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Whether you have vegetable seeds left over in the seed packets you bought for this year’s garden or you saved seeds from your favorite cut flowers or heirloom tomatoes, storing seeds properly is key.

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Extend the shelf-life of your seeds with these simple tips. After planting seeds in spring, many gardeners are left with lots of half-filled packets of vegetable, herb, and flower seeds, but there’s ...

If you’re planning to start seeds indoors this season, you likely know you’ll need a growing medium (packaged, sterile seed-starting mix is ideal), a sunny windowsill or grow lights and, of course, ...

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Not Sieving Out The Plant Bits Or Chaff Before Storage Not all plant seeds come off easily and may entail quite a bit of debris, including seed casings and fruit pulp. This chaff can readily absorb ...

Saving seeds from vegetable and ornamental plants allows gardeners the ability to preserve "desirable" traits, ensure availability of favorite plant (vegetable or ornamental) varieties, and save money ...

After planting seeds in spring, many gardeners are left with lots of half-filled packets of vegetable, herb, and flower seeds, but there’s no reason to throw those old seeds in the trash. Most seeds ...