I start my peppers and tomatoes indoors around the first week of March,in NE Ohio-and plant them around mid-May,that means they'll be big enough plants to survive the light frosts we occasionally get here into May,or I can cover them with plastic in case we get a hard frost-like we did a few years back over Memorial Day weekend.
I use mainly heirloom seeds,because you can not save the seeds from hybrid plants for the next year,due to the fact that you will get very few or no vegetables off the plants that do grow from saved hybrid seeds.
Let's say late summer/early fall is when some kind of SHTF event takes place,something that's not gonna be over with by spring-and you have a garden full of plants grown from hybrid seed-and nowhere to go buy seed for spring.
How are you going to grow any vegetables to feed yourself and your family?
You won't be able to because hybrid seeds are only good for one year's crop.
If you had a garden full of plants grown from heirloom seeds,you would be fine,as heirloom seeds can be saved,and you will get the same great yields that you got from the plants you saved the seeds from.
Another thing I do is keep enough seed on hand to plant the same amount of vegetables I normally plant for two years,that way if I lose most of a crop-or even the whole crop for whatever reason-I still have the seed to re-plant the following spring.
I'll be buying my seed from Jebadiah Fisher Garden Seed,it's all heirloom seed,no hybrid seed,so no one year only harvest-you can save the seeds from this year's crop to plant next years crop,something you an not do when you hybrid seed,like just about all the seeds at your local big box home center are.
Then there's the fact that Jebadiah Fisher Garden Seed is a Patriot owned business-and we all need to support patriot and locally owned businesses.
Wirecutter told me he was amazed at the amount of vegetables his plants produced when he used their seed,that's another plus to heirloom seeds-people saved the seeds from only the plants that produced the best yields for years,after many,many years of doing this-the heirloom varieties of seeds produce the best yields and have the best flavor. Once you plant with only heirloom seeds-you'll never go back to using hybrid seed again.
Check out the site,go ahead and compare prices-I did-and you'll see that you are getting more than a fair price,and you get a superior product-give them a try-you won't be disappointed...
http://jebadiahfishergardenseed.com/
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