My family, like many others out there, has a vegetable garden every year and just like everyone else we usually go to our local hardware store, or nursery, to pick out our seeds and plants. This season we decided to go a different, more challenging route.

My wife has always been disappointed with the selection of plants and seeds for sale during the spring planting season. She has purchased gardening books in the past and knew about all of these unconventional types of the staples like tomatoes, corn and melons so she knew what kinds were available.

After surfing the internet for a while she stumbled upon a fairly local company that sold organic seeds and they offered a wide selection of vegetable types, many we hadn’t even heard of before. Being the holistic person she is my wife was all excited and ready to start this journey of gardening by seed instead of plants. The seeds cost less than two dollars a package and each package had a few seeds. Compare the price to what the plants cost at the hardware store and there certainly is an opportunity to save some money while growing your own veggies at home.