Saving seeds can save you money, as well as ensuring that your favorite varieties are available to you next season.
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Coneflower seed saving tips you should know

Saving flower seeds is a simple way to keep your garden growing each year. With proper harvesting and storage, seed from plants like coneflowers and echinacea can be reused for healthy future blooms.
Gardening is more than digging dirt and watering plants—it’s a masterclass in patience, strategy, and a little bit of magic. Imagine the thrill of growing vegetables, flowers, and herbs from seeds you ...
After blooming in summer and early fall, black-eyed Susan flowers will fade, turn brown, and become dry and crispy. At that ...
Collecting seeds from your own garden feels like bottling summer sunshine, packaging it up, and setting it aside for a new season of growth. But when fall begins to settle in and leaves start ...
Choose seeds from the most vigorous plants in the garden, inspecting them carefully to ensure that they are healthy.
It’s always a bit sad to see our summer vegetable gardens peter out as the season comes to a close. Those once-verdant plants are now fading as the long, hot summer takes its toll. Though harvests of ...
A free community chat with Marie Saretsky, an expert gardener in the region, is happening at the Humboldt and District Museum on Wednesday, September 16th at 7 p.m. The event's discussion will be ...
An internationally recognized floral designer and a renowned horticulturist dedicated to preserving heirloom seed will headline the 2025 Fall Seminar sponsored by the St. Tammany Master Gardener ...