If you plan to save seed from more than one variety, be sure to label seeds clearly throughout the process. If you plan to save seed from more than one variety, be sure to label seeds clearly ...

Many flowers are generous seed producers. Marigolds, zinnias, cosmos, sunflowers, and coneflowers are great choices. Let ...

Another great aspect of harvest season is that it’s the time of year when most plantsgo to seed, thus ensuring a strong new crop for the following spring. Those of you with food gardens have probably ...

When new gardeners begin thinking about saving vegetable seeds for the future, the tomato is one of the first plants that comes to mind. Tomatoes are easy to grow anywhere, and their seeds have a ...

Saving seeds doesn’t just stretch the gardening budget. It allows gardeners to carry forward the very traits that worked so ...

After seed starting, or at the end of the growing season, many gardeners find themselves with partially full seed packets. Do not throw these seeds away, as most will last more than a year after the ...

Generations of Indigenous peoples worldwide worked for thousands of years with wild plants to produce the foods that sustain us today. Seed is the first link in the food chain, a 10,000-year-old ...