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 ...

Who needs a tropical winter vacation when there are seed catalogs to browse! Traveling through the pages of vegetable and flower catalogs is midwinter garden therapy at its finest. Last week’s column ...

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 ...

OK, I am continuing with the January seed catalog columns. You don’t need to buy from these, but they are great for learning all manner of stuff that will help you be a better gardener. Pay attention ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The University of Maine is making a bit of a splash, with two new potatoes ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The new edition of the J L Hudson “Ethnobotanical Catalog of Seeds” is filled with rare varieties, old favorites and seeds for plants that most people didn’t even know produced seeds.

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 ...