CORVALLIS — While you’re battling the winter blues, make your own seed-starting mix and plan for the gardening days ahead. Home gardeners can start vegetable and flower seedlings indoors from four to ...

If you’re planning to start seeds indoors this season, you likely know you’ll need a growing medium (packaged, sterile seed-starting mix is ideal), a sunny windowsill or grow lights and, of course, ...

This beginner-friendly guide explains how to start a vegetable garden with indirect and direct seed-sowing methods. Homegrown ...

Soaking seeds before planting them mimics the favorable growing conditions after a spring rain. Water is what wakes up many types of seeds and tells them it’s the right time to sprout. So do you need ...

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When winter arrives and the garden beds are resting, it can be tempting to shove seeds and tools into a corner and forget ...