Self-Suffiency Through Home Home Gardening: Part 2

Choosing seeds and plants can be daunting. The most important consideration when choosing seeds is to plant what your family will eat! If they won't eat broccoli or lima beans, why plant them? There is no right or wrong. If you don't like the variety you planted this year, try a different one next year.

You will find two types of seeds to buy. Heirloom and open-pollinated seeds are old varieties. This only matters if you are saving seed from your garden to share or plant next year. They are the seeds I choose because, in my opinion, their flavor is superior to hybrids. The other type is hybrid...