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Saving Flower Seeds
Many gardeners save their own seeds each year. Some do it to save money, some to preserve genetic diversity, some to hybridize, some do it for fun .... Start saving now!
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Garden Garbage
What to do with unwanted plant flats, pots and seed packets.
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How to Save the Seed From Lettuce Plants
Seed saving is an old art form that is coming back into fashion with the fears of a recession hitting. Learn how to save money while growing your own food
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Keeping Your Distance
Now is a good time to think about saving some seeds for next year.
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Real Seeds For The Garden
Heirloom garden seeds and saving them.
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Saving Herb Seeds
Don't overlook the bounty that can be harvested from herb seeds! How to harvest and store seeds.
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Saving Seeds
Want to save the seed of your favourite flowers and vegetables or are you interested in being a part of preserving our seed heritage or using seeds to fight world hunger? Find out how to save seeds and what to do with them.
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Saving Seeds - Beginner Style
A beginner's guide to saving seeds. There are the basics here, with links to saving seeds of specific types, special seed treatments, and more!
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Seed Saving
Saving seeds of your garden plants is notonly an act of preservation - it's a way to beautify your neighborhood and your own yard!
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Seed Saving
If you are saving seeds for the first time, there are some vegetables that are easier than others to save.
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Seeds for Desert Gardens I
If you like gardening, germinating seeds is a great way to watch your plants grow from seed to adult.
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Seed Saving - Preserving Your Heirlooms
To truly be an heirloom plant, you need to participate in the seed saving and sharing. Here are some tips to get you started.
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Frugal Living Vegetable Gardening
Growing a vegetable garden is a frugal living tip to save money and stretch the home budget. Here are ways to save money when planting a vegetable garden and cooking.
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How to Test Seed Viability
Keep old seeds or throw them out? Are they worth planting? What's the shelf life of seeds? Will seeds you already have still sprout or germinate and grow? Test them!
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The Art of Saving Vegetable Seeds
If you have vegetables grown from heirloom seeds you may be able to save a few for next year instead of buying a whole new batch.
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Heirloom Seed Saving Organizations
Seed saving has become a collaborative effort of gardeners, farmers, the food industry and governments throughout the world. Here are some of the organizations working to help preserve plant diversity.
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How to Get Cheap or Free Seeds for Your Garden
Every frugal gardener knows that growing from seed is the best way to save money in the garden. There are several ways to get cheap or free seeds.
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How to Grow Asparagus from Seed
A welcome delicacy from the spring garden, hardy perennial asparagus grows easily from seed.
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How to Save Heirloom Seeds
Learn how to save seeds from your heirloom vegetables and plants that your grew this year. Saving Heirloom seeds allows you to grow the same ones again next year!
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How To Save The Seed From Tomatoes
Seed saving is a dying art form that can be very easily learned. Learn here how to save the seed from the humble tomato plant.
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How to Save Vegetable Seeds
Learning how to save your own vegetable seeds can be very rewarding. It a great way to save money, as well as producing plants that are perfectly suited to your climate.
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Kitchen Scrap Gardens
Turn kitchen scraps into a bountiful garden. Many common vegetables and herbs produce seeds or root stock that can be turned into next summers crops.
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Saving Heirloom Seeds
If you intend to plant an heirloom vegetable garden, you will certainly want to save your heirloom seeds. To keep heirloom seeds pure, you should have a garden plan...
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Saving Money in the Garden
Growing vegetables is becoming a popular way to cut down on food costs. By following these tips, gardeners can reduce their planting expenses as well.
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Seeds of HOPE (I hope)
Saving seeds, sharing seeds and some worries about the genetically engineered seeds.
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Norway Doomsday Seed Saving Vault
Global Issue: Svalbard Global Seed Saving Vault, dubbed the Doomsday Vault, on a Norwegian island in the Arctic Circle. A Noah's Ark for saving organic garden seeds?
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Ten Fall Garden Chores
Ten seasonal chores for the fall garden. A great fall send-off means a jump on spring -- and maybe an eye-opener or two. Best of all, find out how to get super FREE STUFF!
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USDA SAYS YES TO TERMINATOR
United States Department of Agriculture approves licensing of its seed sterilization technology.
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What is a hybrid?
Hybridizing plants has created revolutionary increases in production during the last century.
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Wintertime Tasks for the Gardener
Wintertime should be anything but a slow time for the gardener. While you're waiting for spring blooms, here are two wintertime tasks that'll get your garden ready for spring. Learn the best ways to store seeds and tender perennials and discover the benefits of composting.
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How To Save and Store Flower Seeds
It's fun and easy to save seeds from your flower garden to plant next year. Learn how to select, collect, harvest and safely store your own flower seeds.
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Seeds, from the beginning.
Seed saving the first step to food security
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The Seed.
Food secuirty begins with the seed.
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Frugal Tips for Veggie Gardening on a Budget
Veggie gardening at home can be thrifty or expensive. These tips will help you grow veggies without spending the earth on gardening products
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Green Tomatoes (and pink and purple and striped...)
Heirloom tomatoes offer the best of taste and variety.
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Lupines!
Why lupins are so good, the ways in which they are pretty (let me count the ways) and also how to grow them, of course.
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Farmageddon: Now Is The Time.
Farmageddon, a review of Brewster Kneen's book
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Heirloom Country Gardens
Horticultural researcher at Rodale Institute Experimental Farm, Sarah Wolfgang Heffner presents a delightful book introducing gardeners to heirloom country gardens.
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Opposition to Genetically Modified Organisms
Critics oppose GMOs for their effects on pesticide use and effectiveness, their relationship to monocultures, their effects on developing nations, and health concerns.
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Storing Seed
A little care when storing your saved seeds will insure they are still viable when you need them, next spring.
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Taking Responsibility Part Two
If your only food shopping choice is a corporate supermarket, be sure to ask questions
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Therapeutic Gardening
Spring is here and there has never been a better time to glean the spiritual and therapeutic benefits of gardening. Learn what plants to choose and get started.
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Vast Horizons For Organic Gardener
Organic gardening is gaining favor at every level of communication. On the news, in magazines, at every type of gardening event, organic gardening is in the focus.
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Vegetable Growing Realities
Growing vegetables should be about more than just necessity. Gardening should be fun for the entire family since even the tiniest family member can be involved.
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What if?
What if you started your own food business?
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5 Veggies with Which to Start an Organic Garden
So, you want to start your own vegetable garden, using the organic method. Some plants respond very well, others do not. These top five are the easiest of the lot.
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A Childs Garden
A child's garden teaches more than just gardening skills: your child will learn math, science & more! Gardening for kids can be easy, educational and fun.
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A Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Moving House
Caring for a garden is a labour of love, and leaving one behind can be a sad occasion. With careful planning, however, a new house means a new garden to cultivate.
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Amaranth: A Grain, Flower and Weed
Tall, with unusual flowers, Amaranth is easy to grow and can be enjoyed for its beauty or eaten for dinner.
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Blue Corn is Source of Many Unique Foods
Blue corn is a unique Native American crop that provides important nutrients in a variety of interesting foods.
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