I've had good luck with Fedco.

Johnny's

Also Territorial

I like Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.

Cindy

Depends on what you want. Johnny's, Twilley's Stokes are professional companies. If you are into "Heirlooms" Baker Creek is about the best, but Victory is good. Specialty companies like Totally Tomatoes, Tomato Grower's Supply are good for tomatoes and peppers. There are a lot of good companies out there.

I had good luck with Parks. Gurneys has been hit and miss for both seeds and live plants. Burpee always provided good live plants of varieties I couldn't find at my local nursery, but they always seemed overpriced for seed.

I second Johnny's and Territorial. It may be worth thinking a little about climate. One reason I order from Johnny's and Territorial is that they endure maritime climates just like me, so they tend to have a lot of varieties for cooler summers or shorter seasons.

Territorial has a program for fall planting, although climate really does make a difference.

Johnny's has a great selection of lettuces.

Burpee a good selection of plants.

I like Southern Exposure Seed Exchange for general vegetables and perennial alliums and Totally Tomatoes for peppers and tomatoes.

Rodney

I highly recommend www.sampleseeds.com... great seeds at a great price and wonderful customer service :-)

Most of my seeds I buy from a seed company in Texas because they generally only sell stuff that does well in Texas.

I ordered this year from Jung Seed (jungseed.com) and The Sample Seed Shop (sampleseeds.com) and was very happy with both. :)

Kathy

In addition to the good general-purpose seed vendors I think it is really worth looking into some that specialize in your region. I'm in Alaska, and Denali Seed / bestcoolseeds.com and a few small specialists carry seeds that will do well here and can give locally relevant growing advice.

I'm in zone 9, northern CA valley area. I don't think I need any specialized seeds.

Thanks for the recommendations.

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Rodney

Thanks, Rodney. Looks like they took it out. Good to know Houzz gets rid of spam.

tj

Anything I can get from Fedco I get from them. They won't work with Monsanto. They are very transparent about the seeds. They have different size packets to choose from. Their prices are excellent. I also recommend High Mowing for sure. Territorial, Baker Creek, Johnny's and Irish Eyes are ok too. I would never order from the big conglomerate companies like Gurney's, Parks, Burpee etc. For rare tomatoes try Tatiana's tomatoes out of Vancouver.

D landreth is good seed company

I bought from them many years.

Johnny's was the only one who followed through on sending the catalog, so they got my business. I was planning on buying from them anyway. So far I am very happy. We'll see how the seeds do!

I bought a couple seed packets from Harris I couldn't find elsewhere and they were sent prompt and without issue as well.

Hey weirdtrev, looks like that link now just goes to Jung, fyi.

Strange. I've ordered from egardenersplace for a few years since there was a flat rate shipping. I guess the Jung conglomerate stopped doing the one-stop-shop thing, which also means I'll be less likely to order from them (I'm not about to pay all the separate shipping).

Rodney