Growing flowers and vegetables from seed gives you more choices and saves money. Here are 10 great seed catalogs to check out ...

Nurseries, home improvement stores and even grocery stores may have racks of seeds available when it’s time to start gardening, but there’s nothing like looking through seed catalogs, especially when ...

As we get into the heart of winter with shorter days and longer nights, we can shift our focus by looking ahead to when we will be planting again. This time of year is perfect for evaluating our ...

Every October, just like clockwork, the Miles Kimball catalogue heralds Christmas. Likewise, in February, various seed catalogues signal spring’s imminent return. My parents always received the Burpee ...

We gardeners suffer from a bit of garden withdrawal in the winter. Seed catalogs help us dream of the season to come and keep our green thumbs busy highlighting must haves and making wish lists.

For those unsure of what an heirloom vegetable is, these are old varieties still maintained by farmers and gardeners particularly in isolated or ethnic communities. Many would vanish forever if not ...

From soil improvement to crafts, these winter garden ideas will keep you busy until spring and make your garden better.

One of the great pleasures in reading garden catalogues is discovering interesting new vegetables and flowers. The 1985 gardening season is no exception. The emphasis among the new varieties of ...

ON PAGE 70 of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Catalog, a rakish gardener with a long white beard perches atop a tall ladder. Beside him a massive kale plant grows. A fulsome paragraph describes ‘Walking ...

I recall the days when seed catalogues came in the mail nearly every postal day during the month of February. A few of them jumped the gun and did their mailings in January but, for the most part, the ...

Robins get all the credit for being a first sign of spring, but that’s not entirely true. For gardeners, a seed catalog arriving in the mailbox is the first proof that spring is on its way. Seed ...