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Re: starts or seed?

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> Question: My local nursery guy has quite a few starts like brocolli,
> numerous lettuce, swiss chard, etc and I was wondering if I should get
those
> instead of planting my seeds. He said go ahead and plant my seeds and
don't
> get the starts....what would you do?

I would definitely get the starts, although lettuce and chard are easy to
start from seed. That's the problem for a newbie (like me), buying seeds is
attractive, but I never know how hard it's going to be to start them, and
some seeds are tricky while others are a breeze! This year so far I've had
good luck with (from seed) peas, chard, lettuce, turnips, cabbage, radishes,
scallions. I tried some tomato seeds and nothing happened, I guess they are
harder to start. Some veggies aren't too hard to start from seed, but they
take so long to sprout and grow that they are not worth it unless you have a
really long growing season. Anyway, that's what I've learned. Well wishes,

Annie Sargent in gorgeous Utah
annie@esargent.org


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