cheapest place to buy vegetable seeds?

Question

I am on a limited budget and want to grow my own veg in pots. Can anyone recommend anywhere that sells the seeds cheaply? I need either online or shops. I am looking for good quality ie will grow into veg.

Answer 1

I just got some at Woolworths, where they are doing a buy 1 get 1 free on seeds. And they are Mr Fothergill's so good quality.

Answer 2

Any garden center, or even stores like walmart, target, etc, sells seeds. There are also a lot of online shops out there that sell them. Believe it or not, they are not very expensive at all. A packet (which contains between 10 and 100 seeds depending on the plant. More than enough for your pots) costs between $1 and $5. There are also specialty seed stores out there which sell seed in bulk, but that's probably not what you are interested in.

Answer 3

Cheap is JUNK when it comes to seeds. Enven those Burpee seeds or Northrop in the stores arent any good. Fancy packets is about all one gets. Ive planted them and Big Boy tomatoes turned out to be Cherry tomatoes, and head lettuce turned out to be leaf letteuce.

I suggest since you are only growing in pots, that you buy them already started. Just to start tomatoes you'd need sterile medium, that costs like $3 a bag and you cannot plant directly into outside dirt either, there is "damping out' a disease found in the soil that wilts and kills young seedlings.

Do not neglect the pot soil that you plant in. That is the key here. I am sure you will get some good seedlings, However, each type of veggie takes a special kind of soil type especiallly in a pot. For example, you can grow really good onions in a pot from bulbs, but one needs a loam soil and enrich that with super phospate( bone meal). On the other hand, tomatoes like loose rich even clay soil with vermiculite to loosen it up and prevent water logging it with lots of 10-10-10 fertilizer and a mix of ordinary cow manure in there too.

Great to see you doing this Its such a rewarding experience and dont be discouraged if some thing turn out badly, there will be plenty of sucesses to make your day!

I buy my seeds from Henry Fields on line and they are ALWAYS what they say and very good with near 80% germination as well as the exact kind one ordered.

Answer 4

Ace also has some 69¢ packages from Ferry Morse seeds that are very good

Answer 5

Ace hardware used to sell them 10 packets for $1.00. Now it's 5 for $1.00.

Answer 6

you get what you pay for im afraid buy F1 otherwise waste of any money no matter how cheap