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 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 ...

Whether you want cut flowers or a striking vertical display, these seeds will flourish in no time — given the right support. By Margaret Roach In Matt Mattus’s garden and greenhouse, analysis and ...

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 ...

Yikes! Out of the deep freeze and into the month of May! Please enjoy the warm weather this weekend, but please resist the temptation to do any pruning! Yes, winter pruning is the rule for big trees ...

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 ...

When you have too many things to remember, it’s fun to set yourself up for a surprise. Weeks ago, I mailed an order for some wacky selections from the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed catalog. I did not ...

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 ...