How to Save Seeds from Your Garden for Next Year

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How to Save Seeds from Your Garden for Next Year

Since I began growing all of my edible crops from seed, learning how to save seeds for next year has become more important than before. It’s one of the easiest ways to make your vegetable garden more self-sufficient, and if you keep records of your garden’s performance each year, it also enables you to learn more about how plants may behave differently when grown from seed, especially if you’re saving seeds from fruit or vegetables you’ve bought from a store or farmer’s market.

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DIY Seed-Starting Mixes: Which Ones Work and Which to Skip

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DIY Seed-Starting Mixes: Which Ones Work and Which to Skip

It’s seed shopping season, and if you’re like me, you’ve been leafing through garden catalogs and dreaming about your spring garden. Although it’s still miserably cold this time of year where I live, winter is the perfect season for garden planning, including figuring out which seeds you can safely start indoors now. Starting seeds indoors is one of the most satisfying parts of gardening, until your seedlings flop over, stall out, or never germinate at all. A lot of that frustration comes down to the “soil” you used, because seed-starting media is less about feeding plants and more about managing moisture, oxygen, and cleanliness.

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How to Successfully Germinate Seeds Indoors and Outdoors

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How to Successfully Germinate Seeds Indoors and Outdoors

In this blog, we will share some hands-on tips for seed germination indoors and outdoors. We will also talk about a method you might not know about for easily growing plants from seed: the Kratky method. Using these methods, you can grow healthier seedlings that turn into healthy plants.

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