A fun 10-step guide for children to grow chickpeas at home, teaching patience, care, and curiosity while watching seeds sprout and turn into golden pods.

Did you know that the sunflower seed in your snack mix is actually alive? It won’t be sprouting into a sunflower anytime soon, though. The conditions just aren’t right. So what does it take for a seed ...

Witness the incredible journey of nature in "Sunflower Seed Sprouting Time Lapse." From seed to sprout, watch how sunflower ...

Growing plants from seeds is an easy, inexpensive and fun thing to do. When you learn how to start plants from seeds, the variety of plants that you can grow increases dramatically, but not the ...

Germination is a crucial stage in the life of a plant as it will leave the stage of seed resistant to various environmental constraints (climatic conditions, absence of nutritive elements, etc.) to ...

Marjorie Lundgren receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust, The British Ecological Society, and the Natural Environment Research Council. Hi Alice. This is a clever question. As I’m sure you know, ...

Check out these tips for starting seeds indoors. Readers give their best DIY seed starting system ideas so you can grow your own vegetable seedlings at home this spring. Growing your own seedlings ...

Seed germination and dormancy represent critical phases in the plant life cycle, intricately balancing the timing of growth with environmental cues. Dormancy allows seeds to withstand unfavourable ...

Hi Alice. This is a clever question. As I’m sure you know, plants use seeds to spread their young and make new plants. But plants haven’t always used seeds to do this. Seeds came together bit-by-bit ...