Growing plants from seeds is an easy, inexpensive and fun thing to do. When you learn how to start plants from seeds, the variety of plants that you can grow increases dramatically, but not the ...

Germinating seeds in paper towel used to be a popular way to test seeds for viability. But more and more people are using ...

When I teach vegetable gardening, I love to share my favorite way to germinate seeds using a paper towel. Paper towels can be used for any seed that needs to be buried, even just a little bit.

Time-lapse of a trumpet vine germinating and growing from seed to young plant. Seeds were cold-stratification in a moist ...

If you want to get a head start on your garden but don’t want to spend a lot, there are plenty of ways to start seeds indoors using things you already have at home.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – As the gardening season winds down and you pick the season’s last vegetables, let some plants go to seed and harvest them for planting next year. “Saving seed can be really fun and ...

Growing a peach tree from a pit lets you enjoy the fun of raising a tree, even though it won’t match the parent fruit. Starting with a clean, dried pit and giving the seed a cold rest helps it sprout ...

Sunflowers are obviously sun-loving plants and they don’t do well in the cold, so you’ll want to start prepping the soil for planting well after the temperature has stayed above 50 degrees during both ...