If tending to gardens carried us through the pandemic, seed catalog are sparks of hope, carrying us through the long winter. Even if you order online, these catalogs can inspire, inform and, yes, ...

Because of the increased costs of printing and mailing the past few years, I’ve found many smaller seed companies have discontinued producing paper catalogs, and they now put their inventories online.

Which is the beet of your dreams? The Johnny’s Selected Seeds catalogue, out of Winslow, Maine, has the reliable if unexciting Zeppo—presumably named after the youngest of the Marx Brothers—which ...

Winter can be a gloomy time of year, but every gardener knows that this is when the excitement builds for spring. The arrival of seed catalogs in the mail is what really sets the season off. If you’ve ...

The seed catalogs have started arriving. Every year at this time they begin slithering through the mail slot with all their enticing photos and glorious possibilities. One of the most original, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shovels, rakes and other tools are now available for gardeners to borrow from the Rawlings Library in Pueblo as the district expands its seed lending program. Double sweet corn, scarlet radish and ...