For all you zinnia lovers, here's a hack that will give you an endless supply of bright and beautiful gardens for years to come. Dried zinnias are full of seeds, which can leave you with an endless ...

Seeds cost more every year. Garden centers stack those bright packets near the checkout line like candy, and each spring the cart fills up again. But a thriving garden already holds next year’s supply ...

As the autumn season progresses, many of our annual and perennial flowers are sporting seed heads or fruit. If you examine the tops of spent flower spikes, you will usually see a nice seed head with ...

AS OUR SUMMER vegetable and flower gardens wind down, it’s a good time to think about which annuals you’d like to grow again next year. These days, a lot of varieties sell out each spring. One way to ...

Seed saving can be as easy or elaborate as you want to make it. By saving your own seed you can cut costs, preserve that special variety you love. You can also maintain the seed quality and adaptation ...

As the summer winds down, if not the temperatures, it’s time for those of us who collect seed to start making plans and purchasing any needed supplies. What is now seen as a fun gardening hobby has ...

Saving seeds from vegetable and ornamental plants allows gardeners the ability to preserve "desirable" traits, ensure availability of favorite plant (vegetable or ornamental) varieties, and save money ...

One becomes hundreds becomes thousands. And on a recent weekday, as dusk settled and autumn fell in, a group gathered in search of them: seeds. Round, rust-colored rose mallow seeds, fluff-ended ...