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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the holidays, I find it easy to slide into the winter doldrums, as I anticipate the long nippy weeks before the spring. But we gardeners have a secret weapon for putting off the “blahs” – the ...

This is the time of year when gardeners around the country normally order their 2023 seed catalogs. At least that is what many are planning on doing. However, in keeping with the notion that we need ...

The first seed catalog is soon to arrive full of the promise of summer and the temptation of varieties untried. Then the next catalog, and the next, and so on, making seed choices overwhelming. Here ...

Here we are, knee-deep in the holidays, and our gardens have finally been tucked in for the long winter nap. It’s a time of year many growers look forward to, a time to finally put up their aching ...

WASHINGTON — In the new year, there are several noteworthy seed catalogs to check out to enhance your garden. The W. Atlee Burpee company — better known as just “Burpee” — kicks off its 138 th year ...

Here in Vermont we get a lot of them, most arriving in the dead of winter, when the garden is nothing but a fitful memory. They run the gamut from a full-color book-length production on glossy coated ...

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.

At Turtle Tree Seed, adults with developmental differences work “side by side” with other staff to produce seed that’s more artisanal than agribusiness. By Margaret Roach It takes a village, not a ...

If time travel were an option, you might want to go back a hundred years to order garden seeds from Salzer Seed Company in La Crosse. This 1919 order form with fancy letterhead featured Salzer’s ...