Seed Buying Guide

Really enjoying seeing everyone's personal seed sources in the comments here. Finding some new producers that way. Very cool. Thanks, y'all!

Hmmm, you have more of the man from "The Road" vibe.😊

Let's face it, 99% of viewers have small yard gardens and don't (or should not) worry about this. Over 30 years I've found that seeds from Home Depot do about as well as those from Baker Creek. The key is variety. I like heirlooms and though price is not an object, some companies have skyrocketed. I use Migardener for that very reason - extremely affordable seeds and great variety.

As far as packaging goes, I am fully impressed with Harris Seeds. Their seed envelopes are resealable foil packs, which almost seems vacuum sealed. Lots of growing info provided

David's Garden Seeds in Poteet, TX is a great place to source heat tolerant seeds. Been in business for over 14 years on a farm.

Not a professional, but I'm in coastal BC and my favorite seed company for almost everything is West Coast Seeds. They're the Canadian version of Territorial. Very wide and expanding selection, many varieties are open pollinated, and a lot of them are adapted to cool short summers and mild winters like we have here, and they tell you whether or not the variety is adapted to these or better for other areas. They have larger packages and discounts available so they are still useful to larger than home garden scale growers. I also use Renee's garden sometimes, and I like Mumm's for sprouting seeds.

I save a fair amount of my seeds, especially legumes and often tomatoes, parsnips, lettuce, mizuna. But not carrots or cucurbits.

How much can I get 7 seeds

I need weed seeds weed as in CANNABIS

Home gardener and aspiring cut flower farmer here. I got my seeds from Uprising, MI Gardener and Baker Creek. I found my germination was the best with Uprising Seeds and will order the majority of mine from them next season. I also have picked up some random stuff here and there from local nurseries from Botanical Interests and Renee’s Garden and they’ve done well.

True Leaf Market is local here in Salt Lake City. Just a few people in a warehouse with shipping containers for offices. If you're local, you can ship "will call" and get them from the warehouse to save money. If you go there, they always have a rack of free seeds. I've found cabbage, peppers, pumpkins, squash, carrots, and a bunch more all for free.

I buy pretty much solely from mi gardener and baker creek. I recently found a more local place but they don't have a whole lot I'm interested in so I don't order much from them. I also have a lot seeds from big box stores my mom works for a retail warehouse and if the stores don't purchase all of the boxes of seed to put out in their stores the warehouse sells the extra boxes to the employees for $20 for an entire seed display (its over $1k in seeds sold in store) so every year she gets me one or 2 of those because seeds are seeds and I then share them with everyone I know who is interested in them. I'm not a huge fan of the place the seeds come from but the alternative is they get thrown out and I don't like that either.

You missed MIGardener, Luke has the best prices, $2.00 for lots of seeds in packs, free shipping on 20.00 and so many to choose from. I have always had the best luck with all the seeds coming up.

Thanks!

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Most Appreciated!!!
The more info we have about seeds, the more "secure" we feel about surviving.
Hope you and your family are doing well.

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Mainstreet Seeds and Supply out of Bay City, Michigan. Great prices!

Bakers Creek heirloom and rare seeds in Missouri is a great source.

MiGardner is also a great seed seller, and a great gardener , but i also love Johnny seed, they sold me some of the best blackberry plants i have ever received buy mail, they were so healthy and grew great .

I bought 25 blackberry plants and they were thr most beautiful plants i ever received by mail , Johnny seed is the best !!!!!

If you want to try to include some unique varieties from other countries, right now is a great time to seek out seeds from Ukraine. Just sayin'

I get all my garden seeds from Stokes. They sell a lot to the big commercial guys, so they have a lot of seeds with the latest disease resistances. But they also sell to us home gardeners. They are great for the north East! They have a wide selection of untreated seeds but given a choice I would go with treated seed (sorry, not sorry). I do like organic untreated seed for my micro greens though and always use Mumm’s. I really enjoy your videos (even though I’m not an organic gardener), I just find good gardeners interesting, no matter what the style of their growing and I can often pick up useful tidbits of information!

Klaus

Where the pro's get our seeds: we harvest our own and are seed independent, unless I see something cool. Then I buy it once, grow it out, and harvest the seed.

My favorite seed company of lately is southern exposure seed Exchange. Very reasonable and you get MANY more seeds in a packet than many other companies for a similar priced package and mostly heirloom, and great choices!

Best place is everwilde seeds by far.

In Ontario Canada, I purchase from a couple of different companies. Ontario Seed Company has been very reliable in terms of product availability and germination rates, West Coast Seeds are fantastic! A local company to me and fairly new to market is Gaia Organic Seeds. Gaia Organic Seeds is still small scale, but they have some unique seed varieties, truly organic and the seed germination rate has been fantastic for us!

dixondale farms has onion plants for sale. The more you buy cheaper they get and they have free shipping and handling

A much needed topic. Small regional seed growers are worth keeping in business. I like Seed Treasures in northern minnesota for my cold region. 😊

I love bakercreek seeds they're great.

Great video, thanks!

For decades I used to get much better amounts and quality and diversity of all the rare heirloom seeds than Baker Creek has for about $1.07 a pack at nikitovka seeds. Now some villain hiding behind the government has made a new law we cannot buy any seeds anymore from outside usa. The news media ran a fearmongering psyop about Chinese Mystery Seeds sent to somebody's mailbox to start an excuse to prohibit seed exchange.

Irish Eyes organic seed potatos very good and they ship in early March

For SW US hot peppers Sandia Seed has the best catalog
Also like Hoss Tools, Territorial Seeds, and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

I used Johnny's seed for years, but lately something has changed there package has issues and their refund and return policies make them impossible to work with. I will use Harris seeds from now on.

I can't even get any seeds i bought everything brand new and now im a disabled man who cant get out to get any. Im in England uk and thats a nightmare. Ahhhhhhh

West Coast Seeds. Far from you but it’s great for your watchers in the West. High standards provider. High quality.

Some people make them.

I buy mine from bakers creek and mi gardener

I've had good luck with Willhite Seed in TX, for those of us more southerly.

Thank you from England. All my generic questions answered. (I lean towards Johnsons Seeds, but I'm an amateur).

Territorial Seed in Oregon has Organic & non Organic seed. Various sizes.😊

Your such a cool dude tons of knowledge and your real good at sharing that information and you got a awesome personality and you can see that on camera your just a cool dude wish we could be friends 😂

Southern Ontario Canada here, I'm within driving distance of two very good seed stores. William Dam seeds, and Stokes Seeds . Both on the Niagara Peninsula .

Yooo now that he mentioned it I always thought he looked like Joel from the last of us it just never registered in my head😂

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I totally understand why large-scale growers don't save their own seeds, but I have personally noticed a huge difference in the seeds I've been saving over just the last 2-3 years. The plants are so much healthier than the ones I start from purchased seed. Selecting seeds from plants that did well in my climate and with my method of gardening has been a game changer.

I also leave many plants like kale in the ground over my cold winter and collect seeds from the ones that survive thus creating my own cold hardy perrenial variety.

5 generations of non GMO organic seeds from Burpee seeds with top yields. No I dont work there.