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DO NOT GROW PLANTS FROM COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE PRODUCE!!! They are diseased af, will ruin your garden. Get some seed packs. You can reuse seeds from your own garden just fine.
What about like, the plants I get from the local community college ag fair plant sale?
They're probably fine.
That is a much better option than seed packs from a corporation. Libraries often have seed sharing programs for free, but you have to get them early, by planting season it's often over already for some reason.
Getting seed packs doesn't mean they will be good seeds though. It's best to find good heirloom seeds for the region, and you need to know if they've been cold stratified or not, for northern plants.
I've had great success with commercial hybrids and local landraces. Heirlooms are the next step up in taste and expertise required, sure, but they are not an absolute requirement for growing produce that stands head and shoulder above what you can buy in a store.
What diseases?
bacterial canker, bacterial spot, black rot, mosaic‑type viruses in beans, etc
What's your view of composting kitchen waste and using it in vegetable garden? That would contain same disease vectors?
No gardener puts obviously diseased plant material in the compost, for one. Unless you're hot composting, the environment isn't going to kill pathogens. So, no composting leaves with powdery mildew. For everything else, go right ahead. If it's not obviously diseased, the composting process should take care of whatever minimal pathogenic load there was.
How would those carry-over from the seeds?
The seeds are in the infected produce. They contain the spores/pathogens. The plant grown from the seed will have a much higher chance of developing the disease. It will then spread to other plants.
Thanks!