There is no denying the allure of heirloom vegetables. These distinctive open-pollinated varieties have truly stood the test of time due to their heritage of flavor and their culinary contrasts of ...

Heirloom seeds are open-pollinated, which means they're pollinated by insects or wind without human intervention. They're not hybrids. "We have seeds that Julius Caesar might have grown," Orton says. ...

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 ...

Be a part of history and save money when planting next year’s garden. Collect and save the seeds from your favorite heirloom tomatoes, peppers, beans and peas this fall. Seeds of heirloom plants have ...

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 ...

I maintain that buying seeds is truly the best kind of shopping—seeds are relatively affordable and are literally bursting with potential. Quite frankly, I think seeds are a miracle; you get a small ...

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 ...

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 ...

The grocery store aisles flood us with perfect, uniform produce that looks the same week after week. Yet tucked away in seed ...

Heirloom tomatoes are a summer memory, but gardener Tali Saxton-De-Prez from Massachusetts expects delicious tomatoes again this August because she saved and will replant their seeds from last year.

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As a boy in the 1950s I knew there were two kinds of tomatoes: deep red, plump and tasty ones my grandfather grew, and the kind that came four in a package wrapped in cellophane. The Cello-Wraps, as I ...