Best Heirloom Seed Kit for Beginners: Which Kit for Which Space
How to pick a beginner heirloom seed kit by the space you have, the easiest crops for a first garden, what you need besides seeds, and common beginner mistakes.
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Practical planting, growing, and seed-saving help from Gardeners Basics.
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Best Survival Seed Vault Kits: How to Compare Them
How to compare survival seed vault kits: open-pollinated varieties, labeled packets, calorie crops, real seed counts, packaging, shelf-life claims and price per variety, with an honest look at our own...
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Seed Gifts for Gardeners: Kits for Beginners, Cooks and Preppers
Seed gift ideas sorted by who you're buying for and what you want to spend, from a $9.95 herb pack to a 140-packet kit, with what each kit does and...
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Dukat and Mammoth Dill: Choosing for Leaves, Heads and Seed
Choose Dukat or Mammoth Long Island dill for fresh leaves, pickling heads or ripe seed, with packet timing limits and a practical harvest plan.
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Gardeners Basics Recalls Broccoli Sprouting Seeds Due to Possible Salmonella Contamination
Important recall notice for certain Gardeners Basics one-pound broccoli sprouting seed bags. Read the product identification, safety instructions and refund contact information.
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How to Grow Garlic Chives From Seed: Pots, Harvest and Care
Grow garlic chives from seed with practical sowing, container and harvest advice. Learn how to establish young clumps and manage self-seeding.
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How to Grow Chervil From Seed: Sowing, Pots & Harvest
Grow chervil from seed with practical advice on sowing depth, cool-season timing, containers, bolting and harvesting tender leaves.
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How to Grow Winter Thyme From Seed
Winter thyme grows slowly at first, then becomes a compact culinary herb with small aromatic leaves. Its name does not mean it should be sown into frozen soil or that...
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How to Grow Waldmann’s Green Lettuce From Seed
Waldmann’s Green is an upright loose-leaf lettuce with frilled green leaves. It can supply a quick young-leaf harvest or a larger open rosette. Give it cool conditions and regular moisture,...
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How to Grow Triple Curled Parsley From Seed
Triple Curled parsley is a compact-looking herb with tightly crinkled leaves, but it needs the same patient start and generous root room as other parsley. The useful routine is simple:...
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How to Grow Toma Verde Tomatillos From Seed
Toma Verde produces green tomatillos enclosed in papery husks. For a reliable start, raise more than one seedling, move the plants into warm soil, and make room for their branching...
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How to Grow Tom Thumb Lettuce From Seed
Tom Thumb is a miniature butterhead lettuce that fits small beds and containers. Grow it for compact, tender heads rather than a large iceberg-style crop. A little space, shallow sowing...
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