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Shop Now For Your 2021 Vegetable Garden Seeds
With increased demand because of the pandemic, seeds are selling quickly these days. Here are some tips on selecting varieties for your garden.
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Although it may seem early to begin planning your 2021 vegetable garden, now’s the perfect time. Winter is, after all, meant for resting and preparing for the next growing season.
Last year saw an increased demand for vegetable garden seeds as a result of the pandemic. So for 2121, it’s worth it to get your order in early.
Here’s how to select vegetables and varieties for your garden.
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Spend too much time pouring over seed catalogs and plotting out every square foot of your raised beds and the seeds you need might be sold out.
Vegetable seed sellers experienced skyrocketing demand last spring as concerns over potential food shortages drove some of the demand; gardening also helped pass the time during quarantine leading seed companies to post virtual “out of stock” stickers on some popular seed varieties. As seed starting season begins again, sellers say demand hasn’t slowed down.
“The demand has been massive,” says Mike Lizotte, co-owner and managing director of American Meadows and board president of the Home Garden Seed Association.
And the envelope please: Plants of the year for a very strange year
The Perennial Plant Association and the All-America Selections have named their picks.
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So we guess Lesser calamint is actually more this year, as it s the Perennial Plant Association’s Plant of the Year. I. Rottlaender/Shutterstock
The unusual events of the previous year have continued into the new year. Of course, the plants of the year for 2021 were selected in 2020; I have hope that the world’s difficulties will lessen as the new year progresses. The selections were, shall we say, unusual.
The Perennial Plant Association’s plant of the year is calamint or lesser calamint (botanical name: Calamintha nepeta subsp. nepeta).
In today s Growing Together column, Don Kinzler lists the top new varieties and explains their characteristics. Written By: Don Kinzler | ×
Zinnia Profusion Red Yellow Bicolor. Photo courtesy of All-America Selections / Special to The Forum
The phrase “new and improved” is so cliche it’s often best left out of any marketing strategy. Some items, though, actually are new and improved, such as the yearly All-America Selections award-winning varieties of flowers and vegetables.
Plant breeders are prolific, introducing scores of new items each year, featured in the front pages of every garden seed catalog. The All-America Selections organization selects the best of the best, taking the guesswork out of new flower and vegetable varieties.