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 ...

The Purple Galaxy Tomato splashed across the cover of this season's Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog: a closeup of a blackish-purple tomato speckled with tiny pink dots. Next to it, sits a sliced ...

OK, I am continuing with the January seed catalog columns. You don’t need to buy from these, but they are great for learning all manner of stuff that will help you be a better gardener. Pay attention ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether you're flipping through a seed catalog or walking through your local nursery, the huge variety of tomato types you can grow can be overwhelming. For help whittling down the field, we checked ...

Robins get all the credit for being a first sign of spring, but that’s not entirely true. For gardeners, a seed catalog arriving in the mailbox is the first proof that spring is on its way. Seed ...

A sliced Ananas Noire, aka Black Pineapple, tomato is displayed in East Carbon, Utah on Sept. 19, 2012. (Dale Thurber/Delectation of Tomatoes via AP) Seed-starting time is right around the corner, and ...