Fall is the perfect time to start collecting seeds from your garden. As temperatures drop and plants finish their growing cycle, they naturally produce mature seeds ready for harvest. Why bother with ...

Are you thinking about saving some vegetable seed from crops you have in your garden this year in order to save money spent on seed in 2024? Now is the time to collect them. Self-pollinating ...

Spring is right around the corner, and that means hills, meadows, and green spaces will soon be bursting to life with all ...

Celeste Scott shows how to collect vegetable seeds, and Lucas Holman talks about garlic. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, UT Extension Agent Celeste Scott demonstrates how to ...

I would like to collect seeds to plant next year. How is the best way to do this? J. A. Tulsa It is a great idea to collect and store seeds for future use, but not all plant seeds will produce ...

Growing up in suburban New York City, our house was surrounded by woods of primarily American beech (Fagus grandifolia) and white oak (Quercus alba). And one year it occurred to me that I could ...

AS OUR SUMMER vegetable and flower gardens wind down, it’s a good time to think about which annuals you’d like to grow again next year. These days, a lot of varieties sell out each spring. One way to ...

Open-pollinated seeds, which reproduce naturally through pollination by wind, insects, or other natural means, are ideal for saving like these cosmos. Be sure to label the seeds. (Veronica Lorson ...

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 ...

The Nature Conservancy excels at native plant restoration and ecosystem stewardship on a landscape-wide scale. By creating, extending and conserving native habitat, they provide permanent and ...