One drawback, however, is that you are limited to growing only the varieties of flowers or vegetables that your local nurseries choose to carry.
If you decide you want to grow a type of tomato that is not available as transplants from local nurseries, you have to grow your own transplants from seed.
It’s not as hard as you might think. With practice and perseverance, the average gardener can master the techniques of growing transplants of flowering annuals and vegetables from seeds.
The seeds of many annual flowers and vegetables take about six to eight weeks to grow into transplants ready for the garden, so seeds planted now should be for warm-season flowers and vegetables that will be planted into the garden in late March and April.
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