i want a garden but now im moving in about a year. should i buy and save seeds or wait? idk how long they last

Question

im moving into an apartment, and i wont have a house for god knows how long.

Answer 1

I think the best way to go is to buy your seeds, some pots, some dirt and some fertilizer. If you don't want plants in your apartment, you can still buy seeds for your garden. If the insects don't start eating them, they will keep for a very long time.

Answer 2

If the seeds are annuals, they will do their thing and die before you move anyway. If they are perrenials, they will keep coming back, and you would have some choices there.

You can donate them, so someone else can enjoy them. Maybe plant them in front of windows at a nursing home

You can just plant them now and enjoy them at your current location. If you own your current house, it won't hurt to have a pretty garden for the next owner. It won't up your property values or anything, unless you do significant landscaping, tilling, etc developing the land to garden...but even if it is just a ready patch of land, or a pretty garden in the yard, it will be a plus, a pleasant little something to include when you show buyer's around.

You could also donate the seeds to a community garden, or a school...that way they don't go bad waiting for a permanent place to live.

The last option you have, is to go ahead and plant them as a container garden. You can enjoy them now, and then keep them in the apartment or on your balcony when you move, when you finally settle into a house with some property, then you can plant them by the side of the house.

Answer 3

if you have room, plant the seeds in containers (sized for your available space & the kind of plant). if you don't have an outdoor space you can get smaller plants/herbs and put them in your window sills.

if not, then i'd wait to buy seeds since you don't know when you would be moving into a bigger space.

Answer 4

Plant your garden in planters that you can take with you. ;-)