Local gardening: Saving seeds

Check out a seed library

Where to buy short-season tomatoes and books and websites for more information

Find information on growing tomatoes at farmers markets, websites, books and garden centers.

Seeds: Save money on gardening by saving seeds

Vegetable gardening starts with seeds. But as anyone who's gotten sticker shock browsing at the nursery can attest, seeds can add up to a major expense.

Sow easy: Grow lettuce, herbs in your garden

A variety of lettuce seeds are available to gardeners. Vegetable gardening doesn’t get any easier than direct-sowing lettuces and herbs outdoors -- you can be space- and time-challenged and still produce a healthy crop of leafy goodness within a few weeks.

'Seed keeper' Phil Seneca strives for hearty stock

Seneca is the "seed keeper" and founder of Good Mind Seeds, a company that offers an eclectic variety of flowers and vegetables bred for toughness and genetic diversity. Seed-keeping is different from seed storage, he says.