For Immediate Release

July 2, 2009

Experts Feel Fall Seed Gardening Is Best

Late summer is the ideal time to start your fall garden. In most areas of the country, you can grow a “second season” crop of your favorite cool-season vegetables and lovely fall flowers. In mild winter areas, fall is an excellent time to sow many of these garden favorites which will mature during the winter and into next spring.

Many casual gardeners don't bother to plant later in the summer because they think of a garden as something to be planted in spring. The HGSA is out to change that mindset, along with the idea that growing plants from seed is difficult. The HGSA has found that "fear of failure" is the primary reason many home gardeners do not garden with seed, and it wants to forever dispel that fear. To help gardeners gain confidence with seeds, the HGSA has assembled a list of
the Top Ten Fall Varieties that are EZ and fun to grow from seed:

Eight Great Reasons To Start From Seed

1. Grow your own food, it’s healthier and more nutritious, at a fraction of today’s supermarket costs.

2. Save your gas money with fewer trips to the store – “shop” in your own backyard.

3. When you buy started plants for your garden, you have no idea what has been fed to or sprayed on them to get them ready for market.

4. It is easy, and fun, to grow your own plants from seeds!

5. You can grow unusual plants from seed never found "already-started" in nurseries and garden centers.

6. You have personal control of nurturing your seedlings to become the safest, healthiest plants.

7. Become a member of the long legacy of American Home Gardeners who have grown their own vegetables, herbs and flowers from fresh seed.

8. Reinvigorate the spirit of the VICTORY GARDENS grown from seeds by millions and millions of Americans the WWII years.

The Home Garden Seed Association (HGSA)

The Home Garden Seed Association (HGSA) is an international group of seed producers and seed packet companies committed to supporting home gardening success, specifically through the use of seeds.