Before we get caught up in the flurry of fall, let’s save seeds from plants that we want in our gardens next season. If treated correctly, these seeds will provide us with healthy plants ...

Every year many of our garden plants set masses of ripe seed. Saving some of these offers an easy method of propagation and an ideal way of raising large numbers of plants, absolutely free.

it's good to collect seed from flowers as you see ripe seed heads formed. By ‘ripe’ I mean seed that has had a chance to fully mature (fatten) on the plant, it can then be removed and safely ...

The smooth seeds are used more often to produce the ripe seeds that one uses as dry beans to make split pea soup. Snap peas have low fiber pods that can be snapped and eaten with the immature ...