Some tips for anyone else who's about to get their seed trays and peat pucks out of storage to start this year's produce garden.

Spoilers - the plants suggested to be grown from seed (as opposed to buying a seedling from a garden store) are sunflowers, curcurbits (cucumbers, squash, melons, gourds), snow peas, pole beans, corn, carrots, radishes, and beets.

So basically, if there's anything you're planning to grow that works from a long taproot or has a delicate root system that could be damaged by transplanting, that might be better to grow from seeds. Save your gardening store money for plants that require hardening off before transplanting to really thrive (tomatoes, peppers, rosemary, fruit bushes, etc).

For more information on gardening and the best dates to plant in your local biome, I recommend checking out The Farmer's Almanac and The Old Farmer's Almanac. And if you want some book recs for garden magic or home agriculture in general, I have posts here and here.

Have fun!