The post 13 Flowers You Can Direct Sow in July is by Melissa Strauss and appeared first on Epic Gardening, the best urban gardening, hydroponic gardening, and aquaponic gardening blog. It's July, and ...

Despite dipping temperatures, November is an excellent time to dig your spade into those end-of-year gardening jobs before the first frost arrives — including sowing seeds for beautiful blooms next ...

The post 11 Flowers to Direct Sow in May is by Katherine Rowe and appeared first on Epic Gardening, the best urban gardening, hydroponic gardening, and aquaponic gardening blog. May brings warming ...

It's the simplest kind of gardening: Plant some seeds and watch the flowers grow. And now that the soil has warmed up, there are plenty of bright annuals you can sow right outside in the garden.

There are many ways to grow a plant from seed, but planting outdoors — also known as direct sowing — can often be overlooked or seem too daunting. Gardeners often start their seeds indoors, where ...

This spring, I’m trying a method of growing flowers that is new to me, but it dates back to the 16th century. It’s called direct seeding, or direct sowing. Vegetable gardeners are familiar with this ...

Last January, a Master Gardening column featured a story about winter sowing seeds. While I found the concept intriguing, I was convinced that sowing seeds indoors under lights on heat mats four to ...

Welcome to our weekly podcast with longtime Anchorage Daily News garden writer and author Jeff Lowenfels and co-host Jonathan White. Think of it as a companion to Jeff’s weekly columns and his popular ...

This month you should be sowing seeds for two distinct groups of plants. If you have been following the practice of multiple sowings to spread out the harvest over a longer period rather than one big ...

You might think I have a fixation for bright, yellow-flowering, invasive plants, as this week’s topic is sow thistle. Actually, there are three versions: common sow ...

While most gardeners start seeds in spring, winter sowing can allow you to plant vegetable, herb, and flower seeds a whole lot earlier. Not only does winter sowing extend the growing season and ...