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Originally Posted by bilderburger w/cheese
seeds are a great idea, but does anyone (lance?) have any suggestions as which seeds to buy with respect to:
(a) the nutritional spectrum (vitamins, minerals, etc.) of what we need as humans
(b) best yield (per seed-- i.e., best bang for your buck)
(c) easiest to care (least concern)
do organically grown and conventional seeds (but not GM seed) really have any difference? if you grow a conventional seed and treat it organically, does that make the fruit/vegetable organic when ripe?
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To be honest, everything you grow from seed yourself will have far more nutritional value than even organically purchased food,
nothing is fresher than picked from home and eaten that day.
even if you buy the best seeds in the world, if your soil is poor, so will be your yield, plenty of organic material in the soil and avoid any artificial fertilizers.
man made fertilizers will get rid of worms from the soil.
remember to make a compost area to recycle the vegie scraps, avoid onion and citrus from the compost as worms really don't like the acids from them.
A very good practice is called permiculture which teaches the basics of companion planting (planting one plant next to another to keep pests away)
If I had a little more time I would post more information.
Experience: over 25 years in horticulture.
even started a little herb garden from cut herbs from the supermarket
