5 Veggies You Should Never Grow From Seed

Published 2024-07-29
Are you a beginner gardener looking to avoid common pitfalls? In this video, we'll dive into the top 5 veggies you should never grow from seed and why! 🌱🔍 Whether you're trying to save time, money, or just avoid frustration, this guide is packed with practical advice and crucial lessons for a successful garden.

🥦 Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction: Why some veggies shouldn't be grown from seed
00:35 - Avocados: Why growing from seed is a gamble
01:52 - The truth about grafting vs. growing from seed
02:58 - When propagation is better than seeds
05:05 - Berries That Propagate Themselves
07:27 - The Few Times You Should Buy Seedlings
08:32 - Asparagus: Why it's worth buying bare-root crowns
10:58 - Artichokes: When to opt for nursery stock instead of seeds
Discover why starting these veggies from seed might not be the best choice and how to make smarter decisions for your garden. 💡🌿

🛠️ Gardening Tips Covered:
Avoiding common seed-starting mistakes
Understanding grafting and propagation
Saving time and resources with established plants
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All Comments (21)
  • @iara_pimenta
    I totally understand the thing with time but it is so fun to see the little tiny bits of leaves coming out of the seeds!!! They are just like babies!!! They are sooooo cute!!! 😍
  • @Tocchito.8908
    My grampa planted avocado from seed years ago and we still enjoy avocados from that same seed. Its edible, its just it takes years for it to fruit. Just start planting and youll enjoy the fruit of your labor❤
  • for strawberries, get a variety of everberrying plant (just one) and throw it in a large pot. it'll throw out runners that you can either individually pot or just firmly push into the soil in the pot and you'll end up with 10+ plants at the end of the season. its how i started a large strawberry patch.
  • All solid advice, I'd like to add my 2c tho. Having grown up on a subsistence farm and still actively garden now. Almost 2/3rds of my crops are heritage seeds. As in, passed down from my Gparents, thru my parents, and now onto me. Some of the crops we have have drifted from original source, both good and bad ways. The key is to have many sources of seed banks, in our case our whole family. If i have a bad tasting garlic harvest, i send out notice and my brother sends seeds. We mix the blood so to say, to keep the genetics strong. Every year I eat my crops i love the idea that this exact same plant (tho grandchild of x amount of times) kept my gparents alive during the first great depression, my parents during the Regan years, and myself now. I intend to pass this down to my kids and hope to see these seeds feed my grandkids one day. Ofc each house seed bank has some changes in it too. I got alot of cool newer style tomato's and stuff that my brothers dont and vice versa. The original bank my gparents had was some odd 25 different plants. I got over 75 in my vault at this time.. i may or may not be a homesteading nut :p
  • @Ckawauchi35
    My sister in CA planted an avocado seed in-ground more than 10 years ago and the tree has been a proliferous producer of good-tasting avocados for so many yrs now. It must have been luck. I have two little avocado trees growing fr my old compost corner now and it's just fun to see them grow. I guess I will have to kill them soon bc I don't want to invest in anything with no guarantee of reward. PS. lol, I changed my mind. I am in the Sonoran Desert and it is a challenge to grow avocados here. I think I will let the little trees grow to see if they will make it to maturity. They are growing under the protection of a mesquite tree so I want to see how they can get acclimated and develop into mature trees.
  • @ausfoodgarden
    Ahh! Ok, you mean the avocado seed will not produce true to type. I had my rant fingers ready to type.😊 I managed to grow a decent avocado that fruited well from a seed. Small but tasty fruit. I guess I won the plant lottery. All the rest, I agree with you 100% Nice video. Cheers! Oh, and subscribed.
  • @klm20079
    The title isn't about gardening, It's dont do this if you want fast and good veggies/fruits.. I let garlic/unions seed just plant so much you just harvest part and let some get mature, more seeds / beter seeds and strong veggies than if buy. The lemon is one most people dont dare from seed only with enough space to forget
  • @neilsmall6518
    I live in the Caribbean and we have grown our avocado from seed. Also citrus can grow true to type from seed you just have to know what to look for
  • @mariakasstan
    If nobody started fruiting trees from seed, they would no longer discover the GOOD different varieties varieties that can improve the gene pool of a species and make it more resistant. Remember the banana disease that has sent growers scrambling to find resistent varieties that are also tasty. This could happen with any fruit varieties because there are millions of clones and grafts of only a few individual plants. I have started trees from seed and my only regret is that I may not live long enough to try all their fruits. I realize that space may be an issue when devoting a big chunk of a small garden to a tree that might never feed you but it is possible to get lucky too and the satisfaction and gratitude one feels is worth having had a few misses.
  • @bobmiller2281
    Actually a few of the popular varieties of Avocado were taken from trees started in peoples back yards in San Diego County. When the Panama Canal opened people taking cruises through the canal ate guacamole, fell in love with it and brought seeds home to plant out. Not only did that bring in a lot of genetic diversity for flavor, it also produced some trees that had more cold tolerance. Some crossed with seedlings of the Mexican types bringing in even more cold tolerance into the gene pool. Don’t be a Debbie Downer. There is nothing wrong with people enjoying the process of growing trees from seeds. If the fruit doesn’t turn out to be a winner you can always top work them with whatever varieties you want. I have a very productive Pinkerton Avocado that originated as a seedling in a Hass grove in Oxnard Ca. If your point is only that a Hass seed will give a tree with different genetics than its mother tree than yes you are correct.
  • @MaddieLullaby
    When you said and everyone knows you can't grow citrus from seeds I was like... ??? 😅 I am currently growing two lemon trees from seeds! Do you recommend grafting or propagating? I also have a meyer lemon that I got from bunnings that I could take a cutting from and put in the ground. Where do you get a root stock from or can I use the little lemon tree I grew from seed and graft onto it?
  • Citrus from seed can give you a clone if it spouts more than 1 tree.. Very common in Citrus the strongest 1 is usually the clone but not always
  • @xanden1
    New sub. Where are you from? Aussie?
  • @lksf9820
    I'm thinking someone doesn't know the difference between fruit and veg. Also, bought asparagus crowns are 1yr old, so the difference to sown seed ones is a year. You can buy a packet of 150 seeds for £$2.50, you couldn't buy one crown for that.