As the summer progresses and your plants move through their life cycles, you may reach a point where you have new space opening up in your garden but no plants to transplant into it. This can be a wonderful opportunity to try your hand at direct seeding.
Direct seeding, or direct sowing, means planting seeds directly into the garden bed rather than transplanting small plants that you've either purchased or seeded indoors at an earlier time.
Many varieties of both flowers and vegetables can be direct seeded, often at any point in the growing season. In fact, some plants don't respond well to the shock of being transplanted and will actually grow much better if seeded exactly where they will be grown. This is especially true of plants that have long tap roots, such as carrots. Other examples include beans, parsnips, peas, radishes, lettuce, beets, and dill.
