We are in west Michigan and it is pretty cold here. Our kitchen and dining room floor has a south facing slider but a tile floor. I try every few years to start my own plants, even use lights and a heating pad but they just grow and are weak. Easier to buy young veg plants. But the lavender I will try sprouting. I didn’t know they are like 8 kinds of lavender but the english is definitely the one I want.
I try every year,too, but it usually doesn’t work so well, but now that we are in NH, where it is far sunnier and we have a more sheltered porch that’s easier to put plants on, I’m trying again.
Hope springs eternal......
I have a tomato that I LOVE for sauce and have only found the seeds at one place so always have to start them myself. I still manage to get a decent crop out of them.
This year I want to plant more flowering perennials around the place so bought seeds for daisies, purple coneflower, black-eyed susans, and painted daisies.
They will take care of reseeding themselves after this year, but for now, it’s going to be far cheaper to start from seed than buy the number of plants I want to grow.