We thought we were planting just a few squash plants. Every garden needs variety. What we ended up with were prolific, ...

Choosing seeds to grow your plants can be overwhelming with so many options. Learn the difference between heirloom and hybrid ...

Heirloom seeds are curated over many generations for their ability to produce plants of characteristic beauty and culinary superiority. The names of some heirloom plants can be just as colorful as ...

I heard about the Heirloom Seed Lending Library last summer and asked Carol about it. ... Piles of kale, Swiss chard, tomatoes and beans took over the entire top of the wood table.

“Seed-catalogue villains have convinced us that we have to buy seeds every year,” says Ellen Ecker Ogden, kitchen garden designer and author of “The New Heirloom Garden: Designs, Recipes ...

Q:I enjoyed your article explaining the ugly blotches on my chard ("How to rescue chard from pests" Aug. 14). My first question is: What is row cover? Also why did you start the chard seed indoors ...

Though not all open-pollinated seeds are heirlooms, heirloom seeds are always open-pollinated — meaning the plant is pollinated naturally, by air, insects, birds or other animals — and will ...

There's always something interesting that shows up," said Doug Gosling, a dedicated seed saver who oversees the gardens at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and Food for Thought in Forestville.