The satisfaction of watching your tiny shoots push out of the ground after weeks of waiting is one of the best parts of gardening—unless your seeds don’t germinate as evenly as you’d like. Some of ...

Did you know some seeds need the cold before sprouting? There are many herbs, flowers, and tree seeds that need it.

A little seed, water, and patience–that’s all you need to grow your own alfalfa sprouts. These delicate sprouts are ...

While our elementary school science classes may have taught us the basics about seeds and how to plant them, if you’ve gotten into gardening as an adult, you’ve probably figured out that there’s ...

The first thing my city friends asked when I told them I had bought a 19th-century farmhouse on several acres was, "what are you going to do with all that land?" The idea of owning acreage is alien to ...

No sun? No rain? No dirt? No problem. Sprouts can do without. All it takes is a jar and a week to get baby radishes, broccoli, and other sprouts to pile on a salad, stuff a sandwich, and garnish some ...

Most seeds sprout fairly easily. Just tamp them into a potting mix, keep them damp, and within a week or two, baby plants are up and ready to go under lights inside until the coast is clear outside.

Mumm’s Sprouting Seeds is recalling its “Sprouting Seeds” brand broccoli seeds because of possible Salmonella contamination. Consumers, retailers, distributors and manufacturers should not use, ...