certain satisfaction, come July, to look around a thriving garden and know that you were responsible for starting these plants from the very beginning. 32 pages, paperback, shipping weight 0.11 pound. Taking the local seed system as a starting point, we attempt with this book to generate an understanding of what local seed systems are.