Sure, it’s easy to pick up a few “six packs” of tomatoes and marigolds at the garden center. But why do that, when you can have …
More for less.
Even after you figure the cost of seed-starting supplies, growing your own transplants is still cheap. At the garden center, a flat of 36 petunias, for instance, will cost you about $12, but a packet of 100 seeds costs only $2 or so.