George Ball’s 150-year-old seed company invented iceberg lettuce, the Big Boy tomato and other groundbreaking vegetables ...

America's 250th birthday is inspiring new ways to explore gardening traditions, with ideas rooted in centuries of United ...

The W. Atlee Burpee Co., affectionately known as “Burpee seeds” to millions of American gardeners, is the nation’s largest home seed and plant company and was founded in Philadelphia in 1876, at the ...

One only needs to note the proliferation of Victory Gardens during World War II or the past year’s explosion of community plots to know that when economic times are tough, Americans head back to the ...

'Ultra Violet' Hybrid Corn The source that introduced yellow sweet corn to American gardens now offers the world's first truly sweet purple corn. ‘Ultra Violet' delivers the sugary satisfaction of ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I was a little girl, I used to look forward to the day that the Burpee Seeds catalogue arrived in the mail. We didn’t have a vegetable garden and I didn’t even like vegetables back then, but ...

IF you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk. If you want to be happy for a weekend. get married. But if you want to be happy all your life, become a gardener.” So goes an old proverb often quoted ...

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 ...

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