Planting and Growing Seeds
When it comes to planting and growing with seeds, every gardener should consider it as a starter for thier next garden. Everyone loves a garden with plenty of great flowers growing in a lush garden. But paying for all those plants can cost you a small fortune! The most inexpensive way to grow plants is growing seeds. Here are some great seed companies, books on planting and more.
First – every one at some time is a beginner gardener. Here are a few books I have found are really helpful for beginners to get you started:
Now that you have read about the basics of gardening, here are some resources for growing seeds and getting the best seeds, plants and bulbs to start your garden right. Even those really cool vegtables you see at The Farmers Market, you can grow right in your own garden! Or check out greenhouse seeds for more ideas.
Some places have these cool mixed packs that are great for getting your garden started. They might be just the ticket for starting your own vegtable or flower garden.
Vegetable Sampler Pack
A bountiful variety packet of seeds to grow everything tasty that you can imagine. Includes 1 packet each of the following vegetables: Black Zucchini, Early Scarlet Radish, Delicious Tomato, Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce, Topcrop Bush Bean,
Bloomsdale Spinach, Tendersweet Carrot,
Cylindra Beet, Chicago Pickling, Wando Pea,
Yellow Monster Pepper, Minnesota Midget Cantaloupe.
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Decorative Sunflower Mix
If you have ever wanted to grow sunflowers, here is the packet for you. An amazing mix of four varieties of Sunflowers:
Velvet Queen has crimson petals
Lemon Queen has pale yellow petals
Dwarf Sunspot has 10" flowers on 2' stems
Autumn Beauty whose colors may be bronze, yellow, burgundy, red or orange
Sometimes it is better to order the plant rather than grow from seeds. The two plants below, roses and fruit bushes, are a good example of plants that are best grown this way. One of the best things I have found with ordering on the web, is the abundant variety of plants I have found from specialty nurseries like this one listed below:
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Double Knock Out Rose Grows into a tight, compact 3 to 4 ft. high shrub/hedge with a non-stop explosion of brilliant red blooms. Double Knock Out survives in many areas and is so adaptable that it thrives from Florida to Canada…full sun or partial shade. Plant along walkways, borders, patios and foundations. Since this plant will continue to bloom throughout the year, there is no need to trim off old or dead flowers. New flowers are continually pushing the old ones out of the way. It is naturally resistant to diseases and pests that attack other roses. |
Blackberry Ebony King Rubus 'Ebony King', is large and has delicious purple berries that are perfect for baking. Excellent berry for pies, cobblers, turnovers, topping ice cream, and added to cereal. Ebony King's upright thornless canes bear fruit in summer before hot days set in. Picking is easy and fun! Blackberries fruit on two-year old canes. After they have finished fruiting, the canes should be pruned away at the base. Plants flower around the start of summer and fruit ripens about mid-July. |
