When you shop from catalogs, it's easy to just click and buy. But when it comes to seed catalogs, there's a lot more to the process of picking out what vegetables you want to grow next year.

Admit it. Even the heartiest, healthiest, hardest-working gardener must eventually yield to diminishing energy and declining physical abilities.

New Jersey was devastated by 19th-century iron mining. The land was dredged and drained to create more ground for expanding an iron furnace.