watermelon, squash, beans, lettuce, carrots), while others must be started indoors. (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, etc). Seeds that do not transplant well should be sown. directly into the garden beds and are labeled in the planting guide as âdirect seed.â To plant.
A pioneer species is a species that is first to establish itself in an area where nothing is growing-or in an area that has been devastated by fire,flood, plowing etc. These s â¦ pecies are usually annuals, disappearing after the second year when perennials take over.
Since some uncolonized land may have thin, poor quality soils with few nutrients, pioneer species are often hardy plants with adaptations such as long roots, root nodes containing nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and leaves that employ transpiration.