If you are new to outdoor sowing, it’s worth conducting a soil test to determine what kind of soil you have so that you can ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — For more than 40 years, University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardeners have experimented with growing flowers and veggies from seed to find the most reliable varieties. If you ...

The cleverest tips for all your plant babies to thrive, indoors and outdoors. Whether your thumb is green or brown, we could ...

National Plant a Flower Day is all about celebrating the beauty of flowers. Planting them can also help save pollinators like ...

Attract beneficial insects to your vegetable garden with flowers like cosmos, sweet peas, calendula, marigolds, sunflowers, ...

Tradition, expensive equipment investments, ongoing seed contracts and establishing a rotation between crops are in the mix.

Get a jump on the gardening season by starting vegetable and flower seeds indoors now, says University of Missouri Extension field horticulturist Donna Aufdenberg. “Starting seeds indoors doesn ...

Stock Seed Farms and Prairie Legacy are a few of the Nebraska-based seed companies for flowers. The Omaha Public Library’s common soil seed library includes everything from herbs and vegetables ...

This is when the urge to plant seeds and fill containers with flowers becomes irresistible. But wait a bit. Feel your soil to make sure it is not waterlogged before poking seeds into the ground.

Tips and techniques Everyone can grow flowers from seed. The main thing is to be quite laid-back about it and not worry about doing things exactly by the book. Over the years, I’ve found that ...