Seed collection FAQ
Why collect seeds?
Learning how to properly collect seeds offers you the chance to share interesting plants and species with other gardeners.
Seed Germination Experiments
By: Timothy Braseth
If you're preparing to plant grass seed and want to get it just right the first time, conducting some seed germination experiments will help.
Seed Saving - Saving Your Garden Favorites to Grow Next Year
Seed saving is as old as gardening. There was a time when gardeners considered seed from their favorites plants to be treasures well worth saving from year to year.
Seed Specifics
Fortunately, a Ph.D. in botany or genetics isn't necessary to grow plants successfully from seed.
Seed Starting Outdoors
Seed starting outdoors will show you how planting your garden seeds is exciting as it means that the weather has turned warm, the birds are singing and life is good.
Seed trays:
Seeds should be planted in small containers which have holes at the base to drain off excess water. Plastic cups or seed trays can be used for this purpose.
Seed-Starting Tips
If you want to save money, expand your gardening palette and extend your growing season, there's no better way than to start with seeds.
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Seed Preparation for Organic Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs
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Seed Starting Soil from your Compost Heap
4 parts good compost, sifted to remove leaves and sticks (smell it- it should smell good. Earthy. Sour or acrid is not ready yet.) ...
Seed-starting Lingo
Damping off: This refers to a fungal disease that attacks developing seedlings, causing them to shrivel and die right at soil level. The fungi thrive in stagnant air and high humidity.
Seed Starting
Starting seed indoors can save you money. The number of plants that can be produced with a package of seed is worth the effort, as well as the personal satisfaction that comes with doing it yourself! ...
Seed Sowing
Although you can buy bedding plants in punnets, growing from seed is a good alternative. It's fun, and if you need greater quantities it is of course less expensive.
SEED SOURCE LIST
The following seed companies are offering the 1999 AAS Winners, as of October 1998. The 1999 Winners will be offered by more seed companies than those listed here.
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Seed swapping is a fun way to keep from wasting the extra seeds that you so loving collected. Basically, it amounts to trading vegetable, fruit, or flower seeds with other gardening enthusiasts.
The big disadvantage of outdoor seed sowing is that one sacrifices control over the circumstances under which the seeds will germinate. In an indoor hotbed, or coldframe, conditions of moisture, heat, etc., can be regulated.
Henry Field Seed & Nsry. Co., 407-FG Sycamore St., Shenandoah, Iowa 51602. Free catalog. Gurney Seed & Nsry. Co., Dept. FG, Yankton, S.D. 57078. Free catalog. Inter-State Nsries., Dept. FG, Hamburg, Iowa 51644. Free catalog. Kelly Bros. Nsries, Inc.
Stratification - Oftentimes when someone refers to stratification, they are referring to the process of cold treating a seed in order to break its dormancy.
Seed Starting Made Easy
Growing plants from seed is lots of fun and rewarding for all ages. (Best of all, it's not that difficult!) Learn the tips to successful seed starting and begin turning your thumb that deep shade of green.
Seed propagation
When sowing seed it's important to use the right sort of compost. Seed compost is low in nutrients.
Seed_drill
A narrow groove for sowing seeds into, made in a prepared seedbed with the corner of a hoe, rake or trowel, or pressed in with a straight cane.
Seed Savers Exchange
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Seeds of Change
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Seed Sowing and Saving: Step-by-Step Techniques for Collecting and Growing More Than 100 Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs
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The Seed Coat of a Snapdragon
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Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) produce spikes of colorful blooms on plants that may range in size from 6 inches to 4 feet high.
Sod vs. Seed
Time and money should be considered when choosing a new lawn
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seed coat
The outer protective covering of a seed.
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Onion seed should be planted as soon as the soil can be worked, depending on spring weather. For the Denver metro area, mid- to late March is best, but onions can be planted until late April, depending on the variety.
Sowing seed when making a lawn is likely result in patchy stands of grass unless it is done systematically. See how best to do this below.
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Prepare the seed
Whether you're planting indoors or out, it's a good idea to break or soften the hard seed coat before planting.
Choose grass seed that matches your site. If the spot receives less than 6 hours of direct sun a day, choose a shade-tolerant mix that includes tall fescue or fine-leaf fescue. For more information, see Choosing Lawn Grasses in the Lawn Care Library.
Lippia from seed or cuttings ?
Hi,
I heard recently that you can grow Lippia from seed. How do you you grow it and where can I get some seed from. I live in a desert area of Western Australia and I was wanting to use it as a lawn replacement.
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Caring for a seed lawn.
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Grow Oregano from seed. Get an early start on this popular herb by starting it indoors as a houseplant. Or, directly sow seeds into your garden in the spring.
Growing Pansy Plants from Seed
For spring planting, sow your seeds indoors in late winter 8-10 weeks before planting outdoors.
For a fall crop for over wintering where winters are mild, sow seed in late summer for planting out in early fall.
Issue 72 Starting Lisianthus From Seed
Lisianthus can be a challenge to start from seed because it's very sensitive to temperatures over 75 degrees.
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Seed Sowing and Watering. Follow the planting depth recommended by your seed packets.
Seed storage
Store seeds in a small mason jar,vacumn seal bags or air tight plastic bag with a silica gel packet . If you don't have silica gel use dry powdered milk wrapped in a coffee filter.
Seed Catalog Savvy
by Kathy Bond Borie
Long before the soil warms and frost ceases its nightly visits, spring takes root in the minds of gardeners.
Seed Starting and Springing Ahead
Many of us in the Northern Hemisphere are rapidly approaching that last straw part of winter, looking for a little sun and some springtime cheer to warm our hearts, minds and bodies.
Seed Feed
To keep seedlings healthy and growing feed them gelatin. Any flavor is okay as long as it's sweetened with sugar - not artificial sweeteners. The gelatin contains the nutrient nitrogen, which helps plants form green leaves.
Seed Viability (Years)
Not generally planted from seed -- generally planted from cuttings or grafted stock.
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Seed Coat- The outer protective covering of a seed.
Species- A fundamental category of classification ranking below a genus.
Stratification- The chilling of seeds to improve germination.
Seed Packet: An expensive envelope with a pretty picture containing 99.9% air.
Vigorous Grower: A plant with a demented compulsion to take over the neighborhood.
Wildflowers: Invasive weeds with sexy names.
Seed hulls (cocoa, rice) Easy to spread, often weed-free, but rather slow to decay and susceptible to erosion.
Seed Leaves - Many plants' first set of leaves do not look like the leaves of a mature plant. These first set of leaves are called.seed leaves.
Seed - An adapted feature of terrestial plants in which an embryo with food is stored and a protected casing.
Self seed - Referring to a plant that regenerates itself by dropping its own seeds. Characteristics of annuals. Synonym of self sow.
Seed-Plant embryo with associated stored food encased in a protective seed coat.
Seed piece-Portion of a potato tuber containing at least one eye that is planted to produce a new potato plant.
Seed tree- The cutting method that describes the silvicultural system in which the dominant feature is the removal of all trees except for a small number of seed bearers left singly or in small groups, ...
seed piece. Portion of a potato tuber containing at least one eye that is planted to produce a new potato plant.
seedcotton. Harvested lint that is still attached to seeds; i.e., the lint before ginning.
Seed Pods The hardened protective shell that contains the maturing seeds of a plant.
Self To cross a plant with its own flowers or one of identical type; said of flowers of one color as opposed to a bicolor.
Seed Saving
Seed Saving 101, tips and how-to for seed saver beginners.
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seed leaf See cotyledon.
seedling A young plant, shortly after germination.
How seed savvy are you?
By Anja Sonnenberg
Seeds come in hundreds of different shapes and sizes, but they all have the same purpose-to reproduce.
Pod seed - a dry calyx containing a mature or maturing seed.
Pot-bound - bound, stifled or inhibited from normal growth, by the confines of a container: Root systems become pot bound.
Self Seed: Plants releasing seeds spontaneously which grow into new plants.
Semi-Ripe Cutting: A cutting from wood that is half ripened.
Sepals: These form the calyx and are the green petal like covering of the flowerbud before it opens.
Grass seed
Grass seed mixtures are available to suit different situations and uses. There are mixtures for shady or dry sites, hard-wearing mixtures for family lawns or fine-grass mixtures to give a ‘bowling green' effect.
Peony Seed Harvesting When is the best time to collect seeds from a peony plant?
What is the best method?
Doug says that fall or late summer is the best time. You'll see ...
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