Every gardener’s worst nightmare is damping off. It’s a quiet affliction that often appears out of nowhere: one minute your seedlings will be fine, and the next they’ll be on the ground. And at that point, there’s no saving them....
March is just around the corner, and spring planting is surely on your mind (when is it not?) You might be planning your summer garden already and organizing your seeds, so they’re ready to plant. But what if you didn’t...
Everyone’s favorite gardening task is sowing small seeds (we’re kidding). Maybe the last time you went to sow tiny seeds you ended up bending over seed trays for what felt like hours, straining your eyes and developing an annoying crick...
One of the great joys of gardening is getting to try out new-to-you varieties that you won’t find at your local grocery store. Purple bell peppers, sweet banana peppers, red-hot Thai chili peppers—with well over one hundred different varieties of...
Peppers–especially hot peppers and chiles–have a bad rap for being difficult to start from seed, but that doesn’t have to be the case. There’s no reason you can’t grow your own peppers from seed, even if you’re just getting started...
Do you ever get overwhelmed when buying seeds? There are so many varieties to choose from, and deciphering so many product descriptions can make things all the more confusing. Heirloom, hybrid, open-pollinated, GMO, organic, treated and untreated—what does it all...
Curate an all-star garden lineup with these delicious and productive tomato seeds. It’s that time of year again–time to pore over seed catalogs and decide on what varieties of tomatoes you’re going to grow in your garden this season. Whether...
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