Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the depths of winter, looking through a seed catalog is the gardener’s equivalent of planning a summer vacation—a chance to ...

Along with the yearly perusing of catalogs comes the annual tradition of sifting through my seed stash, organizing what I have. And part of that, for some reason, leads into swapping seeds with other ...

The holidays don’t have to be all tinsel, cookies, and crowded stores—they can also smell like soil, sound like laughter, and feel like the promise of spring tucked neatly into tiny envelopes. When ...

Question: I started a winter squash plant indoors in early April. The first seed came up April 8. I set them outside May 17, then covered each nightly until we had warmer nights. On July 16, all the ...

As I recall, there used to be a decent interval between the new year and the time when the seed racks started to appear in hardware stores. If you wanted to get a jump on the season, or merely to ...

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 ...

The best place to keep vegetable seed packets is in the refrigerator where they are preserved and stored away from rodents and insects. But this habit comes at a price. I have several dozen half-used ...

Through the second week of June, Ragini Sundaram’s day was longer than usual. Around 9 p.m., after the household chores were done, she would settle down to making “seed envelopes” to be dispatched by ...

Zachary Paige, local growers and volunteers save and share Minnesota-tested seed varieties while building community around ...