I think you missed to beginning of this discussion. I fly to Maine each year for the summer in the third or fourth week of May. I can’t bring seedlings on the plane. Most Maine gardeners have their seeds starting way before that. Then I’m left with the choices of start seeds late indoors, direct sow, or buy plants that were started at the proper time. Just trying to find good sources for the last option.

Front door is for decor…use the side door to enter the home. My side door actually enters an entry way with a small bathroom, closet, and shoe closet. My front door enters my living room!

Have you experimented with starting your own seeds inside?

Yes, I have. I use seeds and seedings. I just don’t like having to wait until the end of May to start with seeds.

I had a BLM t like that ... many moons ago ... anyone else?

Front door is the trap. Anyone knocking the front door gets ignored.

We graded our driveway around to the back door to make it easier for visitors to find their way in and for unloading groceries.

I always know when it's the Jehova's Witnesses knocking, they're the only ones that go to the front door.

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It’s almost as if many front doors are decorative or not intended for receiving guests?

Bingo. I shovel a path to mine in case of fire or if anyone ever needs to get a gurney inside because I'm old and live alone. But I have a sign asking people to go to the kitchen door because I get all discombobulated if someone misinterprets the open path as some kind of invitation to knock at the front.

I grew up in the County where the front yard is the handiest place to push all the snow from the driveway if you live in town. Front door was always blocked for by a mountain of snow for 6 months a year.

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Have you grown from seedlings before?

Sunset greenhouse in fairfield.

Dig around a little, there’s a path under there, it’s just grown over with grass. We ain’t used it for a while.

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It isn’t just Maine, either, but most small town and rural areas in New England. We never used the front door in my parents’ house in MA except to move furniture because it led directly into the living room and stairs and there was no place to hang coats/remove wet shoes. In my current house in Maine, we actually do use the front door as the main entry, and have a gravel path directly from the driveway but it still feels a little weird to me!

I was more of an WIGY listener.

If you're friend or family, ya come upta the house through the dooryahd. If you're not friend or family, go away.

What kind of horrible monster are you? The front door???

Seriously though, I forgot bottle drives. The kids always knock on the front door for bottle drives. What a pain. Gotta move a laz-z-boy, trip over the dog, get the draft stop and pull that sticky door open just to tell them to come 'round back. Like cmon kids, you know better.

I remember when my parents moved to Maine in 1999 people telling us that nobody in Maine uses the front door, so this is definitely a thing.

And thinking back, never at any point in my childhood or adolescence in Maine do I remember anybody ever ringing our front door bell. Delivery people, political campaigners, friends, acquaintances, plumbers, tree guys, new neighbors introducing themselves — they all come to the side door.

And my parents actually do have a path to the front door from the driveway. They even shovel it, but that's because my dad (who's now lived in Maine nearly 25 years) considers it an emergency fire escape route.

This. Saves a lot of shoveling too. And too hard to re-train to use a different door twice a year.

Nah, stay with the side door where you’ll see it.

We come in through the garage into the kitchen. The only people who knock on the front door don’t know you.

In Maine, sidewalks are only in a few places in a handful of cities. Our house lots are personalized. Most houses aren't built with mud rooms or foyers, so side doors and back doors are frequently used.

Who uses the front door? Come ‘round back, bud, we’re in the kitchen.