Seed Haul, My Top Seed Companies and Organizing
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- I got in a few small deliveries of seeds and thought i would share them with you, MI Gardener, Seeds and Such and discussing Baker Creek and others. What my top seed companies are, and why. Also I'v got to get my seed storage under control before seed starting season starts and so that I know what I need to order. Thank you for watching, If you have any questions about companies or products I use please drop me a comment.
Here is a link for the garden journal I’ve been using, it’s not perfect but it’s keeping me on track a bit
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MIGardener packets are $2/pkg, I agree with the package information which was one of their main goals; affordable seeds and necessary information to be successful in growing those seeds into full maturity. I separate my seeds by cool vs warm weather first; then moist stratify vs dry stratify vs direct sow vs warm moist stratify 2kws then cold moist stratify (chamomile etc.) vs dry freeze 1 day then soak 1 day then direct sow (catnip) vs soak over night then direct sow, Ugh! This is why I have garden planners; one from MIGardener and 1 TN which I completed myself. I have ordered the Etsy shop Blind Pig and the Acorn (youtube Celebrating Appalachia) calendar like I used to see on my Grandparents 400 acre farm kitchen cabinet. Pappy was a Rohrer;) I love the 5 year journal!!! I'd love to hear about your garden plan for this year. Decisions, decisions. Do you preserve? If so, how? Suscribed and shared.
Thank you subscribing & this great comment. Honestly I’m starting so many seeds this year & I don’t have enough lights in the house for all of them so I’m going to winter sow a bunch which simplifies the stratification issue. We are putting in a ton of new garden beds this year and turning the front yard into new cottage garden so we need a ton of plants… need… 🤣🤣 want all the plants 🤣 preserving: canning, pickling, drying. I want to get brave and ferment… maybe this year. Thank you so much
I also freeze a bunch because I get super busy with family, work and the garden that things get away from me and I can toss in the freezer until I have time to do something with them. I looked up the blind pig comment, I love finding recipes from Appalachian channels and websites. Very cool.
I'm the same I don't like to order seeds from companies that don't put pictures on the packages, las year I ordered from pinetreee seeds and their packaging has no pictures I ended up cutting pictures from some of my old seed catalogs and sticking the pictures on the seed packets.
OMG that’s a great idea, I think I’m going to try that out. Thank you so much
Their prices are good though.
Are you saying that Pinetree seeds are good? iv never heard of them, you guys have me interested hmmmm@@martystevens2313
Loved this video! New subscriber 💚🌱
Thank you so much ☺️ and thank you for subscribing
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼💚✨💯🇦🇬
I have fun making these videos and have a bunch more unboxing and seed hauls on the way. Thank you 😊
Thanks for planting a seed in my mind😎
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I agree with everything you said! I only ordered from them (seeds and such)for the sun gold tomatoes as well. But they grew well until the hornworms started popping up. Very good and sweet.
I bought a black light flash light after I had a hornworm attack. I only found 1 but I think the birds found the others and ate them. I keep a birdbath in my garden and bird feeders nearby to attract them and so far they have helped me out 😁 plus the birds make the yard sound so beautiful. Thank you for sharing
Great info..i hate $ 200 minimum is too much..love all the great tips!
And the shipping fees go up with every $10 increment. But I do like their color varieties on flowers…..
I'm trying to get more organized for 2024 too. MI Gardener is one of my favorite and ordered a lot of my seeds from there with great results. I like the beautiful pictures from Bakers Creek but have never order from them. Never heard of Rohrer's Seeds before your video and can't wait to see your field trip to learn more. Thank you for all this great information and ideas.
I literally just got home from Rohrer seeds and will work on the video this weekend. It was a super fun experience. Thank you.
I like your seed organizing container.
Thank you. I’m gonna guess that they would be on sale now or right after the new year. Because organizing stuff goes on sale after the holidays. More stuff from Christmas= need to organize … well at least it makes sense to me 🤣
@gardenandgrease I need one so I might check on that soon.
You are right about seeds and such. I won’t order from them again. Loved your video!!
Thank you 😊
Agree. Pretty much on everything. Good luck with the winter sowing. I love it for any hardy annuals (that transplant relatively well) or biennials I was too busy to start on time.
Thank you. I have a ton of perennials and hardy annuals so it’s going to be a big sowing project. Trying to get everyone I know to save their jugs for me. I think I’m going to also try some in plastic tubs.
thank u for sharing, some of seed company haven't seen before. the best germination one i brought were from the dollar store, price factor seems to means less now a days
I haven’t tried many of their seeds, but you’ve got me thinking. I might try a side by side experiment of dollar store vs expensive seed to see if the money is even worth it. I’ve had great luck with the flower bulbs I’ve gotten there and was shocked. Thank you so much for the reminder.
You are absolutely correct about Bakers Creek about not giving enough information. Since I'm pretty good with growing seeds. Johnny Seeds takes a lot of my money because of their great information and germinate rates. My first time ordering seeds I spent a lot of money on people just selling seeds with no information. I almost gave up that year. But I listened to a lot of people that gives you information about different companies selling seeds and the good ones. I could say I rather as much information on the package than pretty pictures. When you spend time on seeds, soil for seeding, heating mats, lights and most of all my time. I would spend the money. Every gardener is different. I don't have patience for bad seeds. It's good to shop with different companies to see which one with the best seeds. Bakers Creek so far is one of the best besides Johnny seeds.
I’m going to do a small order from them this year and do a side by side growing experiment with multiple seed companies. Johnnys has a huge variety of colors that I don’t see anywhere else. I literally have a list wrote down of which ones I want and haven’t pulled the trigger yet. You have pushed me over the line and I will do it. Their seed packet info looks amazing. Thank you for the great and convincing info.
Their seeds use to only be a dollar a pack (with half off on season end sales). I bought almost everything they had one year...and more post; but as I examined my seed packs through my growing seasons, I discovered many packets were far less than the number of seeds and even some packets completely empty, but sealed. They fixed a few...(but with growing pains, got a bit grumpy and left my large losses completely unresolved)...so sadly I eventually found other fabulous seed sources.
Which seed company are you talking about? Seeds and such? Because some of those packets were poorly sealed and it seamed like there weren’t many seeds in the packet.
These storage containers are great! I have 4 of them, 2 for flower seeds and 2 for vege seeds. I just label them alphabetically by vegetable type etc
Yeah I was at first thinking about alphabetical. And honestly I was going thru the tote last night looking for something and it took me a bit to find it. Alphabetical might turn out to be best. I will do an update next year on my experience with it. Thank you
thanks for this, I haven't even started with my seeds yet , I am hoping to try some Albeit Cucumbers this year, last year my cuc's were so strange shaped lol , thought I'd try a whole new variety that is known to do well.
Yeah I’ve made the mistake… and keep making it, of buying seeds that are “new” in the catalogs or look really cool. Then they do horribly or get diseases really bad. The tried and true seeds that have been used for years tend to do best. Thank you.
I got that same organizer for my seeds from Hobby Lobby.
It was a great deal, I couldn’t help myself. Now I wish I had 2, one of the multi colored ones, for flower seeds…… not that I actually need it tho 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@gardenandgrease I have 2. initially I mixed all seeds and simply stored them in alphabetical order…now u have me rethinking…perhaps I should put the flowers in their own box 🤔🌱😁🤷🏽♀️
🤣 I keep rethinking this system, but honestly keeping the flowers separate is working great. I wish i had bought a 2nd box, to separate my veggies a little bit more, and when I added my seeds I saved, the boxes were too full. thank you. @@Thankful_.
Instead of raising prices most of them just reduced the amount of seeds in each packet. Great video!
I agree. Some packets only have 20-25 seeds when they used to have 50 🤦🏻♀️ thank you
Select seeds is good. Yes, they do have pictures on their packets. Johnnys catalog is really good even if the seeds are more expensive. They have extensive growing info in the catalog.
I’ve never thought about using the catalogue as a resource for growing info but your right. Their packets are full of info from what I’ve seen online. I’m going to do an order from them this year and give them a review. Thank you
I feel the same about Seeds and Such. Not only do you get zero information on how to grow, but if they are having a sale, you may have to wait 2 or 3 weeks to get your order. I want to try MIGardener this year. Most of my seeds come from Baker Creeks or Botanical Interests.
Yeah I waited at least 3 weeks for those seeds. Sign up to get Mi gardener emails and when they have a free shipping special, stock up.
Wow. Im watching, while reminding myself that i will NOT be buying alot of seeds this year. 😅😊😅😂
🤣🤣🤣 that’s what I said….. but I’m getting ready to go to a seed store right now 🤣🤣
@@gardenandgreaselol that’s what I was going to say I’m a new gardener my moms been teaching me she’s like a garden goddess. I have a lot of seeds but when I see a sale I can’t resist my store gives away a lot of free seeds every year at the end of June so I take as much as I can get
@@DianaTorez 🤦🏻♀️ I have been buying seeds already for next year 🤣🤣🤣🤣 but the sales are hard to pass up.. 50% off on some. I am being more strict tho and only buying what we will actually eat or flowers that I can’t live with out 🤣🤣🤣
In my photo storage I have my seeds cataloged by types. My tomatoes are done by determinate and indeterminate. I have a calendar marked with post it as to when to plant what. But I don't have a bunch of seeds. I may only have 5-6 photo boxes filled with seeds. I'm just starting out, because I need to cut my fresh food bill. The rabbit who lives in my daughter's room costs a fortune to feed.
🤣🤣🤣 pets aren’t cheap. I really want a lop eared or holland rabbit….. but that’s a no go… for now. Thank you for telling me how you do yours, I may end up trying it different next year. But going to give this method a go first before I change it up.
I always get seedsnsuch seed for the simple fact that I have always had true to package seeds and awesome germination and ifyou get a certain amount all the seed package is cheaper. It's worth it to me to do the research anyway
The ones that I have tried in the past did good. And I honestly research everything I grow til there’s no more new info online 🤣🤣🤣 but I like the packets for quick reference. I honestly need to start printing out all the info for everything I grow and putting it in a binder. Thank you for your comment
I have a similar complaint about Seeds and such. I hate that there’s no information or even a picture. I did place a second order because they had some flower seeds I wanted & couldn’t find anywhere else and they had a sale but my debit card flagged them as a fraudulent charge and that was a mess. Over a week later they still haven’t shipped so we’ll see…it will definitely be my last order 🙄
Fraudulent 🤣🤣🤣 maybe it should have been a red flag for you 🤣🤣 it took almost 3 weeks to get my seeds, I assumed it was because so many orders from the sale….. thank you for sharing your experience
Good information but drop the "pop" sounds. So annoying with earbuds...
Good info, we’re new at all of this and figuring it out. Thank you.
In Sweden every seedpack cost that much or more.. 5$ to 10$.. and sometimes not more then 5 seeds inside.. 😓
WOW… I had no idea. Do you seed save? I would for sure be seed saving. That makes me feel so much better about the seed costs now. Thank you for opening my eyes.
@@gardenandgrease Yes I try.. Poppies are very easy to save seeds from.. I’m taking seeds from store bought tomatoes.. peppers, chilis and last year I got a pretty good variety of both chilis and tomatoes from ordinary food stores.. But I live in north Sweden, with 3 months of summer and 6 months of cold winter.. this winter it’s been up to -40.. need to start with my plants as early as January.. If I want things to bring fruit before autumn.. because we can have snow in September.. 🫣
@@themischievoustwo6594 Our last frost is April 21 and first freeze about October 15, about 6 months. But our winters generally don't dip into single digit Fahrenheit for too long, but stay in the teens and 20s at night. In years past i'v started everything indoors in grow light area but this year I'm going to try winter sowing for a bunch of stuff. The cool thing about peppers that I noticed last year was I had peppers growing on my plants indoors 🤣 Fingers crossed we all have a great growing year.
@@gardenandgrease Wow! We can’t even be sure of the last frost in June.. Some summers we have had snow in the middle of June.. Not the normal thing, but it can be pretty cold. If you have good plant lamps, you can have salad in hydroponic pots, though.. It works, but the leaves get really thin and not very lush as if you had planted them outside..