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National Gardening
Kathy Bond Borie |
Seed Catalog Savvy Reading between the lines to find the best varieties for your garden...   |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Priming Seeds A new twist to pregermination -- adapted from a technique commercial growers call seed-priming -- offers improved flexibility for gardeners. It offers quick growth similar to that of pregerminated seeds, but the seeds don't need to be planted right away... |
National Gardening
Bruce Butterfield |
Gardeners: Start Your Seeds! Our own "professional" home gardener shares his methods |
National Gardening
Eliot Tozer |
Stars in the Shade: Impatiens America's favorite bedding plant. |
| National Gardening |
Growing Onions As with most vegetables, you can start onions from seed in the garden. But many onions have relatively long growing seasons and onion seeds don't germinate quickly, so it's often better to start the crop another way. You can set out transplants, or you can plant "sets" (half-grown onions). |
National Gardening
Carol Deppe |
Breeding Your Own Squash A guide to plant breeding and seed saving in the squash and pumpkin patch... |
| National Gardening |
Establishing a Wildflower Meadow A how-to guide for planting a wildflower meadow. |
| National Gardening |
Corn: Planting Variations If you like experimenting, there are some variations on the basic planting methods you may want to try. |
| National Gardening |
Shade-Loving Annuals Even if buildings, fences or trees shade your yard, you can still grow magnificent flowers. And the number of annual plants that grow and flower well in the shade is expanding yearly. |
National Gardening
Jack Ruttle |
Soil for Seed Starting Plant seeds in the right soil mix |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Wildflowers for the Holidays It's the holiday season and if you're trying to find the right gift for the gardeners in your family, consider wildflowers. |
| National Gardening |
Seed Potatoes Small seed potatoes can be planted whole, but larger ones should first be cut into pieces with at least one eye or recessed dormant bud. |
National Gardening
Kris Wetherbee |
Sweet Beets For a quick-maturing and nutritious vegetable, you can't beat beets... |
| National Gardening |
Plant Greens in Wide Rows Wide-row planting involves broadcasting seeds in a wide band, thus creating thicker rows with fewer paths in between. Not all vegetables, of course, are meant for wide rows. |
National Gardening
Michael MacCaskey |
Buffalo Grasses from Seed Ideal low maintenance lawn... |
| National Gardening |
Working with Onion Transplants Onion transplants may need special care when first planted in the ground. Here are some techniques to keep in mind. |
National Gardening
Holly Shimizu |
Coneflower This tough and cold-hardy perennial also has health benefits... |
Job Journal
November 16, 2003
Marty Nemko |
Seeds of Success What roses and a job search have in common. |
National Gardening
Cheryl Dorschner |
Starting from Seed Tips from an innovative gardener... |
This Old House
Therese Ciesinski |
Check out These Seeds From Your Local Library Of the roughly 17,000 public libraries across the country, about 350 are now "lending" seeds, up from just a handful 15 years ago. |
National Gardening
Chuck Anderson |
The Begonia Show-Offs No flower is more brilliant in cool shade... |
| National Gardening |
Fall Potato Planting In the South good seed potatoes may not be available for fall planting. Your best bet is to provide your own, even though there's some risk of planting diseased potatoes. |
Science News
August 31, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Golden Blossoms, Pi Flowers Fibonacci numbers (and the golden ratio) come up surprisingly often in nature, from the number of petals in various flowers to the number of scales along a spiral row in a pine cone. How do these numbers and the golden ratio arise? |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Reusing Potting Soil Although not commonly recommended, it is possible to reuse old potting soil for seed starting and transplanting. |
| National Gardening |
Tools for Planting Using the right tools and the proper techniques will not only make planting less of a chore, but also a greater success. |
Science News
September 14, 2002
Janet Raloff |
Afghanistan's Seed Banks Destroyed On Sept. 10, scientists in Kabul reported the loss of Afghanistan's principal agricultural insurance policy: two stores of carefully collected seeds, materials selected to represent the genetic diversity of native crops. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Red Light Tomatoes Phytophthora disease (Phytophthora capsici), known as damping off on seedlings, seedling death, leaf blight, or fruit rot on mature plants, is an annual problem with home and commercial gardeners. Now researchers have a new safe technique to prevent this disease: red light.
a new safe technique to prevent this disease. |
National Gardening
Ben Watson |
Hybrid or Open Pollinated Is one type of vegetable seed better than another? |
The Motley Fool
June 26, 2008
Brian Orelli |
Why Throw Tomatoes at Monsanto? There wasn't a lot to complain about in Monsanto's third-quarter earnings report, but investors found enough disappointing news to send the stock down. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2010
Jim Gorman |
6 Weeks To a Perfect Lawn Once it's started on improved soil, grass needs very little care to look crisp, green, cool and inviting. |
This Old House
Robert Sparkes |
Gone to (hydro) Seed The author gives you the low down on the newest way to grow grass. |
| AskMen.com |
DIY Cigarettes Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars' vegetable garden ? the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants. |
Seasoned Cooking
June 2007
Philip R. Gantt |
Garden Fresh If you have never grown sunflowers, they are very easy to grow and do well in relatively poor soil as well as rich soil... Recipe: Roasted Sunflower Seeds... |
Sports Central
February 8, 2012
Andrew Jones |
Why Murray State Deserves a No. 1 Seed Murray State is 23-0. They have beaten one ranked team (Memphis) and only face one more before the end of the season (Saint Mary's). They currently hold a No. 7 ranking in the USA Today Poll and a No. 9 ranking in the AP poll. |
This Old House
Therese Ciesinsk |
How to Save Seeds You can't return "borrowed" seeds without harvesting and drying them first. All it takes is a few simple steps. |
Sports Central
February 26, 2014
Andrew Jones |
Sorting Out the One Seeds From the Twos As the college basketball season winds down, we're met with questions of bubble teams, road wins, strength of schedule, and my personal favorite debate this time of year: who deserves the number one seeds. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Bottom Heated Flat for Seeds Seeds germinate faster and seedlings grow better when they have heat around their roots. And you can build a simple, heated seed-starting box from scrap materials found around the house. Here's how one gardener did it. |
