During the seed starting class, some participants confided in me that they had tried seed starting in the past but were frustrated by the lack of success.
My suggestion is to start out with the easier seeds in order to gain experience and confidence before moving on to the more exotic seeds.
Some easiest vegetable seeds are the cabbage family, which in addition to cabbage, includes broccoli, cauliflower and brussels sprouts.
Onions, head lettuce, tomatoes and peppers are also considered easy to start.
You can gain some valuable experience starting flowers such as alyssum, cosmos, marigold and zinnia. This may seem like a short list, but there are a wide variety of shapes colors and sizes of these varieties available now days.
I would also venture to say that nearly all seed varieties available from a hardware or department store would fall into the category of easy to start. This is because the seed companies also want you to have a good gardening experience, so they offer the seeds which are most likely to grow in the hands of a beginner.
Different varieties of seeds need to be started at different times so we’ll cover that in the next blog.
Bob