Where To Buy Plants In Bangalore?

What plants, seeds, vegetable plants, fruit plants do you buy to plant for the spring/summer?

• Do you plant by seed? Do you buy the plants from the store to plant in your garden? Do you buy online? What is your price range that you are willing to spend per plant? Thank you for your answers.

• Answer:

  Due to its location in the Great Plains and its distance from both mountains and oceans, the city you have listed on your profile has a humid continental climate, USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 4. This type of climate is distinguished by four very distinct seasons and great variation in temperatures over very short periods of time. As there are no nearby mountain ranges or bodies of water to ameliorate the climatic conditions, you are exposed to numerous weather systems including bitterly cold Arctic high pressure systems leading to long, cold, and snowy winters. In sharp contrast, summers are often warm to hot and often quite humid with frequent thunderstorms. Although warm weather normally ends soon after Labour Day, a few warm days can, on rare occasions, be seen as late as October. As you are in Zone 4, I would buy plants except for lettuce, carrots, beets which germinate quickly. When you are buying the seeds, look for the number of days listed on the packet. I buy potatoes to plant when the weather is warm enough. I buy corn, peas, beans, kohl rabi, tomatoes, etc when the nursery is selling good sized plants. If possible, buy the plants from the nursery where they were started. If you buy plants from WalMart or similar store, you do not know how stressed the plants may be from their long journey from the nursery. The employees at the nursery are very helpful and will answer any questions you will have. You can find garden catalogues, such as Vesey's http://www.veseys.com/ca/en/store/vegetables?veseys=iit63uo7d0i8icisijcvi850g7 on line to help you with descriptions so that you can choose the seeds that you want. Remember to plant bee balm or other plant that bees love to attract the bees for pollination and for their beauty.