It's already time to start your garden. By starting seeds indoors now and next month, you can increase the variety of plants you can grow in your garden by extending the growing season and potentially ...

Spring is in full swing in April for most gardeners. You may have already started some vegetables that grow well in cooler weather or have long maturity times. But, depending on where you garden, ...

Most seeds should not be started in the winter. Here, gardening experts explain which crops and annual flowers you should ...

Seed starting, without the stress.

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 ...

Gardener sowing seeds in the ground - Susumu Yoshioka/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While purchasing seedlings from your local nursery is a good way to get a ...

There's one problem with the multisyllabic terms used in botany: They leave the impression that growing a plant from seed is akin to conducting a lab experiment. To take some of the mystique out of ...

Before you order seeds from the glossy catalogs promising abundance, check out my list of easy versus not easy at all plants to start from seed! Annual flower seeds first: Not many can be successfully ...

Over the next few weeks, gardeners everywhere will take on the challenge of starting their own seeds. Whether it’s sowing seeds of your favorite heirloom tomato variety, planting herb seeds, or ...