If Tycoon is your favorite tomato variety, you have probably heard by now that the company that produces it is no longer going to produce the seed. Tycoon is a hybrid that is produced each year by ...

When you buy new seeds at the store, they often come from large companies that treat their crops with pesticides and other hazardous chemicals. Saving seeds from your own produce each year is a more ...

I grow tomatoes every summer. For most, I collect the seed to use to start plants next spring. I do buy a hybrid variety of cherry tomato, so I do not collect the seeds from it — I just head down to ...

What can be more fun than collecting seeds from some of your favorite flowers and vegetables to share with others or to store and plant for next year’s harvest and/or enjoyment. For centuries various ...

Generations of Indigenous peoples worldwide worked for thousands of years with wild plants to produce the foods that sustain us today. Seed is the first link in the food chain, a 10,000-year-old ...

Q: Many of the flowers in my yard are starting to dry up and form seeds. Can I collect these and save them to plant next year? A: Yes you can collect and save many of the seed that grow in your yard ...

Collecting seeds from summer-flowering plants in October is a quick and easy task that gets you seeds to grow next year for more plants. When the temperature and light levels drop in fall, preparing ...

For some gardeners, fall marks the start of another gardening cycle – saving seeds produced by the plants you nurtured all season. It’s a frugal way to obtain new plants and a tradition we should try ...

Celeste Scott shows how to collect vegetable seeds, and Lucas Holman talks about garlic. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, UT Extension Agent Celeste Scott demonstrates how to ...

I would like to collect seeds to plant next year. How is the best way to do this? J. A. Tulsa It is a great idea to collect and store seeds for future use, but not all plant seeds will produce ...