As the autumn season progresses, many of our annual and perennial flowers are sporting seed heads or fruit. If you examine the tops of spent flower spikes, you will usually see a nice seed head with ...

Experienced farmers understand that saving seeds from their crops is a proven cost-cutting strategy. By preserving seeds from their most productive or distinctive plants, they ensure a head start for ...

Seed saving can be traced back 30,000 years, when nomadic humans selected cereal grains for the next growing season to encourage a preferred non-shattering trait. It's a simple process that modern ...

Prices of many things have gone up significantly in recent times. One way to combat that, as a gardener, is to start plants by seed.

May is a fantastic time to add plants to flower beds and containers for bright flowering displays. While many gardeners will head to the garden center to pick up some ready-to-go plants, the most cost ...

Saving seeds from the garden is much like passing down a family heirloom: A prized possession lives on from year to year or from generation to generation. In the world of seeds, there are so many ...

Which flower seeds are best? Starting a garden from flower seed is one of the most economical and satisfying hobbies a person can have. Rather than shelling out cash for more expensive, ...

Imagine planting flowers once and then watching them come back year after year like loyal old friends, without replanting, reworking beds, or babysitting seedlings. That’s the magic of self-seeding ...