Secrets Garden Centers Don't Want You To Know!

In this video I'm going to show you how to get free plants for your organic vegetable garden. It's 100% legal!

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[Investigativebean]

I feel like a gardener no matter what. I have grown from seeds, cuttings, bare roots, bulbs, tubers, cromes, grafts, and plugs. It doesn’t matter. You still have to keep it all alive, and it’s all still cathartic

[judyhowell]

We hit the jackpot at Lowes, neglected plants for .25 each vs $4.98. All are healthy and beautiful

[amendria]

I’ve never heard “you’re not a gardener, if …” from anywhere. I believe gardening is gardening, regardless how you start.

[mermaidasuna]

I used to buy transplants. Some of the garden was transplants like celery tomatoes and peppers but everything else I grew from seed. I just moved onto my 5 acre homestead and started all my plants from seed. It's such a rewarding feeling to be able to see my hard work pay off. I also don't care if someone thinks I'm a "real" gardener or not. Nor do I care if it's a transplanted or grown myself from seed. All that matters is that I have food growing. When harvest comes that's what counts.

[PackRatManiac]

I'm an advocate for "rescuing" plants from the garden centers at stores. I saw some pepper plants starting to get attacked by aphids at my grocery store. I rescued them and took care of the aphids. One pepper plant is loaded with peppers. The Habanero plant is taking a bit longer to put on fruit but the hot ones are usually slow growers in my experience. People buying plants from the stores aren't cheating, they are rescuing plants from a horrible demise of neglect and becoming stunted from living in a tiny pot.

[splifsis]

I don’t have any space to grow from seed and I’m in zone 7. So I have to buy transplants. I’m proud to support a local business and still grow food in my garden 🪴.

[songstress]

I get my seedlings from an Amish nursery down the street from my home. They are super cheap, hardy/healthy, and they have a huge selection! I buy them in the 4 and 6 packs.

[anneramirez]

Some of us simply don’t have the space in our homes, and the extra money, to start seedlings indoors. In Texas we get a warm early spring, so I just started my seeds outdoors. Then the wind came up…

[robynsjewelryideas]

I look for extras. Something else to add, if buying herbs. In the garden center at Walmart they were selling one basil plant for $4.89(?), I went to the produce section and in the pots there, there were a good 10 plants and they were $3 and change.

[jastrik]

I feel like if it produces or survives I did a fantastic job. 🤣

[chuckabell]

Real gardeners only grow from seeds, hand water, raise their own chickens, carp, and kelp for fertilizer, turn their own compost, and hand till the soil. <insert sarcasm sign here>! Gardeners come in all types. IMHO, if you do somewhat more than visit the grocery store for all your produce/fruit, and a shop for cut flowers then you're a real gardener! Plus maybe the occasional dirty hands or gloves are a good sign.

[cbdcdiva]

OmG you are so right. The "oh...you're not using seeds?" When I'm in the garden center, nursery or box store is a real thing. I live in the DC metro area and winter told Spring to "hold my beer" and the last known frost was frosting past mid April. So I did start seeds indoors but I also bought some multi-packs of some Spring items to help me get my garden going.

My attitude is, I'm the one tending it so it's all good. If anyone has an issue? I ask, so how about that late frost we had?? And they slink their judgy butts away.

It's gardening! Enjoy it!!

Sheesh!

*steps off soapbox, struts away*

[daygirl]

I love a variety of Cherry Tomato called Husky Cherry Red. I find them at Home Depot and I look at each container and I can usually find a few that have extra plants growing in them😁 This year one container had 3 plants in it and the other had two so I didn’t feel quite as bad paying $5 per container❤️

[LeeOfBent]

I see it this way: If I start waaaay too many tomatoes and peppers and give the extras to a few fellow gardeners because I ran out of space to keep them, thats fine. I'm one step removed from a professional nursery. The only difference is that nurseries/stores get money for the same thing, I get a plate of cookies for payment.

[LindaJMacKay]

I'm glad you broached this topic! I usually start all of my own veggies, but found 6 packs of various hot peppers for sale at .29c per 6 pack, as well as cabbage and other things I didn't start on my own. Felt a little sheepish, but 29c for 6 Habanero? Yes! I bought many and felt I was 'saving them' as it was end of June so would hqve hit the compost! Also found a Tradescantia Zebrina for 29c which is now a houseplant and has been propegated indoors into 4 new plants! I prefer to grow from seed, but there is no shame in buying good quality seedlings! 💚 Have an awesome weekend! 🌻

[msginnny]

I was about an hour away from going to the garden center to buy my plants, feeling guilty, when I saw your video. Constructing my new raised beds and filling them took quite a lot longer than I expected and I hadn't started seeds as yet. But your advise was a great help and I'm looking forward to filling up the beds with lots of new plants, no guilt!

[judyw]

i like that you asked about "taboo" or "snobbery" for seeds vs transplants. i think most of us try our best to start from seed. it is a pride issue. we want to do it. but if you aren't a full time stay at home gardener, sometimes you revert to transplants. in my honest opinion, what i find lacking is teaching videos on where things failed! because they will. i am not a full time stay at home gardener, so i appreciate tips and tricks from those who are, and also see what failed, because if they failed, chances are i might too. i am less discouraged to try then. i will take more chances growing a 100 seed packet at cost of $1 seed vs a $5 plant. it is a good feeling to grow and care for something you wanted and you will use and eat and enjoy. that is the most important thing. you can do it, but you will fail sometimes. important to teach yourself why things went wrong

[isabelleblain]

I do both - growing from seeds, and transplants. We are Canadians who spend the winter in Florida. By the time we get back North, it is too late to start a number of veggies from seeds. So I am very happy to do transplants for those. I start the the faster growing ones from seeds. It works for me. I feel I have the best of both worlds.

[elsadakota]

More and more nurseries are having fewer and fewer six packs. They sure know how to make $$$. I sometimes get live basil from the grocery store and seperate, also, when they get taller I’ll cut them back, remove most leaves and put in water to root. I totally agree with you on going smaller with 6 packs. They actually grow way better for me than the bigger 4-6 inch pots

[marysills]

Excellent info. My grandfather was a farmer all his life. What he grew he grew by seed. Except one veggie. He always bought tomato plants.