Seeds cost more every year. Garden centers stack those bright packets near the checkout line like candy, and each spring the cart fills up again. But a thriving garden already holds next year’s supply ...

Prices of many things have gone up significantly in recent times. One way to combat that, as a gardener, is to start plants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Replant your most thriving specimens by saving seeds to sow next year. When you save seeds from a plant that thrived in your ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether you're finishing off the rest of the fruits and vegetables from your seasonal haul or cleaning up your garden and ...

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 ...

For all you zinnia lovers, here's a hack that will give you an endless supply of bright and beautiful gardens for years to come. Dried zinnias are full of seeds, which can leave you with an endless ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you've noticed your sunflowers are starting to droop and look a little less sunny, think about saving the seeds. Each head can contain 1,000 seeds or more. It would be a shame to let them all go to ...

Lois McNamara has been growing wildflowers for more than two decades, but she still remembers the species that endeared her to the hobby: blue larkspur. “My daughter brought me seeds one year and ...