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 ...

A new layer of snow has fallen on Chester County and the ground is like stone, but the 2014 gardening season has already begun. It arrived in the flurry of seed catalogs that started showing up in my ...

It”s almost as thick as a fashion week issue of Vogue at a whopping 354 full pages of veggie seed bliss. That”s why I didn”t realize my favorite heirloom seed source was behind “The Whole Seed Catalog ...

Each December welcomes the arrival of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog, a veritable encyclopedia of time-honored, nonhybrid, nongenetically modified and nonpatented seeds for the home gardener.

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 ...

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 ...

Even if you don't have a green thumb, the Baker Creek Seed Catalog is a fascinating read. Bear with me. Now in its 15th year, the catalog contains listings for 1,450 seeds for vegetables, flowers, and ...

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds’ West Coast store, the Seed Bank in Petaluma, taps into growing interest in heirloom vegetables, fruit and flowers. Manny Crisostomo [email protected] For gardeners ...

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 ...

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 ...