The soil seed bank is a natural reserve of seeds in the soil. Plants drop seeds that lie dormant, sometimes for a thousand years, and wait for favorable conditions to germinate and grow into a new ...

Seed starting looks simple from the outside: fill a tray, drop in a seed, add water, wait. But the gap between what seedlings need and what most of us instinctively give them is exactly where seeds ...

Humans are not the only creatures who know how to invest. Plant communities have a secret “trust fund” buried underground: the soil seed bank. The soil seed bank is a natural reserve of seeds in the ...