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Who do you purchase your veg & flower seeds from (online or catalog)?

I've tried Burpee. What other seed companies should I take a look at? Don, I'm in the Midwest.

Public Comments

1. I like Seeds of Change, and Seed Savers Exchange. Mostly because I think Monsanto is an ugly influence on the planet, and they pretty much own all the other traditional seed companies.
2. In the Pacific Northwest, try Territorial Seed Company, they have seeds and package instructions more attuned to our rainier, cooler climate. Another choice is not buying seeds at all, but rather save your own seeds, trade with other gardeners, and explore old time non-hybrid varieties from various seed-savers guilds.
3. Midwesterner, I would go with Sandhill Preservation (in Iowa)
4. I have ordered from Gurney's and Henry Field's for close to 30 yr. They are the same company now but have some different items. Nichol's Garden Nursery, Jung's and Johnny's selected Seeds are all good. For the larger companies I like Park's and Thompson & Morgan.
5. Give Nature Hills a try. Quality seeds at a low price. http://www.naturehills.com/catalog/Seeds.aspx
6. I like Seeds of Change, Territorial, and Parks the most although I order from a lot of different ones - I'm into catalogs. The Cook's Garden is still okay, tho they got bought out a couple years ago. Brown's Omaha Plant Farms had great onion plants and Ronniger's used to sell me wonderful potato varieties (can't plant potatoes any more - water restrictions). Native Seeds/SEARCH is also good for heirloom varieties. I like checking out tomato and pepper seeds from Totally Tomatoes and Tomato Grower's Seed Company too.
7. I like Pine Tree seeds a LOT. they are a little company, have great prices, and a lot of open pollinated seeds. i still mostly grow hybrids, because I am in central MN and our season is super short, but I do grow quite a few open pollinated things too. I don't like Henry Fields/Gurneys - they sent me seed contaminated with another variety twice (blew my whole snap pea crop - they mixed it with garden peas that had inedible pods, and I couldn't visually tell which was which, another time, it was 1/3 of my Early Girl seeds were some weird tomato that didn't taste very good, and was too big to be a cherry tomato & too small to slice) and also sent my blueberry plants so early last spring that the ground was still frozen - mid April in north central MN? Get real! Pine Tree didn't send them until early May. Jung's has also been good to me - all the seeds have been ok, and the leek plants I ordered last year were sent at the right time.