January is a prime time for an attack of the winter ickies. I stave off attacks by searching seed catalogs and sipping herbal tea. Due to high costs of printing and postage, many seed houses have gone ...

Here’s how to make sure those impulse catalog purchases result in happy surprises — not buyer’s remorse. By Margaret Roach Not to put a damper on your seed-catalog bingeing — it marks the ritual start ...

Every year I have a tradition of saving all of my seed catalogs for one snowy cold day, so I can dig into them on a quiet Saturday morning with a steaming mug of tea, dog-earing and marking all the ...

Winter offers an ideal opportunity to dream and plan next season’s garden. Catalogs offer an escape into the world of warm weather, green landscapes and flowers, fruits and vegetables. Here are a few ...

While the winter wind blows, gardeners everywhere turn to seed catalogs as they dream of the spring and summer ahead. The ...

Increasingly, seed catalogs make vegetables and herbs from around the world accessible to American gardeners. Here are some to start with: Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, 417-924-8917 or www.rareseeds.com ...

With spring still several months away, Colleen Richard won’t be getting her hands in the dirt anytime soon, so she does the next best thing. She sits down with her gardening catalogs and starts to ...

The new spring 2005 Park Seed catalogue just landed in mymailbox, and there are some very interesting new additions. I knowthat many of you like to start garden plants from seeds, eitherbecause the ...

January is a tough month for gardeners in Michigan. I depend on seed catalogs and websites to ward off the winter blues. The Botanical Interests web site has instructions how to make seed bombs – a ...

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 ...