Depending on where you store them and what types of seeds they contain, your old, dog-eared seed packets may or may not be worth using this season. Seeds are alive, but they do not live forever.

Seeds cost more every year. Garden centers stack those bright packets near the checkout line like candy, and each spring the cart fills up again. But a thriving garden already holds next year’s supply ...

One spring day on his way home from work, Edgar A. Guest, a renowned Detroit columnist during the early half of the 20th century who was also Michigan's Poet Laureate, stopped by the hardware store to ...