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 ...

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 ...

Sure, errors happen, or the operator (me) uses seeds that a too old, which is frustrating because time is lost and a do-over ...

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 ...

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.

How long can seeds be stored? It's a question that anyone who's learned how to sow seeds successfully will likely have wondered, because having a plentiful supply of free seeds is the easiest way ...

Cereal plants have to be planted every year and at the end of the summer, when they have produced ripe seeds, they die down. Like all seeds, cereals are very nutritious because they contain all ...