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 ...

A new layer of snow has fallen on Chester County and the ground is like stone, but the 2014 gardening season has already begun. It arrived in the flurry of seed catalogs that started showing up in my ...

WASHINGTON – In this season of the seed catalog, remember that the term “new” is like a stick of raw celery – best taken with a pinch of salt. A nursery’s catalog can call something new even if it has ...

The seed catalogs have started arriving. Every year at this time they begin slithering through the mail slot with all their enticing photos and glorious possibilities. One of the most original, and ...

Read the seed packet or catalog and make sure what you buy is labeled open-pollinated or heirloom, not hybrid. My grandfather grew what we now call heirloom tomatoes: time-tested varieties that breed ...

Seed catalogs are what sustain most gardeners in the pit of winter, the pictures of bright blooms and fleshy melons stoking their fantasies. When my mother-in-law sent me the beautiful Baker Creek ...

Jackson & Perkins, 1-800-292-4769. The 2010 rose and floribunda of the year are the stars of this catalog. Both are said to be vigorous, eager to bloom and ready to plant this spring. J.W. Jung Seed ...

In a corner of the recently expanded Charlotte Library, a two-drawer card catalog sits on a mustard-yellow floral tablecloth. But instead of old-school index cards listing books, its drawers hold ...