Looking to buy your 2025 garden seeds? Consider these eight favorites of PennLive's long-time garden writer, George Weigel.

townhouse cottage garden. There is a nostalgic aspect to it too. The heirloom plants that make up such a garden come down through generations of gardeners. They are the flowers that granny ...

Manhattan Seed Swap will be on Sunday, Feb. 16. Bring seeds or just yourself to the Flint Hills Discovery Center between 1 and 4 p.m.

Join us for the official kickoff of the 2022 Chaska Seed Library on Saturday, April 30 anytime between 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Check out your packets of heirloom seeds and pick up additional resources to help ...

That’s because figs are a popular passalong plant. That means they were grown ... a new fig tree to continue the lineage of a beloved heirloom specimen or share cuttings with fellow gardeners ...

Heirloom plants are open-pollinated, non-hybrid varieties that have been cultivated for at least 50 years and many for much longer than that. When it comes to tomatoes, we have grown a large ...

The dining scene is especially busy in Asbury Park, where a longtime coffee shop closed its doors, a downtown spot has new ...

Heirloom plants have one parent plant. Seeds collected from these plants resemble the parents. Local heirlooms are easy to grow, as many are adapted to our local climate. Hybrid tomato plants are ...

Growing heirloom vegetables helps encourage genetic diversity, which is important in a world where climate change and other environmental issues threaten the survival of many plant species.

which unlike hybrids will produce offspring identical to the parent plant. Image Heirloom bean packets are among 20,000-plus types of seeds preserved inside the seed bank at Seed Savers Exchange.

For more suggestions, ask the Master Gardeners to send you a copy of "Recommendations for Growing Fruit Trees" and other edible plants. If you’re crazy about tomatoes, consider growing heirloom ...

In Fielding Questions, readers also asked about how to properly store onions and whether rose pruning should be delayed.