What’s the Difference Between Heirloom Seeds, Hybrid Seeds, and GMOs?
The differences between heirloom and hybrid seeds and plants can be quite confusing for new gardeners. What are the pros and cons of each?
How to Save the Most Common Garden Seeds
Saving seeds of most garden vegetables and fruit is pretty easy. It just requires a little patience and a sacrifice of one or two of your best tomatoes, peppers, melons, squash, or other crops for the seed harvest.
How to Test The Viability of Garden Seeds
Not sure how old that packet of seeds is? Use this simple test to learn if your garden seeds are still viable.
How Long Can I Save Garden Seeds?
Some vegetable and herb seeds can be saved for up to 6 years while others will last only 1-2 years. Storing them under proper conditions is key.
Growing Tomatoes Part 2: Watering, Harvesting, and Saving Seed
Best practices for growing tomatoes, including pruning, watering and saving tomato seeds.
Open-Pollinated Seeds (OP) vs Hybrid Seeds (F1) – Which Side Are You On?
I hadn’t realized there was such argument about which seeds I should plant in my garden – open pollinated heirlooms or hybrids.
