that's so true Minni, I told you already maybe, and like a nonna I'll repeat, there was a man selling plants seed packets and vegs at the market, I went there with my children asking for french haricots(??) very early in spring and he kept telling me "No sta vè premure di deventà vece!" do not hurry to become old  

the best tomatoes were the last sown, last year

I know exactly what you mean.  I have always brought tomato plants, but this year my sunshine wanted to grow them from seed.  So although they aren't as big as the ones I would buy in a nursery I think they will taste better for the love they were planted with!

When we had a big garden we lived up in the mountains so the seasons tended to be cold for longer, I used to have a table in the house next to a sunny window and start the seeds off in trays there, then plant out when the frosts stopped. We always had wonderful fruit and veg from that garden even with the short growing season.

I guess where ever there is a will there is some way of doing it.  You should keep up with the seeds they are so rewarding.

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We grow all our veg from seed, we bring them on at home and then plant them out in the veggie planting area in our field when they have started to sprout. It can take a little time but its so so worth it. Alot of seed can go straight in the ground but we do do it this way with the ones that cant. 

we keep growing from seeds and the originals were once gathered by my deceised grandpa, continued by granny and then my mom took over. like cucumbers. that particular sort of cucumbers has by fact died out. it is my granny cucumber now.