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Where can I find free vegetable seeds?

I want to try to start my own veggie garden! I have a pot of basil and some pinto beans but I want to try more things. I want to save money buy doing it myself. Anybody know in places in Atlanta GA that give them away for free or cheap? Money is a little tight at this time.

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Buy the veggies you want- eat the veggies, keep the seeds.
Most everything that you buy in way of vegetables, or fruits have seeds inside.. Save, dry, and store till your able to plant or use them. Saves money.. keep in dry place so that they don't mold.
Yes, you can just save the seeds from vegetables that you buy to eat, but it's a bit more complicated than that. You'll need to buy reasonably local veg as a lot of veg is air freighted and just won't grow well in totally different conditions than it had on the other side of the world where it grew. Also some veg is grown from F1 seed, where the seeds don't necessarily produce fruit that's anything like the fruit it came from. Pumpkins often do this, but you might get some interesting fruit anyway (just not quite what you expected!). Courgette seed can be dried and saved, tomatoes grow well from saved seed, and many other things. Grow more of what works than you need and then you'll probably be able to swap seedlings with other gardeners so you get more variety. Have fun!
This makes the third attempt I've made at answering your question. Power outages and super-slow service providing. Using seeds from store bought produce will yield you NOTHING. It's all GM produce, unless you bought from the "organic" selections and even then there's no guarantee. Much of the "organic" produce has been "contaminated" with GM cross-breeding. Thank your local politicians. You'll get signs of growth & healthy looking foliage but the actual veggie wil never amount to anything more than a dead-end. Spend the extra dollar or 2 for "heritage seed". You don't need a lot. One packet of almost any selection will yield you at least 3 years worth of whatever you want ... and you can save the seeds from that produce to yield further produce. Or go market garden and save the seed from that. I don't know any market gardens that plant anything other than the real deal. E-mail me. Power is likely to go out again before I can submit this.
For very cheap seeds try your local dollar stores, hardware stores and even WalMart. They usually have packages with lower seed counts for 10 cents each. These contain seeds in a 'sample' size portion. I buy them for new varieties to see if I like them enough to grow every year. I bought some of their kohlrabi seeds a couple of years ago and the seed count, although much lower than the full packet, provided more than enough for my small garden. I had over 150 plants for 10 cents and a little labor on my part. Turns out the variety was a good choice and is now one of my standard planting varieties. I'm trying a straw bale garden this summer and will buy mostly these packets for the experiment, if they have the varieties I want to try. Good luck and enjoy!
.."someones NOT eating their veggies".. Yeah..."can ya' dig it"/
In my country the government give free seeds to the public. Why not try to get info at the nearest government office. You can also ask your neighbors, friend and family members to save seeds for you in exchange for a share in the vegetables that you'll grow. That's if you have a good relationship with them. http://www.quick-and-easy-vegetable-garden.com/vegetable-garden-seeds.html