It’s the dead of winter and the garden is asleep, but your mailbox is alive with beautiful seed catalogs. Alas, it is time to inventory and order seeds. But how do you resist the urge to buy one seed ...

Robins get all the credit for being a first sign of spring, but that’s not entirely true. For gardeners, a seed catalog arriving in the mailbox is the first proof that spring is on its way. Seed ...

IT IS A long-standing tradition among serious gardeners to sit around the kitchen table during the dark days of winter, hot tea or hot toddy in hand, leafing through seed catalogs and dreaming of the ...

If you’re planning to request a seed catalog in 2025, now is the time to do it. New seed catalogs get printed between mid-December and early January, so the seed catalogs we’ve gathered here are hot ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. It's no wonder that gardeners love the first few ...

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 seem to show up earlier and earlier – I think my first one arrived in October this year (a record). I don’t let that rush me, though. I have a yearly ritual of hoarding my seed catalogs ...

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 ...

In an old French gardening book, the author describes the winter ordering of seeds for the new year's garden. "We wait until the children are in bed. We must choose wisely because if the children were ...

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 ...

One of the great winter pleasures of gardeners is planning and dreaming about what to grow next season. And one of the best ways to transform those dreams into reality is to browse through some of the ...

Few pieces of reading material can fuel ambition like a seed catalog. They arrive in the mail during the darkest days of the year, offering warm hopes and delicious dreams of lush vegetation and tasty ...