seed saving

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Garden Seeds, Fruits and Flowers to Watch for Now

    Many garden plants are already setting seed, which come in infinite shapes, sizes and textures. Want to know when to harvest? What to leave and for how long? What to…

  • Display of several seeds on a wooden board
    How-To

    Seed Saving Made Simple

    For most of today’s gardeners, the growing season begins with a spring seed catalog. But for those who save seeds from year to year, the next growing season begins as…

  • Article

    Welcome Fall–Celebrate the Autumnal Equinox

    It's that time of year again already--the summer has come and gone--and today we celebrate the official arrival of autumn. There is still lots to do in the garden...

  • Collecting seeds
    How-To

    Collecting and Storing Seeds

    When I was new to ­gardening, I depended upon the kindness of friends and strangers to help fill my beds. Unfortunately, I was too green to realize what treasures I…

  • How-To

    Make Your Own Seed Packets

    Save and share your favorites with this easy-to-follow template

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Catalog Review: Sow True Seeds

    Sow True Seed offers over 400 varieties of untreated, heirloom, open pollinated/non-hybrid, traditional and certified organic vegetable, herb and flower seeds.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Saving Squash Seed

    People have saved squash seeds for hundreds of years. Read about one technique we use to process squash seeds at Seed Savers Exchange and different methods that have been used…

  • How-To

    Saving Titan sunflower seeds

    A Baseball players guide to eating and saving sunflower seeds.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Saving Heirloom Tomato Seeds

    Learn how easy it is to eat your tomatoes and save them too!