Sources for Vegetable, Flower and Native Grass Seeds

As most gardeners know, it is cheaper to start your own vegetable and flower plants if you have the space and a warm well-lighted area. This is especially important for vegetable plants because of plant diseases that show up in vegetable plants purchased at big department stores. For example, the tobacco mosaic virus affects tomato and pepper plants and is spread on the hands of tobacco smokers. The disease can get a foothold when a smoker touches one tomato plant on the display rack of a department store. If you buy that six pack of baby tomato plants, you can have big problems as the virus spreads throughout your tomato crop. Here is a list of some of the flower and vegetable seed suppliers I have used over the years and would recommend to my friends and readers.

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Totally Tomatoes: http://www.totallytomato.com/ Totally tomatoes has the best catalogue and website around with lots of tomato and pepper picures with complete descriptions.

Johnny's Seeds: http://www.johnnyseeds.com/ Johnny's seeds is a great source of annual flower as well as vegetables and herb seeds. Many selections of untreated organic seed are available along with a good selection of heirloom seeds. Johnny's also offers books, tools and even gift certificates.

Harris Seeds: http://www.harrisseeds.com/ Harris seeds also offers gift certificates as well as a wide selection of vegetable and flower seeds. Also, they offer a perennial and annual flowering plant plug program for the nursery or landscape professional. They have organic and untreated seed and popular items rarely end up on backorder.

Seeds of Change: http://www.seedsofchange.com/ Specializing in organic, heirloom and hard to find native plant seeds. You'll learn something every time you have a look at their amazing catalogue or website. Reasonable prices on hard to find items.

Wildseed Farms: http://www.wildseedfarms.com/ Located in Fredericksburg, Texas, wildseed farms offers an amazing variety of wildflower seeds and seed mixes. They now sell cut flower and bedding type plant seeds such as zinnias and sunflowers. The descriptions of each variety of plant is excellent with great pictures on both the website and in the catalogue.

Native American Seed: http://www.seedsource.com/ This seed company, located in Junction, Texas, has a philosophy and work ethic that should be rewarded if you buy a packet of wildflower or native grass seed for a flower bed or 50 pounds of seed to rehabilitate an entire meadow. They offer root divisions of some of our favorite native plants so you can create a natural area in your landscape quickly and easily. They offer a great catalogue with charts of where each plant they offer will do best. There is a consulting service available for large projects. They are one of the few reliable sources of native grass seed.

Dixondale Farms: http://www.dixondalefarms.com/ You cannot find a better source of onion sets and onion growing information anywhere, in my opinion. They offer onions suitable for everywhere in the US with great descriptions of each variety. You can place your order early and they will ship at the appropriate time for your planting zone.