Glenn Beck advertises for a Non-hybrid seed company; however, it costs $165 for one can of seeds (acre of planting). There must be a cheaper option. Anybody know?
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Glenn Beck advertises for a Non-hybrid seed company; however, it costs $165 for one can of seeds (acre of planting). There must be a cheaper option. Anybody know?
It may not suit all of your needs, but last year I bought some heirloom plants and harvested the seeds from them. My garden is pretty small scale.
Here's a source http://www.heirloomseeds.com/ (I have not purchased anything from this site, so I can't give you a review)
Check this company out.
http://www.non-hybrid-seeds.com/sp/
and also this one.
http://www.mvseeds.com/gardencan.html
These are my wifes links so I can not say personally how good the seeds or company's are.
But I will ask her and see if we bought anything from either one. and will let ya know
i bought a non-hybrid seed kit from AAOOB Foods. They took some time to get here but they came packed in a weather and moisture proof can for indefintie storage.
http://www.aaoobfoods.com/
Jeepers! For those prices they ought to come out and plant them for you. Although 5 gallons of seeds is a LOT of seeds. The other thing about buying a packaged product is you are getting seeds for plants you may not like/want or may not have space or the right soil conditions for. Melons require a sandy soil, for example, for best production. I have great garden soil but can't grow melons very well because it isn't sandy.
Buy heirloom seeds, as Crash said, and harvest your own seeds. You'll get only the plants you want/like and can manage them to you personal needs.
WOW the prices really went up. i got the two gallon kit for $40.00. The price doubled since then. Supply and demand i guess.
i used to buy carrot seed in 5 gallon buckets from a farmer in brevard county NC.
part wild, the carrots would be a light orange or pale white, verry large and tasty.
if you want natural seed start with wild plants of that species save and use seed from individual plants that exibit the characteristics that you want, and dont use the rest, (size, color, sweetness,weather hardieness).
http://www.floridata.com/ref/h/heli_tub.cfm
http://s567.photobucket.com/albums/s...0Paw%20blossom
this is a Paw Paw blossom! yum
try ebay as well, many individual seed savers will sell their excess on there. Kinda like a gardener seed exchange, but for a nominal fee.
here is a Paw Paw blossom!
http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/s...ngfeast001.jpg
I think I mightve mentioned in another post that I started my garden (my first one!) this year with Just whatever seeds we had laying around the house, some stuff people gave away and whatever else we just bought from the store in whatever form. Other than my Brandywine tomatoes that I ordered I have no idea what's hybrid and whats not, I expect most of it is.
For next years garden I hope to switch over to non hybrid everything though,
So are non-hybrids that rare these days that you mostly have to order them special?
I don't think it's so much that they're rare, but rather growers have "engineered" plants to do well in certain climates and environments. For many, they would rather buy a seedling that produces a higher yeild than worry about harvesting seeds.
Dont know if anyone is interested or not, and I certainly hope this isnt considered as advertising (I wont mention the name of my store), but I run an online store filled with survival gear and I have wholesale accounts with some heirloom and organic seed distributors.
If interested, I can order seeds for anyone. The only condition is that its a 5 pack minimum (distributors rules, not mine), and each pack runs about 4-5 bucks depending on the type of seed.
I'd be happy to pass along the discount to people here.
If interested, PM me please.
Another site to check out www.survivalseedbank.com their prices aren't to bad.
I think the problem with places like survivalseedbank is you are locked in to a preset package. You wind up receiving seeds for plants that you may not like or want. If you could pick and choose which ones you wanted then it would be a much better bargain, IMHO.
The upside is you can read through those types of web sites and if you see a plant you are interested in then you can search for it on the net and just buy those seeds.
Thats the huge problem with SSB. Good ideas, but depending on where you live, alot of the seeds could be worthless to someone who doesnt live in the proper growing zone. It could end up being a large waste of money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
I think we got ours at Home Depot, Lowes and maybe even Wal-Mart!
Everything this year minus zucchini was grown from seeds and our broccoli is like 2ft tall already. (Late growing season at our altitude.)