In the depths of winter, looking through a seed catalog is the gardener’s equivalent of planning a summer vacation—a chance to fantasize about warmer days ahead. What's even more fun is getting the ...

Design your own seed packets for sharing or selling treasured heirloom seeds. Creating personalized seed packets can add a unique touch when gifting seeds. Learn how one reader made customized packets ...

Growing plants from seed is a rewarding experience, not to mention a low-cost way to end up with oodles of plants. But if you're just looking at the front of the packet when you shop, you may be ...

Depending on where you store them and what types of seeds they contain, your old, dog-eared seed packets may or may not be worth using this season. Seeds are alive, but they do not live forever.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the rush to get planting, it’s easy for gardeners to be seduced by a beautiful photo or illustration on the front of a seed packet. Instead of judging a ...

Depending on where you store them and what types of seeds they contain, your old, dog-eared seed packets may or may not be worth using this season. Seeds are alive; they do not live forever.

Growing plants directly from seed is cost efficient and gives you complete control of the entire growing process. But all the information packed on such a tiny envelope can be confusing. Let’s ...

You know the saying, “April showers, bring May flowers.” Well, I say get a jump on the flowers and make your own floral birdhouse out of seed packets. These can be packets that you have around the ...

Depending on where you store them and what types of seeds they contain, your old, dog-eared seed packets may or may not be worth using this season. Seeds are alive; they do not live forever.

The gardening cycle has been thrown off the rails in Debbie Ricigliano's Howard County, Md., vegetable garden in past years. Shrubs are blooming earlier, cherry buds are opening in the fall and flower ...

I was looking over my leftover packets of seed and noticed the following stamped on the packets: packed for 2022, sell by 2022-10-31. Does this mean that these seeds will have expired by planting time ...