Try these easy tests to check if your old seeds are worth planting or if you should buy new ones.

This week, we made our list of seeds we wanted for the upcoming gardening season and placed our first seed order. Before placing our order, we went through our stash of old seeds leftover from the ...

Now that the holiday season is behind us, gardeners can focus their attention on planning this year’s garden. If you’re like me, you’ve had a steady stream of catalogs arriving in your mailbox. Now is ...

Question: Will the vegetable seeds I had left over from last year grow if I plant them in my garden this spring, or do I have to buy all new seeds? How long do vegetable seeds usually last? I even ...

To sprout into vigorous seedlings like these, seeds kept in storage must maintain viability, which is dependent on a variety of factors. To sprout into vigorous seedlings like these, seeds kept in ...

Vegetable seed viability depends a lot on the environment the seeds are stored in as well as the type of vegetable. There are some amazing stories of seeds that are several centuries old sprouting and ...

If you save seeds, you might wonder whether those from last year are still viable. A quick and easy preseason seed germination test can answer that question. Much depends on how the seeds were ...

Q: What is the best way to store leftover vegetable seeds? A: If you have a small vegetable garden, you often don’t use all the seeds in a packet, but you don’t have to throw the remaining seeds away.

Candling is a technique people have used for centuries to determine if bird eggs are fertilized. Basically, it involves holding a flashlight up to an egg in a dark room. If the egg is opaque, the ...

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