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 ...

HUDSONVILLE, MI - Julie Slezak says heirloom vegetables changed her diet and garden. Now she wants them to change your garden and diet. Slezak and her husband, Scott, are the owners Annie's Heirloom ...

On the last day of November my first 2020 seed catalog arrived. The timing could not have been better. Thanksgiving sticks a fork into the growing season, marking the end of harvest and ushering in a ...

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 ...

ON PAGE 70 of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Catalog, a rakish gardener with a long white beard perches atop a tall ladder. Beside him a massive kale plant grows. A fulsome paragraph describes ‘Walking ...

As gardeners curl up on the couch each January, dreaming of abundant summer, a war of words rages in that cozy corner of literature inhabited by seed catalogs. It’s your wits against those of seedsmen ...

Over the years that I’ve been growing vegetables, I’ve discovered that seed catalogues – arriving in mailboxes this month in advance of spring planting – often contain much more than photos of the ...

As soon as the flood of Christmas cards slowed to a dribble, an avalanche of garden catalogs filled up my mailbox. Mixed into the usual list of big catalogs like Johnny’s Select Seeds, Territorial ...

So on Monday I received the first catalog of the season, the always-beautiful entry from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Its 2012 catalog is just as eye-catching as ever, this time sporting a watermelon ...

The Purple Galaxy Tomato splashed across the cover of this season's Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog: a closeup of a blackish-purple tomato speckled with tiny pink dots. Next to it, sits a sliced ...

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 ...