How to Save Seeds Instead of Buying New Packets

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 ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Kitchen Shrink: Going Nuts Over Seeds — Part 2

When I was growing up, chia pets were all the rage. As a gag for my Sweet 16 birthday, one of my friends gave me a kitschy chia dog that magically grew a luxurious “fur” coat after I placed hundreds ...
Inhabitat

Seed-Saving Part 2: Storing Beans, Squash, and Other Large Seeds

With all of the pies, muffins, and preserves that are being created this season (not to mention the pumpkins that’ll be carved a few months from now), there will be an extraordinary windfall of seeds ...
PBS

Indoor Seed Starting Part Two

Let's Grow Stuff is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin. Funding for Let’s Grow Stuff is provided by American Transmission Company, Ganshert Nursery and Landscapes, Willy ...
Inhabitat

Seed-Saving 101: How to harvest and store herb, tomato, and berry seeds

Another great aspect of harvest season is that it’s the time of year when most plantsgo to seed, thus ensuring a strong new crop for the following spring. Those of you with food gardens have probably ...