Seed

A seed is an ovule with a protective coating, encasing a live plant embryo and a nutrient source.^[1] They are used by many plants to reproduce.

Seed, according to the public domain 1915 work The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, refers to the ""The ripened ovule; the essential part is the embryo, and this is contained within integuments.

Seed Packets and Seed Information[edit]

According to Gardenology.org, "Generally, seed packets labels include:^[2]

• Common name with botanical name (in parentheses).
• Plant spacing and depth
• Height
• Soil
• Water
• Sun
• Door: Indoor, Outdoor or Both.
• Live: Perennial or annual.
• Planting, germination and harvest period
• Special requirements, if relevant."

Seeds in the Bible[edit]

In the Old Testament, the Book of Genesis contains an explanation of how all plant forms began:

"And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day."^[3]

See also[edit]

• Spore
• Germination
• List of gardening topics
• Glossary of gardening terms
• Green Revolution
• Grass
• Yucca
• Permaculture - Permanent agriculture
• Terminator seeds of Monsanto

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Horizon Herb Seeds
• Victory Seeds - Rare, Open-pollinated and Heirloom Garden Seeds
• JohnnySeeds.com - Johnny's Selected Seeds
• Soil Cube for Seed Starting
• The Millennium Seed Bank Project Kew Garden's ambitious preservation project
• The Svalbard Global Seed Vault - a backup facility for the world's seed banks
• Plant Physiology online: Types of Seed Dormancy and the Roles of Environmental Factors
• The Seed Site: collecting, storing, sowing, germinating, and exchanging seeds, with pictures of seeds, seedpods and seedlings.
• Royal Holloway, University of London: The Seed Biology Place
• Seeds - Discussions by Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast

Bibliography - Further Reading[edit]

• Bailey, Liberty Hyde, The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. New York City: Macmillan, 1915. Copyright expired, now Public domain. 676 pages.
• Stuppy, W. Glossary of Seed and Fruit Morphological Terms. Royal botanical gardens, Kew 2004
• United States Forest Service. Woody Plant Seed Manual. 1948 (Google Books)