As interest in using native plants increases, more home gardeners might be interested in starting perennial plants from seed. Native plants can be difficult to find in garden centers and ...

Boost your garden's productivity by learning the best times to start seeds indoors – including a month-by-month guide for ...

But the most common form of seed dormancy is also the toughest to break. Seeds in such states take up water, which revs up their metabolism. But then the metabolism quickly winds back down, ...

Dormancy of Lupine seed can be broken by the process of scarification. In nature, seed of bluebonnets may survive in the ground for years without germinating because of their hard seed coats.

After-ripening, an extension of seed maturation is pivotal for seed dormancy release, which has implications for germination and subsequent seedling robustness. The efficacy of this process varies ...

Then, as weather patterns trended warmer, people were getting mixed results when dormant seeding. This was because the warmer weather caused the seed to sit in cold, wet soil instead of frozen soil.

How Dormant Grass Seed Holds Its Ground. Snow cover and ice don’t wash away dormant seed as easily as you’d think. When grass seed is applied during dormant seeding, it settles into the soil ...

Seed dormancy allows plants to hedge their bets on the future; the Global Seed Vault extends this state for decades or longer. While varieties in the field may become extinct, their banked seeds ...