Growing vegetables means making some important decisions. Deciding what, where, and how to grow crops can be key to success and top harvests, which includes whether to direct sow or transplant ...

There’s something quietly thrilling about planting a seed. You press it into the soil, water it in, and then you wait. For a ...

Seed varies quite considerably in size and the summer veggies with large seeds are easier to handle, and can be sown in individual holes, which makes spacing between plants easier as well. Just one ...

In Connecticut, late winter is the time to start many cold-weather crops indoors, so they’re strong and ready to move outside ...

While most gardeners start seeds in spring, winter sowing can allow you to plant vegetable, herb, and flower seeds a whole lot earlier. Not only does winter sowing extend the growing season and ...

Planting seeds sounds straightforward and, frankly, it should be: Buy a seed, plant it, add water and watch it grow. Germination rate: A number, usually expressed as a percentage, that correlates to ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Get a headstart on your springtime harvest with indoor seed sowing now. Aside from the right tools, you'll also need the right kinds of fruit seeds to plant.

In my yard the dark red stems of the peonies are tall and reaching for the sun, my Eastern Redbud trees are turning color, and the tall orange daylilies that have grown here forever still threaten to ...

Better Homes and Gardens' Graham Ross shares how to create a stunning meadow garden this autumn using Mr. Fothergill's seed shaker boxes.