As a gardener, I have grown plants in my garden that I want to reproduce because they have performed well and have attracted many pollinators. While some plants are easier to divide with a shovel, ...
When flower blooms begin to fade, hunt for tiny treasures in the garden. Save a fistful of money and earn even more satisfaction by collecting seeds from plants. Seeds from petunias, snapdragons, ...
Gather seed while ye may—dispersal is in high gear this time of year. Everything that bloomed over summer has been pollinated, causing seeds to form within the flower ovary. As the dry winds of fall ...
Turn off the grow lights, gather a few milk jugs and potting mix and start planting seeds. Winter sowing is a way to start transplants from seeds outdoors without a greenhouse or cold frame. You’ll ...
It’s nearly spring and time to trade seed catalog browsing for outdoor gardening. To help folks prepare for their annual venture into gardening, April Painter, Rodale Experimental Farms estate ...
Gypsophilia, also known as baby's breath, is a hardy perennial producing masses of small white or pink flowers on tall stems in summer and autumn. To collect seed cut the stems as they begin to dry, ...
Roman Gonzalez is the creator of the urban gardening blog MrBrownThumb, founder of the Chicago Seed Library, and a co-founder of One Seed Chicago. Summer is prime seed saving season for me. I collect ...
Turn off the grow lights, gather a few milk jugs and potting mix, and start planting seeds. Winter sowing is a way to start transplants from seeds outdoors without a greenhouse or cold frame. You’ll ...