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Vegetable Garden Seeds - Types and Varieties for Beginner Vegetable Gardeners

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Vegetable garden seeds , varieties for beginning vegetable gardeners

Do you want to start a vegetable garden and do you want to start sowing yourself? Then you can be quite impressed by the range of vegetable garden seeds , vegetable types and varieties. By types I mean pumpkin , parsnip or lettuce. The varieties are then in the case of carrots for example: Amsterdamse bak , Nantes , Berlikum or Flakkese. In reality there are hundreds of varieties of vegetables in garden centers and online web shops. Some online shops specialize in a type of vegetable, then you have to place multiple orders but it can sometimes be worth it if you want to grow that one rare type. Other websites have dozens or hundreds of varieties of a certain vegetable. Often you can't see the forest for the trees or you have to wait a long time for your order because not all types are in stock. Vegetable garden seeds Moestuinweetjes tries to offer a mix of the common types and a few 'specials'. A nice range of seeds that we always have in stock. In this article we try to help you with your choices and I give you my favorite varieties per vegetable. I use different criteria for this: Taste, quality, growth speed, originality, yield, organic or non-organic, easy to harvest, cultivation method, disease and pest sensitivity are crucial factors in choosing your varieties. The varieties that we include in this article are also suitable for growing in our climate. People sometimes buy seeds when traveling but then have to watch in dismay as their sown vegetables do not produce the desired result because we live in a fairly cold climate.

Vegetable garden seeds for taste

One of my biggest motivations to grow vegetables is the intense taste that I bring from the vegetable garden to the kitchen. Fresh fries from Agria potatoes or a puree of Cornegattes potatoes , that's what I want to dig in the ground for. The taste of a home-grown Coeur de Boeuf tomato, that's what I hopefully and with great pleasure put a seed in the ground in February.


Vegetable garden seeds for quality

Growing your own vegetables is a challenge, also in terms of quality. Without well-worked soil you will have sprouting carrots or quickly sprouting onions. But the variety can also determine the quality of your result. F1 varieties are genetically improved varieties. I grew two types of broccoli this year, the Calabrese and the Marathon F1, both in exactly the same way. The quality of the broccoli Marathon F1 was much better in volume, taste and texture than the Calabrese. Many vegetable gardeners have objections in principle or ethically to the genetic manipulation of vegetables (F1 varieties). Personally, I would find it formidable if everyone produced part of their own food, no matter which seeds .

Broccoli Marathon F1 broccoli Marathon F1

Vegetable Garden Seeds for Growth Speed

We assume that we have time in the vegetable garden, that we do not force anything. After all, we do not have to live from our production like farmers and gardeners do. But what if you want your greenhouse or garden house free in mid-May to plant out your fruit crops. Then you should plant the right kind of cauliflower in the winter. So speed can play a role in subsequent cultivation and.

Vegetable garden seeds for originality

Purple carrots, yellow courgettes and an old variety of potatoes that our ancestors still ate. All fun to grow. Although I have to say that I have been focusing on the ordinary things lately. Bringing the cultivation to a successful conclusion in an ecological way is the most important thing. Although one does not exclude the other.

Buzzy Summer Carrot Rainbow F1 Buzzy Summer Carrot Rainbow F1

Vegetable garden seeds for high yield

It often happens that you sow different varieties of one vegetable. A row of carrots Rainbow F1 for the nice colours and a row of carrots Nantes for the yield. Some varieties have a higher yield than others. Some names of crops refer to this. For example the tomato 'Moneymaker' or the Pea and 'Marktveroveraar'. These are productive varieties. In other words, you can eat more vegetables per m2.

Organic or not Organic vegetable garden seeds

Carrot seed Nantes 2 Carrot seed Nantes 2 BIO
carrots Nantes 2 half long normal

Organic seeds are grown from organic vegetables. Vegetables that meet the same requirements to be sold as organic vegetables. In general, that is the only advantage of organic seeds. The production is organic. The seed is no better or worse than other seeds . There is a lot of discussion about it. I buy organic seeds or bio seeds when they are available in the type or variety of vegetables that I want to sow. Otherwise I take traditional seeds . Here again, if everyone starts growing their own food, then there is already a lot less ecological footprint. Everyone makes their own choices in this. Moestuinweetjes follows the Organic series of Buzzy Seedsn which is of excellent quality.

Vegetable garden seeds for easy harvesting

Some gardeners adjust the varieties to the harvesting method. Carrots that are too long may be damaged when harvested mechanically. In my vegetable garden I do not take the harvesting method into account. If you are a group gardener and want the children to help harvest, you can think about a variety that is more suited to the 'harvesters'. Children will be able to harvest short 'Paris Market' carrots better than huge carrots .

Carrots Paris Market carrots paris market

Vegetable garden seeds for a specific cultivation method

Of course you adapt your crops to the cultivation you choose. On this site you will find the different cultivations of all popular vegetable types. To stay with carrots : Amsterdamse bak is good for early carrots , Nantes is a good summer carrot and Flakkese and Berlikum there is a late variety. Also with lettuce you have winter and summer varieties.

Vegetable Garden Seeds Against Disease and Pest Susceptibility

Outdoor tomatoes without disease Outdoor tomatoes without disease

Some manufacturers offer varieties that they claim are resistant to certain diseases and harmful insects. For example, you have carrots ' Fly Away ' that are supposed to be resistant to carrot fly or 'Lemon Drop' a tomato that is supposed to be resistant to tomato plague. I try to adjust the growing conditions of my vegetables. I put carrots under an insect screen , tomatoes I put under glass where they do not come into contact with water and therefore do not get sick. Below is a list of vegetable garden seeds , my favorites per crop:

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