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How to Prepare Your Garden for Winter

If you live in cool climates, it’s time to start thinking about closing down your garden for the season. However, there are many things to consider when it comes to preparing your garden for winter. Follow this checklist to put your garden to bed and set yourself up for success in the new year!

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Growing Guides

How to Save Zinnia Seeds

Zinnias are easy to grow, prolific bloomers, a favorite of pollinators, and have a long vase life.

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Stewardship Stories

Memories from SSE’s 50th Anniversary

At Seed Savers Exchange’s 50th Anniversary Celebration and Conference this past August, guests of all ages were invited to step into the hayloft of the barn and take part in one of our most meaningful activities: the 50th Anniversary Scrapbook.

A gardener bends down to harvest Swiss chard leaves in a garden.

How Tos

Tips for Harvesting and Storing Vegetables

Want the highest yields from your vegetable garden? Keep reading to learn some tips for harvesting and storing vegetables to encourage your plants to keep producing fresh food all season long.

Varieties

Easy Heirloom Herbs for Beginners

Whether you have raised beds, window-sill boxes, or are limited to container gardening, here are six herbs that are especially easy for beginners to grow and enjoy.

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How Tos

How to Plant a Fall Garden

For many gardeners, the gardening season dies down in the summer after the spring rush of seed starting and transplanting. However, gardeners can plant many things from July to September for a fall garden with harvests all the way up to winter, especially with changing climates. In fact, fall might just be the most underrated season for gardening!

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Stewardship Stories

Peg Davis: The Tomato Lady

Peg Davis of Snow Spring Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley finds happiness and purpose in growing and stewarding heirloom tomatoes, including ‘Peg O’ My Heart, which she recently donated to Seed Savers Exchange.

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Stewardship Stories

Hope and Practice: Jane Frandsen

Jane Frandsen, Exchange lister, recounts why and how she began saving seeds: ‘Seeds Are Amazing Things.’

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Learn

What to Plant in Your Garden in June

Did you know you can still plant in your garden in June? Odds are good you’ve already transplanted your tomatoes and peppers and harvested lettuce or other greens to serve up fresh for dinner. Yes, your garden has sprung to life, but if you’re interested in more than just weeding and watering, plenty of crops are still ripe for planting in many regions of the United States.

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How Tos

Container Gardening Guide

What can you plant in a container? The better question might be, what can’t you? Vegetables, flowers, herbs—almost any plant can thrive in a container as long as it has the proper soil and care. When land space is unavailable, container gardening provides a viable alternative for you to grow your own food and a beautiful garden.

Hailey Abbey