Growing garden seeds is an absorbing and exciting part of gardening

Growing your own garden seeds will fill your garden with unusual, exotic and colorful plants you won't find in your local garden center or retail shop.

Growing your own plants and flowers from seed means you can quickly and easily fill an empty or dull garden with color, interest and excitement. 

Start sowing in spring and by summer your garden will be full to overflowing with plants that have cost you very little money and not much time. 

Growing from seeds means you can have as many or as few plants as you like. Sow just a few garden seeds if you've a small space or just want to plant up a few containers for added color.  

If you want a mass of color and have a large space to fill then growing your plants from garden seeds is the best and cheapest way to go. You simply prepare the ground, sow the seeds, tend them regularly by keeping weeds away and watering when necessary and enjoy the show a few weeks later. 

By growing your garden plants from seeds you can choose to grow unusual and rare plants that your neighbors won't have and that are difficult to find in garden centers. 

Sowing your own seeds and raising plants is also a fun way to get children interested in gardening and gardens. Provide them with their own small patch of ground in a sunny, sheltered spot. Give them a couple of packets of easy to grow garden seeds, sunflowers are perfect, show them what to do and let them get growing. That's how my dad got me started and I've never stopped. Growing your own plants from seeds is very addictive! 

Growing vegetables from seeds is also becoming much more popular. You can grow your own organic food that's healthy and tasty and much fresher than the supermarket. Also you know what went into the food you're eating when you grow your own vegetables from seeds. 

Once you've tried growing your own garden seeds you'll want to keep doing it. You'll spend the winter browsing through seed catalogs looking for something new and different to grow. And you'll find yourself really looking forward to the new growing season and the excitement of raising your own garden plants from seeds.