BIOCARVE - Discount on seeds

BIOCARVE is running an offer on their website - a flat 10% off on all products. Apply Code OVDLF to avail 10% Discount on all Flower Seeds and Vegetable Seeds on www.biocarve.com. 

The only catch is that there is a fixed standard shipping fee of Rs. 75. But it is offset by reasonably low priced seeds for vegetables. The other positive is the categorization of vegetables into those that are ideal for summer(like Bitter Gourd, Bottle Gourd, Capsicum, Cucumber, Okra, Long Melon etc.) versus those that can be grown in winter(Beans, Brinjal, Peas, carrot, Cabbage, Broccoli, etc.). The site also sells Gardening Tools and Manure.

The site features their seed processing facility equipment. Overall, an impressive website with a variety of reasonably priced  vegetable and flower seeds.

A nice website for buying seeds online

Here's a nice website that offers seeds online at very genuine prices. And the site is:

plantsmans.com

The site provides a variety of flower and vegetable seeds. Some interesting categories include "Indian" variety seeds and "English" ones. 
In the vegetable category, we have seeds of beans, lady's finger, Bitter Gourd, Bottle Gourd, Varieties of Brinjal, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Chilly, Coriander, Cucumber, Musk Melon, Onion, Peas, Radish, Palak, Tomatoes and turnip. 

The site has come up with some interesting offerings - amazing deals on combo packs that have been conveniently categorized as:

• Summer Kitchen Garden Kit
• Winter Kitchen Garden Kit
• Summer Flower Seed Kit
• Winter Flower Seed Kit

We get close to 130grams of seeds spanning about 10-12 crop varieties for a mere Rs. 99. 

IndiaGardening Strongly recommends www.plantsmans.com as a great destination for buying seeds online.

Making your own seeds

Interesting - isn't it. It took me quite some while to realize that making seeds is easier than making Plants! Yes, you heard me right. That's because the time and effort required to make seeds is quite less. 

Now that I've captured your interest, let me tell you how exactly to "make" your own seeds. The procedure is quite simple. 

Take the vegetables like lady's finger/ beans/ double beans/ drum sticks/ peas etc. that contain the green seeds in them, and put them in a polythene bag. Ensure that the vegetable is dry. Put this polythene bag in a refrigerator and forget it, (I mean it) for about 1 week's time. After a week, open the bag and observe that the vegetable has got fully dehydrated(lost all water/ moisture) and has become dry. Carefully open the outer cover of the vegetable and lo - what you have in front of you are seeds - those beautiful things which can now go into your garden and with adequate care will sprout into beautiful plants.

You can also use this dehydration method to remove moisture from potatoes and other vegetables before making fried chips out of them - this way, they are crispier and consume very less oil.

Buying Seeds Online - I can help you

I have received quite a few requests from the blog visitors from India to send them seeds, especially in small quantities, just sufficient for home gardening as most online sites are willing to sell only in bulk. I am willing to provide you seeds for fruits, flowers and vegetables even for transactions less than Rs. 100. Of course, in addition to the cost of seeds, there will be a postal/ courier charge. The only issue is how to receive payments. I am scouting Paypal as some friends suggested that it has low transaction charges. Very soon, I will set it up and put a post regarding the same. Meanwhile, if you have any views/ suggestions, please let me know.