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Collect and save the seeds of plants that are thriving in your garden. Ensure that seeds are developed before harvest. Read a helpful article on seed saving and collecting on RHS.
Social sites like Facebook and Google+ have gardening groups and communities where members swap seeds regularly. Join a few of them, if you like exotic plants join groups in other countries as well, most of them allow people from other countries too. This way you’ll be able to find the seeds plants that are rare and unique.
Also, actively look for people who have a common interest in gardening and growing plants and become friends with them.
If you are associated with local gardeners hosting an exchange party is an exciting idea. Invite those who are interested in and share seeds, cuttings, and newly propagated plants.
Walk into the garden centers, local nurseries and look out for sick plants and ask for them to a manager or worker there. Most of the times you will get them for free or at very cheap cost.
Fruits and vegetables have seeds or pit. Save your favorite seeds from a fully ripe fruit or vegetable and start it in your garden. Squashes, cucumber, peppers, cantaloupe and tomato seeds are best for planting. However, the drawback of this idea is that you will get variable results and surprises– the fruits from such a plant may not be flavorful, or the plant will grow weakly, or you will get a different variety of plant. Also, you’ll have to wait for a long time for fruits to appear!
Also Read: Best Fruits to Grow in Containers
Ask your friends and relatives to save seeds for you, if they’ve some rare and exotic plants in their garden, or ask for cuttings.
Buy fresh herbs. Most of the herbs grow easily from cuttings if they are planted fresh as
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