The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

After a lovely winter break, I returned to the office with a stack of seed catalogs begging me to order more seeds. Despite having hundreds of seed packets, I find it hard to throw them away. Indeed, ...

In the age of the internet, seed catalogs are still a relevant and fun resource for gardeners.

One of the great winter pleasures of gardeners is planning and dreaming about what to grow next season. And one of the best ways to transform those dreams into reality is to browse through some of the ...

Even if you have no plans to start your garden from seed, garden catalogs give the chance to imagine what’s possible. Often in full color, these catalogs share what’s new and tell stories of crops ...

This winter as seed catalogs started showing up in gardeners' mailboxes, one stood out. Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company splashed photos of the purple galaxy tomato on its cover. It bragged, This ...

A song called “One Ton Tomato” (a parody of “Guantanamera”), as aired by radio host Dr. Demento in 1980, has stuck mercilessly in my mind ever since, and I recall it each year when the new Burpee seed ...

Delivered to mailboxes in the depths of winter, seed catalogs are like a sunny day for gardeners dreaming of big, juicy summer tomatoes. Seed catalogs have been part of U.S. horticultural history ...

Germinating tomato seeds is somewhat intensive but generally produces good results. Learn how to germinate tomato seeds faster with the following steps. Starting tomatoes from seed is a necessity if ...

The seeds released this year inadvertently made it on to the cover of a non-GMO seed catalog. How seeds for genetically modified purple tomatoes ended up in a non-GMO seed catalog The seeds released ...