In the depths of winter, looking through a seed catalog is the gardener’s equivalent of planning a summer vacation—a chance to fantasize about warmer days ahead. What's even more fun is getting the ...

Transform milk jugs, soda bottles and other items into mini-grow chambers to start some of your favorite and hard to find ...

Growing your own herbs and veggies is a great way to eat smart by controlling what goes on your dinner table. Since you get to decide what kind of soil mix, fertilizer, compost, pest control, etc. to ...

Low light isn’t the only concern when starting seeds in January. Also consider the size of your indoor growing area and how ...

For many vegetable gardeners, this is perhaps the best season of the year—seed catalog season! Since the first week of January, colorful seed catalogs have begun to appear in my mailbox just as links ...

CHICAGO – Starting vegetable seeds at home can be rewarding in many ways: It's cheap. You can find a much wider range of varieties in seed packets than you can as plants in garden centers in spring.

Gardening is a wonderful way to grow your own food and create a beautiful landscape. Much of the information you need to know can be found on plant tags and seed packets. Understanding this ...

Growing plants directly from seed is cost efficient and gives you complete control of the entire growing process. But all the information packed on such a tiny envelope can be confusing. Let’s ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — The Berkeley County Library System is helping set spring in motion by allowing library card holders access to a catalog of seed packets for growing their own personal ...

StarkFresh’s Seed Library provides fruit and vegetable seed packets at no cost to anyone in Stark County interested in growing food in their home garden. This year’s seeds are now available at ...

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 ...