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

Seed saving connects a gardener more closely to a plant’s life cycle. It’s also a way to disconnect from corporations that copyright seed varieties, often limiting plant diversity. Saved heritage ...

ANGUS STEWART: One of my most satisfying pastimes in gardening is collecting native plant seed, but there is nothing more frustrating than arriving a day or two too late and finding that the seed pods ...

Generations of Indigenous peoples worldwide worked for thousands of years with wild plants to produce the foods that sustain us today. Seed is the first link in the food chain, a 10,000-year-old ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Casual visitors at Woolsey Wet Prairie walk mowed trails to admire wildflowers and native plants that flourish there. Volunteers with Project Wingspan wade into the thick of it, up to ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Now is the time to collect walnut and butternut seeds for planting this fall ...

The post How to Collect and Save Hollyhock Seeds is by Katherine Rowe and appeared first on Epic Gardening, the best urban gardening, hydroponic gardening, and aquaponic gardening blog. Hollyhocks ...

Although summer is almost over, there’s still plenty of time this fall to take a hike and get outdoors. But while you’re hiking, you could be helping collect the seeds for future Minnesota forests.

A NEW way to protect and nurture wild flower meadows is being promoted by the National Trust in Wales. A new machine – the first of its kind owned by the trust in Wales – is being used to collect ...