Each year I try to grow one special crop, a weird one, to discover how these plants grow, flower and differ by variety. Past special crops have been fingerling potatoes, Indian corn, amaranth, ...

WASHINGTON — In the new year, there are several noteworthy seed catalogs to check out to enhance your garden. In last week’s Garden Plot, I covered five good ones to check out in 2015. Now it’s on to ...

It’s that time again. Winter-weary imaginations are stoked by the glossy color photos and artful descriptions in the seed catalogs. My job is to wade through the offerings and try to find the new and ...

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 ...

In a recent column, I mentioned that January is National Mail Order Gardening Month and that, if you had not received any gardening catalogs, you should go to www.directgardeningassociation.com to ...

Our columnist gives the highlights of several local ones. I’ve got seeds and catalogs on the brain – what gardener doesn’t at this time of year? And when my Johnny’s Selected Seeds catalog arrived in ...

In the early days of this column, I had a list of several “must have” seed catalogs. They were all snail mail catalogs. These were the ones that took care of Alaska gardeners or had fantastic pictures ...

It is still early to sow seed for summer gardens but it is potato-planting time. The potato is an interesting vegetable. The potato, tomato, pepper, tomatillo and eggplant are all members of the ...

It is seed catalog season. Or it was. Nowadays it is more like "seed webalog" season. The idea is not so much to look for things to buy and start in this year's gardens, but rather to get some new ...

In the little hamlet of Fishers, now part of the town of Victor, potatoes were king! From the Civil War to well after World War I, every available space was planted with potatoes. The sandy loam soil ...

An error has occurred. Please try again. With a Centralmaine.com subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...

Chances are that some dedicated gardeners have already tilled their gardens and planted their “seed” potatoes, their aim to plant on or around St. Patrick’s Day. But with all the recent rains and ...