By Darcy Logan
If you want a more sustainable garden, or if you simply want to learn how to grow your own variety of vegetables, then you need to learn how to save vegetable seeds. Vegetable seeds, once harvested, will be viable for several years if they are stored properly. Learn some basic guidelines about how to save seeds as well as how to harvest seeds from tomatoes, beans, peas, lettuce and peppers. While ...
By David Lessem
Most plants need nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous and traces of other minerals from the soil in order to thrive. Particularly in the spring, plants need to use nitrogen to grow new blooms. Although all these elements are naturally present in the soil, their proportion varies. Plants grown in poor soil will grow sluggishly and may not bloom or seed well. To combat this, many growers apply...