Starting seeds indoors can feel daunting if you’ve never done it before, especially when pre-started seedlings are readily available at your local garden center. However, it’s relatively ...

As the chill of winter settles in, many gardeners feel their outdoor spaces lose their vibrancy and life. However, the cold season is the perfect time to get a head start on your gardening projects by ...

Starting your own plants from seeds can save a lot of money and give you way more choice than you’ll find at plant-buying time... even in the biggest garden centers. When you start your own seeds ...

Someone who lives outside Napa County recently asked me about my favorite vegetable to grow. My first, immediate answer was lettuce. It’s not that lettuce is my favorite vegetable, but for Bay Area ...

Spring is coming and it's a great time to consider starting a few flower or vegetable plants from seed inside of your house. Timing is the most important element when it comes to starting plants from ...

For more than two decades, Nadia has been a copywriter, editor, and translator for digital and print in a variety of industries. Her passions and areas of expertise are food and gardening. She has ...

For many vegetable gardeners, this is perhaps the best season of the year—seed catalog season! Since the first week of January, colorful seed catalogs have begun to appear in my mailbox just as links ...

Soaking seeds before planting them mimics the favorable growing conditions after a spring rain. Water is what wakes up many types of seeds and tells them it’s the right time to sprout. So do you need ...

When the milder weather of April arrives in Greater Columbus, vegetable gardeners get the itch to start planting something just as soon as weather and soil conditions allow. Cool-season vegetables ...

What is better, starting seeds vs buying plants for the garden? Learn which crops to start from seeds and which can be transplanted right into the ground. Economically, seeds are generally the best ...

Starting seeds indoors before spring gives you a head start on the growing season and increases your chances of a healthy, productive garden. The key to success is providing the right environment: ...

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – Now that we’ve shown you how to build a home garden, it’s time to plant. There are several vegetables you can start growing right now. We picked ones we can harvest for our ...