As gardeners curl up on the couch each January, dreaming of abundant summer, a war of words rages in that cozy corner of literature inhabited by seed catalogs. It’s your wits against those of seedsmen ...

In the middle of a long, cold winter, it warms a gardener’s heart to find the mailbox packed with seed and plant catalogs. I recently received a trio of them from the granddaddy of the seed companies, ...

WARMINSTER, Pennsylvania -- If you've ever pulled a Burpee carrot out of the ground, munched on a salad of Burpee iceberg lettuce or sniffed a bouquet of Burpee zinnas, it's because those plants ...

What’s going to be in your garden this summer? Burpee knows. According to the giant seed catalog’s 2015 retail seed forecast, California’s many backyard fruit and vegetable farmers dig tomatoes most ...

Burpee Seeds has a long history in the American mail-order seed business. The Burpees date to the late 1800s as a prominent Philadelphia family. W. Atlee Burpee was born in 1858 and was expected to ...

I hadn't been back to Fordhook Farm, the ancestral home of the W. Atlee Burpee family, since the summer of 1992, when I fell in love with a zucchini called 'Roly Poly.' So I dropped by recently to ...

The seed trade catalogs document the history of the seed and agricultural business in the United States; they also provide a history of botany and plant research such as the introduction of plant ...

Though it might not seem as if the companies selling Brach’s candy marshmallow Easter Hunt Eggs, Jell-O, and seeds for vegetables and plants have much in common, James “Jamie” Mattikow sees many ...

Yikes! Out of the deep freeze and into the month of May! Please enjoy the warm weather this weekend, but please resist the temptation to do any pruning! Yes, winter pruning is the rule for big trees ...

Ah yes, winter and all its glory. It was Christmas day morning when I ventured outside to get my newspaper and slipped on a patch of ice, breaking my ankle. Painful, yes, but at least it's January and ...

I love old books about gardening. Each winter I set aside some time to read a few: There are always tricks of the trade that have gotten lost over time, or once-beloved plants that are now largely ...