It is seed buying season and I don't know about you, but I have so enjoyed cuddling up on my couch.

Usually there's a football game on in the background and looking through all the seed catalogs dreaming of this year's garden.

And I'm getting ready at the time of this recording to hit purchase on a lot of those.

But there is a place in your garden where you might be spending more money on

seeds than you need to, and most gardeners don't even realize that it's happening. It's the way that we

buy seeds, and specifically the assumption that buying a seed packet is almost always the most

practical choice for a home gardener.

For years, I bought seeds the same way that maybe you do, one packet at a time, because I assumed

that anything larger was meant for farmers or market gardeners, not someone gardening on a small

scale like I was. But when I started doing the math and buying

larger packs of some specific seeds, I realized how much more economical that this can actually be.

In today's episode, I'm going to show you how to decide which seeds are actually worth buying in larger quantities, and just as importantly,

which ones that usually aren't, so that overall you can spend less when you're choosing

which seeds you want to grow in your garden. Now, before we get started, I have to thank

Portia. She is a listener who suggested this topic to me. This is something

that I've been doing for a while, but I hadn't even thought about sharing it until this

episode when she mentioned it to me. So what you're going to learn today is a mix of both my

own experience and some of her insights that she shared with me that I found would be very

helpful to pass along to you.

Here is the seed buying blind spot that most gardeners have. We buy seed packets by default,

whether that is from our favorite catalog or our favorite online source, or we go to the

hardware store, or we go to Walmart,

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