Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

Growing carrots from seed is something even beginning gardeners can do successfully. And homegrown carrots come in an assortment of fantastic colors—orange, purple, red, yellow, and white—and ...

Q: I’ve been starting our own marigolds indoors from seed each year, because they are so easy to grow and they do well in the flowerbeds on the south side of our house where it gets hot.

Every spring, many backyard gardeners make their pilgrimage to the local feed store or nursery to purchase their onion sets. These baby bulbs — while very convenient for simply transplanting int ...

“I have great faith in a seed. Convince me you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” A plant growing from seed — that sometimes tiny bit of dust whether nestled on the ...

Lemon Gem is an heirloom marigold with neat, mound-shaped plants that are perfect for the edges of flowerbeds or in containers.