Looking to buy your 2025 garden seeds? Consider these eight favorites of PennLive's long-time garden writer, George Weigel.

The catalog promises newly added varieties, too. The Texas-based seed company is one of the best you’ll find for watermelons. Alongside traditional vegetable, herb, and flower offerings ...

Master Gardener A current AARP article calls them “wish books,” but seed catalogs can be a source of disappointment if you don’t know what you are  doing when you succumb to their ...

Seed catalogs also will tell you if the seeds were ... determinate plants would be best because you’ll get your crop all at the same time. But, if you want to enjoy fresh tomatoes all season ...

The Whole Seed Catalog costs $14.95 and has stunning photos, an extensive collection of heirloom seeds from around the world, and much more. A friend visited their site in Missouri and bought me a ...

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 […] ...

Printed seed catalogs have been around since the mid-18th ... Hybridization selects the best traits of each parent, improving characteristics like flavor, color or yield, but take note: Seeds ...

With the weather we’ve had lately, seed and plant catalogs provide a welcome escape for us to ponder future spring and summer plantings. It’s fun and challenging to try new vegetable varieties ...

It begins in December. By January, seed and plant catalogs arrive at your mailbox (or email) almost daily. Browsing through their pages provides a welcome escape from the garden-deprived days ...