Choose seeds that have been packaged for fresh sprouts. Food grade seeds have been tested for salmonella and E. coli. You can ...

Most seeds sprout fairly easily. Just tamp them into a potting mix, keep them damp, and within a week or two, baby plants are up and ready to go under lights inside until the coast is clear outside.

Did you know some seeds need the cold before sprouting? There are many herbs, flowers, and tree seeds that need it.

Did you know some seeds like, and even need, the cold before sprouting? Seeds can have various types of dormancy requirements ...

The satisfaction of watching your tiny shoots push out of the ground after weeks of waiting is one of the best parts of gardening—unless your seeds don’t germinate as evenly as you’d like. Some of ...

Sprouting grains and seeds is easy and fun. The health benefits are well worth the extra work. You can sprout wheat berries, barley, buckwheat, alfalfa, sesame seeds, and flax seeds, to name a few.

It is so hot outside that I had trouble coming up with a topic for this week’s article! I just saw my outside thermometer and it read 108 degrees! That is too hot for me to be outside gardening. So, I ...

Seasonal Affective Disorder, better known as SAD, is the type of depression that comes with the change of seasons. The gray days of January and February in Michigan are prime time for attacks of these ...

Frank Telewski led the Beal research team in 2021. Last month, a team of plant biologists dug up a bottle of seeds on Michigan State University's campus buried by botanist, W.J. Beal, in 1879 and ...