How to Store Seeds
Protect your finds and ensure your seeds are viable when the planting time is right with proper seed storage.
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Everything You Need to Know About Radishes
Radishes are wonderfully diverse with many different colors, shapes and sizes! Spring and summer varieties can be pink, red, white, golden, or purple. They can be shaped like bulbs, be more elongated like fingers, or even taper like carrots.
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How to plant tomato and pepper transplants
Two of the most popular crops to start indoors and transplant out are peppers and tomatoes. These tips will help ensure that you will have healthy, happy plants after you introduce them to the great outdoors.
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How to Grow Potatoes
Here are a few tips from SSE’s gardening crew on how to grow potatoes for a healthy and bountiful harvest.
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Tomatillo Isolation Requirements – Setting the Record Straight
One crop that is constantly misunderstood among seed savers is tomatillos. Tomatillos are outcrossers, meaning that their flowers cross-pollinate and are incapable of self-pollination.
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Garden Trellis Ideas
Maximize space in your garden with trellises. Some crop types—like cucumbers, tomatoes, and pole beans—need the extra support a trellis can provide, and others, like melons and squash, don’t require trellises but can benefit from being lifted off of the ground. When fruits are suspended from a trellis and kept from the soil surface, they are less prone to disease, and going vertical means that plants can grow vertically instead of sprawling, opening up some garden real estate on which to plant other crops.
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Seed the Future: Grow Something Good
Access Recordings 2023 Virtual Conference – Originally held July 21-22, 2023 The 43rd annual Seed Savers Exchange conference was an exciting weekend with presentations from Dr. Vandana Shiva, world-renowned activist;…
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Gardening & Seed Saving Terms
Use this list of terms to expand your knowledge and understanding of seed saving and gardening. The following definitions are drawn from The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving, edited by Lee Buttala and Shanyn Siegel and published by Seed Savers Exchange.
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