In these dark days of winter, thoughts of a lush garden can seem light-years away. Find some hope in the frigid temps by flipping through seed catalogs — and better yet, you don’t even have to pay to ...

If tending to gardens carried us through the pandemic, seed catalog are sparks of hope, carrying us through the long winter. Even if you order online, these catalogs can inspire, inform and, yes, ...

In mid-spring, the garden centers bloom with the year’s offering of new flower and vegetable plants. It’s a great time for gardeners. But it isn't here yet. We are still several months away from ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the Internet you’d think there would be no printed catalog, but they still come. Though there are fewer catalogs, they remain important in choosing seeds for the garden. Gardeners still look ...

In an old French gardening book, the author describes the winter ordering of seeds for the new year’s garden. “We wait until the children are in bed. We must choose wisely because if the children were ...

Despite unseasonal winter heat waves in swaths of the South, Midwest and Northeast that might get green thumbs itching to get out and get planting, it’s a mostly fallow time for gardeners and farmers ...