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April 9, 2021

Time to try growing some vegetable or flower transplants

By LEE REICH
Associated Press

If you've never grown your own transplants for your garden, perhaps this is the year to do it. It's economical, it allows you to grow varieties you might not be able to buy as transplants, it's satisfying and it's easy.

If you're new to the transplant game, start with a flower or vegetable that's relatively easy to raise from seed. Zinnia, calendula and cosmos are some of the easiest. Among vegetables, choose from among lettuce, kale, cabbage and — that most widely grown vegetable of all — tomato.


 
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