Starting seeds indoors before spring gives you a head start on the growing season and increases your chances of a healthy, ...

For many home growers, gardeners, and farmers, spring is a busy time in the gardening year. In the period running up to and immediately after the last frost date in your area, you might be sowing a ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

In this video, I give you my best five seed sowing and seedling growing tips in trays or containers for planting out into the ...

For new gardeners, the hardest part of gardening is getting seeds to germinate, and grow. Some varieties of seeds that require special treatment, such as chill periods and/or scarification, can be ...

There's one problem with the multisyllabic terms used in botany: They leave the impression that growing a plant from seed is akin to conducting a lab experiment. To take some of the mystique out of ...

Sowing flowers in late winter is a fantastic way to get beautiful blooms come summer. It is an enjoyable and budget-friendly ...

You may think that your garden is now closed until spring, but you can still be sowing seeds in January and February in preparation for a rich harvest later in the year. “These months offer an ...