Where To Buy Seeds For Your Garden: Some Of My Favorite Seed Companies
Where To Buy Seeds For Your Garden: Some Of My Favorite Seed Companies
In this video, I share with you some of my favorite seed companies to source seed for your garden. The current pandemic is giving rise to a generation of new gardeners interested in food security, as well as motivating current gardeners to expand their gardens. If you’re a new gardener, or a gardener looking to grow new, exciting varieties of fruits and vegetables, you may not know where to source seed. This video will hopefully be a helpful guide.
NOTE: This is only a small list of seed companies. There are many more fantastic seed companies, both large and small, worthy of your business. This is just a list of the best seed companies that I regularly do business with and I source annual seed catalogs from to help new gardeners find sources of seed. This is not meant to exclude other seed companies. If you’ve had great experiences with other seed companies, feel free to post them in the comments below!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Where To Buy Seeds For Your Garden
1:37 Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
2:48 Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
4:01 Tomato Growers Supply Company
5:16 Victory Seeds
6:06 Burpee
8:08 Territorial Seed Company
8:59 When To Order Seeds For Your Garden
10:19 Adventures With Dale
Many of the above companies are heirloom seed companies and stock mostly heirloom and open pollinated seeds, but some carry hybrid seeds if you prefer growing hybrid varieties.
If you have any questions about where to buy seeds for garden supply, buying seeds online, how to start vegetable seeds, have any questions about the things I am growing in my garden, are looking for any garden tips and tricks, or have questions about gardening and organic gardening in general, please ask in the Comments below!
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Pinetree at superseeds.com has small packets in case you don’t have much space or just want to try a new variety.
What is the best raised bed soil and container potting soil to buy? I’m in zone 8. Thank you.
Do you have a recommendation for a specific cucumber that grows well in coastal carolinas?
Hello, i am planning on buying watermelon/melon seeds(1 of each), what are some good types? And your personal favorites.
Last year I ordered from territorial seeds. The shipping it high, but I had 99% germination. Everything I planted did very well.
I got my seeds from Victory Seeds. Love them so far, only been gardening about two years .
I don’t think people became interested in home gardening for food security. A home garden could never provide food security for the average person. It’s just not feasible. There is a learning curve before you can even produce food. Most people have bad soils that need a few years to get going. Then there is pest and disease pressure. Also, people can’t live off of tomatoes, okras, and cucumbers, radish, and Swiss chard. The yield just isn’t there. You have to put in more that you out of it – pesticides, fertilizer, soil, tools, cups, etc. It’s easier to hunt deer and turkeys from a economic standpoint. I just think people became interested because perhaps they need something to occupy them or perhaps because they "THINK" what they’re doing will provide food security without having thought it over carefully. If it was a matter of food security, I’d stop gardening right then and there. There have been so many failures and I’ve lost so much money. I continue because it’s a hobby and enjoy learning different lessons that make me better year after year.
I watch your channel often and have learned a tremendous about about many aspects of gardening. I am looking to transform my backyard into a vegetable and fruit garden. do you have any suggestions for how to plan out each section of land?
I have sun most of the day in 80 % of my backyard. I want to add fruit trees and bushes plus many varieties of vegetables. I usually groww a small garden with 5 different vegetables and have been pretty successful.
Lastly I have been growing 10 fig trees for several months and in zone 7a I’m thinking all will go into containers. I grew 6 from my white fig tree and 4 Violette de Bordeaux trees I bought
I haven’t found anyone who carries more heirloom tomatoes than Tomatofest. I just ordered 9 varieties from them. The other catalogues you listed didn’t have many of the varieties I was looking for. I get my watermelons from Whilhite, a local Texas seed company.They have a lot of hybrids they’ve developed themselves and can only be purchased from them. Watermelon is my favorite thing from the garden. I grew one last year that was the best thing I’ve ever eaten from a garden, vine or tree. Im sure it would’ve won in a watermelon festival for best taste. I used to grow a lot of melons and sell on the side of the road. I’m not even sure if it was a seed I planted or a seed leftover from the previous year. I throw all my leftover seeds from the melons I eat back into my garden. I saved the seeds from it to plant this year and hopefully it’ll be the same and not a hybrid. I save the seeds from my best tasting melon each year and replant those along with others I buy. Maybe I’ll develop a amazing watermelon by saving the seeds from my best tasting each year.
Baker creek! I’ve been buying seeds from them for the past 5-6 years. Since last spring they are often out of stock on many seeds, but still have an astonishing variety of heirloom seeds
Have you purchased seeds from The Dollar Tree or Dollar General? They have a lot of heirloom varieties & all the seeds are 4 for $1.
Subbed and checking out your channel brother. Right above you in Virginia! Thanks for the video.
asparagus seed available?
I was surprised at the germination rate of Burpee. I was leery but they’re good seeds.
I have had good experience with OSC in Canada. OSC is Ontario Seed Company. I like that on their website you can order much larger packets / weights and you get to see the entire catalog. Have generally had good luck with burpee seeds even with old seeds, surely their website is similar to OSC with allowing larger quantities in a package.
Hello, i am planning on buying watermelon/melon seeds(1 of each), what are some good types? And your personal favorites.
Absolutely love & highly recommend Bakercreek. High germination rates for most seeds.Check out the new introduction Okinawa Pink Okra. Southern exposure has retail locations if you want to save on shipping, https://www.southernexposure.com/retail-stores/ Also recommend https://www.seedsavers.org/ & https://hudsonvalleyseed.com/
What’s your opinion on seeds from EBay sellers who dry and sell seeds from their garden?
I’ve ordered from Bakers Creek n it’s usually the one I prefer. Had no idea Burpee does sales, gotta check them out. I was browsing their site n my eyes were like $$$ 🤣
I ha e bought from almost all you listed. I can’t recall their names right now but there several smaller west coast seed companies that are great as well.
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Renaissance Farms for Tomatoes 🍅 and Baker Creek (get some Canada Crookneck Squash seed for sure). Peace from MN
I’m looking for kaffir lime tree seeds and bitter melon seeds, for my wife. Can you suggest a company that is most likely to have viable seeds for sale for these plants ? Thank you for your time and consideration. Love your videos. 🕊️🙏💕💯
I have been ordering from Tomato Growers for 10 years and averaging over 95% germination and plants are very productive.
I have ordered from victory seed and baker’s creek. Have been happy with germination and quality of both. I grow in southern California.
Excellent video! I have used Burpee Seeds for years but you’ve really interested me in trying the others, especially the heirloom varieties. I’m going to order some of those catalogues. Just an aside: I love the "Adventures With Dale" feature! He’s so cute and seems a very happy dog. I have always had "pound puppies." I think they’re smarter, have better personalities than pure breeds and generally are all-around better dogs. And who knew they liked to garden, too?!
🙂 You never even mentioned DollarSeed.com Won’t you at least give us a try?
Seed Savers in Iowa! 💖
I like Adaptive seeds, Sand Hills Preservation, High Mowing and Annapolis seeds. All have heritage seeds and always have good luck with them.
Hey, thank you big time. I have abut 90% of my seeds for the season but I was still looking for some strawberry seeds and a few more unique tomato seed varieties. your video is a huge help.
Baker creek is great. For tomatoes look into wild boar farms for really interesting new hybrids. The guy is a tomatoe guru. I’ve grown a bunch of his new varieties and they are usually among my favorites. Annie’s annuals is another good seed catalog that you might want to check out.
Have you ever purchased seeds from these companies, or have you purchased seeds from other companies I didn’t list? What was your experience? Let us know in the Comments below!
Do you recommend freezing seeds that you aren’t going to use in the near future? Does that help them last longer?
Johnnys Seeds and Territorial seed company catalogs are like having 2 textbooks…they give the best and most extensive information about general varieties as well as specific seeds. You have to take time and read but they have excellent info on everything from ideal germination temps, days to germination, days to maturity and what sun exposure is ideal- water needs, height and width of mature plant- incredible catalogs!!
willhite seeds and seed savers exchange are good ones also .
I will vouch for Territorial being a good seed vender. I use them, Totaly Tomatos & Pine Tree seeds. I start all my own seeds and grow over 360 seedlings.I never have problems with germination with these seed venders.
I use Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (they are local, 1 hour away) for most of my seeds. I also use West Coast Seeds and Hoss Tools for the rest of my seed purchases.
I’m so impressed with the tiny Tim dwarf tomato we have growing in our indoor garden I plan to purchase multiple dwarf varieties from victoryseeds, I was already loading up the shopping cart when I got the notification for this video LOL
I ordered from southern seed exchange. First time growing indoors. We will see how there seeds do for me and my family.
For those in arid climates, I would recommend Native Search seeds.
Vesseys Seeds has an awesome selection.
Hey have you ever tried Holmes seed? I love them!
I was told they have sold out of their seeds