Replant your most thriving specimens by saving seeds to sow next year. When you save seeds from a plant that thrived in your garden, its descendants can continue to shine in your landscape for years ...
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 ...
Seed saving is an ancient tradition you can do at home with many plants and vegetables. But proper storage is essential, or ...
Starting a garden can be one of the most rewarding experiences for both novice and intermediate gardeners alike.
Anytime is a good time to save seeds. Seed savings is a sustainable agricultural practice vital to human food production for thousands of years. Seed saving is collecting, storing, and replanting ...
Collecting and saving seeds is a fun and economical way to grow your garden year after year. Gardens everywhere are withering as the days shorten and cooler weather sets in. Foliage begins to droop, ...
The seeds from most fruit trees may not produce the special characteristics you're expecting because of genetic variability due to insect pollination. Plants grown from the seeds of flowers that are ...
If you love the flowers in your garden but don’t love the idea of spending money on new ones, why not save their seeds to plant next year? To maximize the odds that new plants will grow true to their ...
Now is the time to think about growing some plants and saving seeds to grow in the garden year after year. In our display garden at the OPC, we grow several varieties of flowers that reseed, and next ...
Pick sunflower seeds when heads droop, turn yellow-brown, and petals fall—usually late summer. Cut heads with stem, dry upside down indoors, then rub seeds out once dry. Roast plain seeds 5–7 mins at ...
If you've never saved seeds you might like to try. For a few thousand years, gardeners have been saving seeds from year to year to grow their vegetables. Compared to flower seeds, vegetable seeds are ...