The Right Seeds for Your Garden

By Shaye Elliot
Published on June 20, 2018
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In Welcome to the Farm: How-to Wisdom from The Elliott Homestead, Shaye Elliot teaches readers how they can live a homestead lifestyle without a farm. In this fully illustrated how-to, Elliot shows readers how to harvest their own vegetables, milk a dairy cow, can jams and jellies, and more! The following excerpt is from Chapter 1, “The Home Garden.”

Let’s talk about seeds. Obviously, one of the foundational ways to ensure success in your backyard garden is to get the right seeds for the job. While the seeds available on the market are as numerous as grains of sand on the beach, there are a few ways to determine which are the right ones for your garden. Spending some time during the winter months (preferably curled up next to a fire with a warm mug of chamomile tea) planning for the year’s garden will really pay off. A wee bit of research in ordering your seeds will reward you big time.

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