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Saving seeds for next year's crop

Here is a list of eight easy seeds to save and plant next season. They include tomatoes, peppers, beans, lettuce, peas, cucumbers, spinach and onions. Those are simple to save because they are ...
If you can buy seeds online or in a store, why would anyone want to save seeds from their garden? Would they even grow? Oregon State University Extension gives three reasons to save seed. First, some ...
The abundance from summer vegetable gardens is extended through the winter and beyond by methods of canning, freezing and drying. But you can also give your summer vegetables a longer life span by ...
The other day I finally put my garden to bed. While I ripped out the skeletons of tomatoes and tucked away eggplant cages for ...
Over the years, Will Bonsall’s seed saving operation has been in flux. At one point, it included up to 5,000 different varieties of peas, potatoes and countless other crops that gardeners and farmers ...
Saving seeds from vegetable and ornamental plants allows gardeners the ability to preserve "desirable" traits, ensure availability of favorite plant (vegetable or ornamental) varieties, and save money ...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, loggers clear-cut pines in Minnesota’s North Woods—but some remain, thanks to a mapping error. A surveying slipup 140 years ago ...