Starting your own plants from seeds can save a lot of money and give you way more choice than you’ll find at plant-buying time... even in the biggest garden centers. When you start your own seeds ...

Are you reading seed catalogs and dreaming of what to grow in your spring garden? Starting flowers and vegetables from seeds is a good way to save money and give your garden a head start. An indoor ...

CORVALLIS — While you’re battling the winter blues, make your own seed-starting mix and plan for the gardening days ahead. Home gardeners can start vegetable and flower seedlings indoors from four to ...

Starting seeds indoors is an essential skill for gardeners. Whether planting flower seeds or working on this year’s vegetable garden, there are several good reasons to begin inside rather than outside ...

Starting plants from seed can make vegetable gardening both less expensive and more interesting. “You can buy seeds for a much wider range of plant varieties than garden centers sell as transplants,” ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- How do you get a jump start on your garden, by growing seedlings indoors? Reader Mark from Sheffield Lake writes that he’s tired of increasing prices to buy seedlings at nurseries ...

Soaking seeds before planting them mimics the favorable growing conditions after a spring rain. Water is what wakes up many types of seeds and tells them it’s the right time to sprout. So do you need ...

Use sterile, well-draining seed starting mix to prevent disease issues that can affect germination rates. Jenkins emphasizes ...

Create a homemade seed starting mix and get waterwise gardening tips Randy Battle shares gardening tips including how to use a colander to prepare soil for seed starting and when to water plants to ...

This winter reminds me of the winter of 1991. There was almost no rain all winter. But then, on the vernal equinox, the skies opened and it rained for days. By the rain-year’s end, we had received ...

In starting your seeds, you will need to take into account the date they should be planted outdoors as well as their "crop time" — the number of weeks it takes to get from sowing to planting.

In early 2024, the gardening world was rocked—not by the kind of snails that munch your lettuce, but by a viral sensation: the "Seed Snail." Unlike its slow-moving namesakes, this gardening hack raced ...