Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm so glad you're here today.

A couple of months ago, I was speaking on beginning gardening to a small

group of women at my church, and a question came up that is a very common one among especially

first-time gardeners. Which plants should I buy as transplants, and which should I grow from seed

directly in the garden? Now, I've addressed this in detail in episode number four,

which is called seeds or transplants, which one should I choose.

So if you haven't heard that episode,

I recommend you going back to it when you're finished today.

But one of the ladies made a comment that I think is extremely common.

She said, she figured she'd buy all of her crops

as transplants from the local garden center.

I totally understand where she was coming from

because my very first year,

which I really don't count because it was more

of my husband's thing at the time, not mine,

we bought everything as transplants. It wasn't until I started gardening more seriously that I realized

there are some crops I always recommend you grow from seed directly in the garden. And I'm going to

discuss six of those crops in detail in this episode.

This is going to come to good news for you if you fall into one of these categories.

Maybe you aren't ready to start seeds indoors. You're brand new and you want to take baby

steps. I get you. A few of these crops, you do not want to

start indoors at all. And I'll talk about why. And the others, I just don't recommend it for

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