I prefer printed color heirloom vegetable seed catalogs for hours of study in midwinter. Each year I grow new varieties to test them for flavor, vigor and yield.

Evergreen Seeds, 714-637-5769 or www.evergreenseeds.com. Online catalog offers 300 varieties of Asian herb and vegetable seeds.

For many vegetable gardeners, this is perhaps the best season of the year—seed catalog season! Since the first week of January, colorful seed catalogs have begun to appear in my mailbox just as ...

Seed catalogs, books and houseplants keep a gardener busy for the winter months. The seed catalogs are beginning to arrive, though not like they used to. More and more companies are doing away ...

Enjoy this list of top vegetable, flower, fruit and herb seed catalog companies.

Growing flowers and vegetables from seed gives you more choices and saves money. Here are 10 great seed catalogs to check out.

Most catalogs include the USDA Plant Hardiness Map so that you can see our hardiness zone and match it to the plant you are considering. Find planting tips and techniques. For vegetable gardeners ...

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

It also offers pepper seeds and the whole range of vegetable seeds you have come to expect from a good catalog/weblog. Tomato Fest on the other hand, has 650 different heirloom tomatoes.

WHY: These are all open-pollinated seeds you can save from the garden and help stabilize a diverse “seed bank.” We should have over 40 different vegetable and herb varieties to select from!