We always clue our listeners in to the money-saving deals that some seed catalogs offer as an incentive to get people to order before the big springtime crush, but I’ve never seen an offer like this ...

As you look through all the seed catalogs arriving in your mailbox and dream about the garden season to come, you may find yourself a bit confused about certain terms you find in those catalogs. Some ...

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 ...

It’s January and time for the annual seed catalog to arrive in the mail as it has for almost 200 years. With the Internet you’d think there would be no printed catalog, but they still come. Though ...

Missouri-based seed catalog and retailer Baker Creek was founded by Jere Gettle as a hobby. Raised on a homestead in the Ozarks, he started gardening at age 3 and learned to read by poring over his ...

Sow True Seed, based in Asheville, offers exclusively open-pollinated, non-hybrid, untreated seed that remains true-to-type when saved and replanted. For their annual catalog Sow True Seed ...

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 ...

Winter offers an ideal opportunity to dream and plan next season’s garden. Catalogs offer an escape into the world of warm weather, green landscapes and flowers, fruits and vegetables. Here are a few ...

A current AARP article calls them “wish books,” but seed catalogs can be a source of disappointment if you don’t know what you are doing when you succumb to their temptations. There are several things ...

On the last day of November my first 2020 seed catalog arrived. The timing could not have been better. Thanksgiving sticks a fork into the growing season, marking the end of harvest and ushering in a ...

Ah yes, winter and all its glory. It was Christmas day morning when I ventured outside to get my newspaper and slipped on a patch of ice, breaking my ankle. Painful, yes, but at least it's January and ...