Vegetable Seed Ordering

[ericrm2005]

Its just about time to start thinking about what seeds and such to order for the 2012 gardening season.

I wanted to put this thread out there and see where everyone gets their seed. I have used gurneys and henry fields in the past. I wanted to try something new this year if anyone has any better suggestions. Both of these companies offer a pretty good selection, but the prices arent great unless u order when they have one of their 50 dollars free for every 50 dollars spent deals.

I usually plant about an acre of garden space(about half of which is sweet corn).

Im looking forward to getting things started indoors and hearing where everyone is getting their seed this year

 

[hunterridgefarm]

I get some seed from my local farm supply. I have also ordered from Johnny's Seeds, Harris Seed, and Burpee. All are easy to find on the internet. I have had good success from all three.

 

[NorTracNY]

If you find that you get more seeds than you need, you might want to try Pinetree. They have a great selection, and their prices are great. They typically have smaller packages than most places. I just planted my alpine strawberries this weekend.

 

[bp fick]

Shipping kills you on small orders, effectively doubling your seed costs. There are many fine seed companies out there. Some I like better than others. Johnny's is pretty high on everyone's list, including mine.

Finding a local seed house, nursery, farm/garden supply can save you all that shipping. Shoot, even Dollar General and Family Dollar will have a display with 4 packages for $1, kind of thing. For small patches, this keeps your seed costs down.

If we can keep our seed costs below $500-$600, getting the varieties we want, we're pretty happy.

 

[randy41]

I get seed from Johnnys and Fedco for the most part.

 

[Western]

I either buy from Gurney's, Burpee, but generally from my local feed supplies or even walmart for small packets.

I wont buy any more plants online or mail order like roses ect tra, haven't ever had good luck with live plants. I find locally grown works much better since they are adapted better to our climate.

 

[ericrm2005]

I used to buy all of seeds locally and still do actually buy some at the local feed stores and such.

I actually have not had much success with burpees seeds germinating two years in a row. I got the seeds from a local k-mart. It is certainly possible they recycled the seeds or possibly it was just a fluke. I am not sure.

I started getting from the mail order places a few years ago due to the fact that they had some different varieties of things I wanted to try that I hadnt found locally.

 

[YesDeere]

Ive tried a few like schumways and totally tomatoes. But I always end up back at Meyer seed Co. They are in Baltimore and have a good storefront (they do mail order also). Plus the wife can pick them up on way home.

 

[forgeblast]

Baker creek is getting a lot of my $ now. I am pretty impressed with the seeds. I had scarlett runner beans produce all summer long last year.

 

[charlz]

Since I like the Gurney's Gotta-Have-It sweet corn I usually order that and whatever other stuff I want through them. If not available through them I try to pick it up locally. For things like pumpkins and gourds I save seed from the year before and see what I get. Sometimes you get some interesting crosses the next year.

I like Butternut squash and grow Burpee's Butterbush, I can get seeds locally through various stores. They usually hold over pretty well in the garage. This year I am trying some cubed and frozen. Since it gets cooked and mashed down it likely doesn't matter if it gets soft from the freezing process. Two years ago I had planted some following corn and the extra nitrogen in the soil caused them to grow really long in the upper part. This would actually be a benefit to the cubing process as you can just cut off the part with seeds and compost it with plenty of meat for cubing in the upper part. Would save lots of time dealing with scraping out seeds and the stringy stuff around them. They slowly go bad over winter so I am hoping cubing and freezing will let me have winter squash all through summer until the next crop is ready late fall.