Have no facility whatsoever when it comes to gardening. In fact, plants cower when they see me. But thankfully, there's help from Jessica Damiano, a master gardener who writes the newsletter "Weekly ...

Depending on where you store them and what types of seeds they contain, your old, dog-eared seed packets may or may not be worth using this season. Seeds are alive, but they do not live forever.

Fall is an excellent time to harvest and preserve seeds for planting next year. Warm season vegetable crops are winding down their production, and those overripe or dried out squash, melons, tomatoes, ...