Germination can be frustrating: you might have just invested a pretty penny in some seeds, waited a long time for them in the mail or gone to some great lengths to acquire them one way or another.

Key Points Light rain after planting helps seeds germinate, but excessive rain can cause rotting or displacement.Protect ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seedlings in cardboard cups - Darrya/Getty Images Epsom salt, or magnesium sulfate, has a long history of use in gardens to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trays of strawberry seedlings are ready to be planted. - Sergey Dudikov/Shutterstock While plenty of gardeners opt to just buy ...

Nothing tests a gardener’s patience quite like staring at a patch of dirt that refuses to do anything exciting. Some seeds crawl out of the ground at a snail’s pace, while others burst into action so ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Cool temperatures over the past three weeks have slowed the germination and establishment of perennial ryegrass used for divot repair. Pre-germinating the seed can jump start this process. Although ...

Each spring, I prefer to start most of my vegetables from seed selected from numerous seed catalogues. I personally enjoy growing several varieties of tomatoes and peppers that are not locally ...