Vegetable Seed Companies:

Not All They Should Be

Now that you’re on your way to a fantastic raised vegetable garden bed that no longer demands the use of fertilizer, you’ll want to make sure you have the kind of seeds that will keep your vegetables coming back beautifully year after year. Walking out of your back door in the early morning dew to harvest a few vegetables for the day is probably the most rewarding part of gardening!

Because you, your loved ones, or friends will be sharing in the benefits of your garden, adopt a mindset of organic gardening and select a quality of seed for which you can be proud! Because you will be receiving the nutrition from the vegetables into your body, I implore you to pay careful attention to the quality of the type of seed that you will be buying when selecting from among the many vegetable seed companies. When selecting seeds, you have two choices: heirloom or genetically altered seeds, now purported to be the “regular” seed. Selecting a quality seed will be important to your nutritional intake as will be clearly demonstrated in the following paragraph.

Vegetable Seed Companies: Not All Equal

When examining the myriad varieties of seeds available to us today, the fact is that during the process of breeding plants in order to obtain a vegetable that is more resistant to pests, much of the nutritional value of the vegetable itself has been lost! Perhaps one of the vegetables was bred for the purpose of finding a larger, more colorful variety, but you may have noticed that the flavor is no longer what it used to be. Still, maybe a vegetable was instead bred for flavor and obtained its results (!), but instead has traded taste for nutritional value. If you doubt these statements, simply conduct some research yourself on how plants have been bred over the last twenty to thirty years. I think you will find it difficult to find a seed that has NOT been modified. So, are you really getting the nutrition you think when you pick up a large, ripe tomato from your garden?

Vegetable Seed Companies: NOT Genetically Altered

Well, the good news is that you could be harvesting a nutritionally satisfying tomato from your nutrient rich soil! The choice is yours. Yet, I understand the dilemma. Sometimes, heirloom seeds are difficult to find or seem quite a bit more expensive. But WAIT until you understand what you could be doing with the heirloom seeds you purchase that will save you money.

• Sustainable Seeds Company
• Baker Seeds
• Bountiful Gardens

Often, purchasing seeds every year is actually an unnecessary step that we have been programmed to follow every spring. What about the seeds that you invested in last year? Did you have any left . . . or maybe you actually used every single last one?! I doubt it!

When planting seeds, you only need one or two seeds per planting hole! The pack that you bought last year for just one vegetable, contained probably anywhere from 50-200 seeds! Let me guess, you probably put between ten and 20 seeds into each hole. It’s no wonder that you don’t have any for this season. What? Worried that your seeds won’t be able to last until next season? Just store them in an airtight container (preferably glass) in the back of your refrigerator. By next season, they’ll be dying to get out of your refrigerator and into some nutrient-rich soil! Heirloom seeds need not be expensive. As you have seen, heirloom seeds from vegetable seed companies can instead be the less expensive way toward improved nutrition and health!