Planting Seeds vs. Starts: Pros and Cons

Plant from seed? Tuck in starts? You’ve got choices, my friend.

You ’re all pitch up to plant a fall garden — or any garden for that matter — and you ’re stuck at the crossroads of planting seeds or planting starts . Here ’s a checklist that will facilitate you decide which planting itinerary you should be going down .

veggie plant life such as radishes , turnip , carrot , prickly-seeded spinach , beets , and even lettuce are n’t peculiarly thrilled to be transplanted . So I always suggest that people found them directly into the garden bed by seminal fluid . As for the rest of them — you ’ve get choices , my friend .

Starting with Seeds

They can be challenge , exciting , and addicting .

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Growing with Starts – Also known as transplants or baby plants

Of course , all garden vegetables start with seeds . But you do n’t have to start out your vegetable garden with them .

I typically take ejaculate to engraft my garden . But it just so hap that this year I ’ve become to engraft some starts in my fall garden . My cauliflower , Brassica oleracea italica , and pea were off to a grand starting line when one of my family members ( whom shall remain unknown — mostly because everyone is smart enough not to confess ) left the logic gate open .

The cervid made short study of my young , cool - weather garden . I was back to square one , so I pick up some showtime in the nursery and we are back in the crepuscle garden line of work again .

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