Nurseries, home improvement stores and even grocery stores may have racks of seeds available when it’s time to start gardening, but there’s nothing like looking through seed catalogs, especially when ...

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 ...

BEREA — Bill Best keeps almost 700 varieties of heirloom bean seeds at the Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center, which is at his farm in the Knobs country of Madison County just outside of Berea.

Anna Fry red beans get their name from the woman who grew them a century ago. Early in the growing season, she planted sugar peas along a fence in her home in the village of Mastersonville. Once those ...

A longtime garden writer shares her go-to sources for flower, veggie, and herb seeds.

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 ...

Read the seed packet or catalog and make sure what you buy is labeled open-pollinated or heirloom, not hybrid. My grandfather grew what we now call heirloom tomatoes: time-tested varieties that breed ...

I maintain that buying seeds is truly the best kind of shopping—seeds are relatively affordable and are literally bursting with potential. Quite frankly, I think seeds are a miracle; you get a small ...

Apr 20, 2018 Apr 20, 2018 Updated Jan 15, 2022 0 In January of 2016, Carol Barany, our Master Gardener segment writer, wrote a story for Yakima Magazine about Phyllis Pugnetti. At the time, Phyllis ...

LITTLE MOUNTAIN, S.C. — Rodger Winn traces his obsession with seed saving to the first grade. As a little boy, he read “Seeds and More Seeds: A Science I CAN READ Book” by Millicent E. Selsam and ...

Rodger Winn traces his obsession with seed saving to the first grade. As a little boy, he read “Seeds and More Seeds: A Science I CAN READ Book” by Millicent E. Selsam and “drove my mother crazy with ...