It happens more often than most of us would care to admit. We reach into the pocket of a jacket we haven’t worn in a while and pull out a half-empty packet of seeds. Seeds are powerful. They’re the ...

Standing for "cool, dry, and dark", CDD spells out the typical conditions seeds require during dormancy. Mess up on one, and you can expect to meet germinated seeds when you empty your stored packets.

Before seeds came in glossy packets with barcodes, every gardener saved them. It was as ordinary as saving a recipe; ...