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

It pays to plan. This was painfully evident last year when Idiscovered retailers pricing 1-gallon potted organic tomatoes atmore than $7 apiece in June. The small-budget gardener in me knewthat the ...

DENVER — My favorite part about collecting my mail is the arrival of seed catalogs. They've been an important of American life for over a century. While garden centers and nurseries offer a wide array ...

As metro Detroiters get ready to head down into the deep freeze this week (with a high of 11 degrees predicted for Thursday), it may seem like the wrong time to think about spring. But as seasoned ...

Seed and nursery catalogs are out and we're on the road to planning our 2024 gardens. Catalogs are more than just pictures. They are reference books, telling us what will and won't grow here or how ...

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 ...

It’s time for the annual “Garden Plot: Pick of the Seed Catalogs.” As always, the new edition of the J.L. Hudson “Ethnobotanical Catalog of Seeds” is filled with rare varieties, old favorites and ...

Question: From reading your column for years, it seems like you like to grow vegetables in your garden. What we’d like to know is what are your favorite seed companies to buy seed from? I am ...

WASHINGTON — In the new year, there are several noteworthy seed catalogs to check out to enhance your garden. The W. Atlee Burpee company — better known as just “Burpee” — kicks off its 138 th year ...

There is nothing like seed and plant catalogs to activate your horticultural hormones. I know, horticultural hormones may not actually exist, but how else to explain the powerful desire, if not lust, ...

Because of the increased costs of printing and mailing the past few years, I’ve found many smaller seed companies have discontinued producing paper catalogs, and they now put their inventories online.