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Garden seeds are the easiest way to start your own garden, whether it’s a flower garden or a vegetable garden. Seed planting is one of the most important steps to successful home gardening. A seed may have the appearance to be all right and yet not have within it enough vitality to produce a healthy plant.
You could save seeds from your own plants, by doing so you are able to choose them carefully. But it’s just as likely as not the seeds will produce plants like the parent plant. Because a weak, straggly plant may produce one fine blossom. Looking at that one blossom so really beautiful you think of the numberless equally lovely plants you are going to have from the seeds.
So let’s look here at the entire plant that is to be considered. Is it sturdy, strong, well shaped and symmetrical; does it have a good number of fine blossoms? These are questions to ask in seed selection.
If you could visit a seed producer’s garden, you would see here and there a blossom with a string tied around it. These are blossoms chosen for seed. If you look at the whole plant with care you will be able to see the points which the producer held in mind when he did his work of selection.
In seed selection size is another point to hold in mind. Now we know no way of telling anything about the plants from which this special collection of seeds came. So we must give our entire thought to the seeds themselves. It is quite evident that there is some choice; some are much larger than the others; some far plumper, too. By all means choose the largest and fullest seed. The reason is this: When you break open a bean and this is very evident, too, in the peanut you see what appears to be a little plant. So it is. Under just the right conditions for development this little guy grows into the bean plant you know so well.
This little plant must depend for its early growth on the nourishment stored up in the two halves of the bean seed. For this purpose the food is stored. Beans are not full of food and goodness for you and me to eat, but for the little baby bean plant to feed upon. And so if we choose a large seed, we have chosen a greater amount of food for the plantlet. This little plantlet feeds upon this stored food until its roots are prepared to do their work. So if the seed is small and thin, the first food supply insufficient, there is a possibility of losing the little plant.
Plants need a certain amount of space to grow well, and most plants can only be moved successfully when they are quite small. If some plants should die their neighbors will take advantage of this by growing both under and above ground in the direction of the empty space.
From large seeds come the strongest plantlets. That is the reason why it is better and safer to choose the large seed.
Well that’s all I have for you here I hope the information was of good use. Remember if you buy your seeds. Each garden seed pack contains a wealth of information to help you successfully grow your own food and you should store the seeds in moisture-proof containers.
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