If you have a local nursery many times they will grow bulk seedlings for you at the same time they are seeding their own if you contact them far enough in advance. Some require that you provide the seed if you have specific varieties in mind.

For that many plants are you a licensed commercial operation? If so, Bonnie Plants used to sell wholesale plug flats of plants but I don't know if they still do. The link below is to a directory of wholesale suppliers all over the country - you just scroll down to the variety you want. But it is late to place orders with most of them and most won't sell direct to the public.

And Green Mountain Transplants is also worth checking out. I have purchased from them before but their selection is limited.

Hope this helps.

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: Wholesale Nursery Plant Suppliers

Check
http://www.selectedplants.com/
Better hurry though

dryground, You don't say where you live in SC. My friend Rodger Winn grows a large number of different tomato varieties each year. He lives in the Little Mountain area and sells his plants at his home and at the Farmer's Market.
E-mail me your location and how he might reach you. Perhaps you are close enough so that you could pick them up. This depends upon how many seedlings he has available this season.
Rodger is a serious grower; he list several of his seed varieties with Baker Creek and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. I know Rodger thru several heirloom groups in which we share interest.
I grew up in Spartanburg and now live in Louisville, Kentucky.
Gary

Hi, I would like to plant 200 to 300 tomato plants, I assume I would have to get them bulk without a pot. Anyone local have an idea or do you know where I can order some...Anita

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Anita, I think it would help to know what kinds of varieties you're thinking about, as in hybrids or OP heirlooms or what. And specific varieties or not.

I know several farmers who have tomato plants shipped up here to the NE from the south, and if I look at the list that Dave posted I might be able to find the one place in particular, and they do sell wholesale, but it isn't a place to get anything other than popular hybrids.

And someone posted a link to Darrel's selected plants but that wouldn't be a place to get lots of hybrids but would be a place to get some interesting Heirloom varieties, but I wonder if he even sells bulk amounts wholesale and he does ship in pots.

The places in the south that sell wholesale that I'm thinking of sell the plants in bunches tied together with no pots, as you mentioned in your post.

Carolyn

Perhaps not as close as you'd like, but this might be helpful.

Here is a link that might be useful: A nice variety

Perhaps not as close as you'd like, but this might be helpful.

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I had to chuckle a bit when I saw your link to a nice variety and it turned out to be Craig's home page. LOL

And he sells his plants at the Raleigh farmer's market, in pots, and we still don't know if Anita is looking for hybrids, OP's, or what varieties and how many of each variety are needed.

Carolyn

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Want buy bulk tomato plants

Same questions to you as the above ... Open Pollinated or hybrid? Slicer, salad or cherry? Red only or does it matter? Need more info in order to help you!

Some might not have room to start seeds, and might not have time to direct-seed. There are other alternatives, still, but yeah. (Or they might just not be comfortable starting them from seed, yet.) Buying plants and planting them also saves a lot of time, if money isn't a matter.

My grandfather grew tomatoes for Morgan Packing Company in Austin, Indiana back in the 60's and 70's. We used to drive to the facility and fill the back of his pickup (with racks) with boxed bulk tomato plants. Thousands of plants. I'm looking for about 70 plants myself without having to buy them singularly.

As a helpful alternative to buying tomato plants for transplanting, MEG offers tomato plants in grow bags. All they require is a sufficiently sunny spot and frequent watering.