Best Online Store to buy seeds?

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Local store sells them for the same amount, you get 8-12 spuds for about $10-16 a bag.
I have a little store up the road, then a meadows farm nursery, but meadows is pricey. No idea about the little store up the road, went there in the fall and they had nothing really left, but even those prices were high.
Southern exposure would be about 1.5-2hrs. Prices look the same as other stores, even big box stores. But maybe you guys are only comparing the rare and purely organic seeds?
I pickle any kind of cucumber, I choose seeds based on which might mature fastest and most fruit. Size, color or "official use" doesn't mean anything, they all turn out to be yummy cukes.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i've bought from in past years: Johnny's Seeds (can be pricey on the shipping-based on price of purchase), Fedco Seeds (gives multiple packet size options), Pine Tree. these suppliers are local so i try to stick with them. i have a local greenhouse that orders from Johnny's so if i don't want the expensive shipping i can order what i want through the greenhouse since they will order everything in bulk.

Baker's Creek is one of my favorites for the unusual or 'new' heirlooms that i know will germinate reliably. I also order through ebay from OhioHeirloomSeeds.com he has a website but sometimes i get deals from his ebay store. Mike's been my go-to guy for lots of heirloom tomatoes that are coming from Russan/Ukranian/and colder regions that do well for me. shipping is flat rate too!

If you are buying plants online you might want to check with http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/ before making a purchase. i find it a handy website when i get a catalog that i've never heard of but see lots of goodies i think i can't live without. i got some plants years ago from one of these 'reliable suppliers' and basically got dead plants-potatoes were moldy lumps, out of 100 strawberry plants only 10 grew that season and the other plants sent in pots with mud were non existent. about the only thing that grew for me was the flower bulbs which have since died off.

oh, forgot i have bought potatoes from PotatoGarden.com this is where i got my start of Purple Viking. i found no one else grows them here in NH and they've been reliable ever since. i got most of my other potato types from local farmer's markets and the feed store.

i got onion plants from Dixondale a few years ago but they are in TX so it's a different area and selection than what is needed here in the Naw'th.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

One I'll make mention of (if only because it doesn't usually wind up on other peoples lists) is Trade Winds Fruit (http://tradewindsfruit.com/) As I said this usually isn't one you'll see on most of the top 10 lists of online seed companies, since it mostly specializes in tropical seeds for the "advanced" tropical grower (i.e. the kind who either live somewhere super warm or have the kind of dough to have a greenhouse on their property big enough to grow full sized trees and other rainforest material). But they have ALWAYS had a surprisingly diverse selection of things like tomato and pepper seeds, incuding strains I have never seen anywhere else (at one point they, even had a full compliment of alternate "species" of tomato, which allowed me to play around with whether some of the wilder members would do better in my hard conditions). Similarly their selection of herbs has a pretty wide base (if you ever wanted to try all of the species of basil in the world, this is the place to go to.)

That brings up a good point, if you are truly committed to the odd and the exotic, it pays to look into pretty much ANY online seed source once or twice, even if you don't think they are within the "section" you are interested in. A lot of them have surprises you wouldn't expect. Sacred Succulents (which mostly deals in xerophytes, and in world wide ethno botanicals) has some really obscure Chilean veggies seeds, like several wild tomatoes, peppers and potatoes, and the Ojo de Dios Fava bean. Ricter's herbs has the Seed Zoo (sort of the predecessor of Baker Creeks Explorer series) which , expensive and picked over as it is, still has a lot of fairly rare and obscure veggies ) To quote the old song "Shop, shop around"

 

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Any of these do Paypal payments? Have some cash in Paypal I'd like to use up before using anything else.

Harris and Johnnys don't accept Paypal.

http://www.rareseeds.com Does. Any others?

 

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NVM, bought some from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.

 

[Jared77]

I use Baker Creek, Seed Savers Exchange, Victory Heirloom Seed Company. Between those 3 I usually find everything I need. Pun less it's an oddity that I'm seeking out but those I know are special order items.

 

[flowerweaver]

I get the bulk of my seeds from Bakers Creek, Native Seed/SEARCH (the latter be most adapted to my climate), and seed trades with friends, but I also seek out smaller ecologically-minded growers: Adaptive Seeds, Wild Garden Seeds, Uprising Seeds, Fertile Valley Seeds (Carol Deppe). For tomatoes: Trade Winds Fruit, Amishland Seeds, Tater-Mater Seeds, and Wild Boar Farms. For Asian greens: Evergreen Seeds. For herbs: Horizon Herbs. For flowers: Swallowtail Gardens.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I think Baker Creek prices are good.