Tips & Tricks
Need some additional guidance while expanding your green thumb? No worries, Seed St. Louis has a library of educational resources to support your gardening adventures. Explore our variety of Tips & Tricks below!
Increasing Pollination in Your Veggie Garden with Companion Plants
Guest Post by Nicole Miller-Struttann, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology, Webster University Many crop plants rely on local insects for pollination. While honeybees can be important pollinators in agricultural settings, wild bees are often better pollinators. That is good news in some ways, because it means you don’t need a honeybee hive to increase pollination. […]
Read MoreOrchards Are a Buzz with Local Researchers
Guest Post by Nicole Miller-Struttann, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology, Webster University Orchards are popping up in a lot of community gardens around the country, and it’s easy to understand why. They help to provide local sources of high-quality fruits, create shaded nooks for people and animals alike, and reduce the environmental impacts of long-distance […]
Read MoreGreen Beans
Green Beans Food Sheet
Read MorePotato
Potato Planting Guide
Read MoreJune Tip: Vertical Gardening
What if I told you there was a way to increase vegetable production without increasing garden size and that it would also reduce disease without using any fertilizers or pesticides. Sounds like a marketing scam but it’s not, it’s vertical gardening. Training and supporting plants that would normally sprawl over a large area of the […]
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