Hello Fellow Gardeners,

When I was a young boy in Wisconsin, every year when winter rolled around and the cold January and February winds blew and dreams of green grass and soft warm winds haunted us, our mailbox filled up with the welcoming and oh so colorful  Spring gardening and seed catalogs. This is still is a reminder to me that spring is just around the corner. Those catalogs are much more numerous today and are just as welcome. Here I have compiled some favorite links and resources to help fill your mailbox with these welcome signs of spring.

If you want to get a jump on your spring time gardening, order your seed catalogs and seeds early. Tomatoes and peppers especially can be started in doors anytime after mid-January to be set outside in June. Get a jump on your neighbors and grow the biggest tomatoes in the neighborhood!

I have compiled and updated the following list of favorite seed catalogs that I have used myself in the past. The links should go directly to the free catalog order form page 98% of the time. If you have a favorite seed catalog you would like included here, please contact me with the name of the seed catalog you would like to see listed!

Cheers and Happy Gardening!

Chris Campbell - FreeSeedCatalogs.com

P.S. Don't forget to recycle!

Tomato Growers Supply Company

One of the best tomato seed catalogs, order this catalog early so you can claim title to master tomato grower!

Nichols Garden Nursery Catalog

Supplying seeds and plants by mail for over 50 years, the Nichols family seeks out choice and unusual garden varieties. You will find the finest and most interesting selection of vegetables, herbs and flowers from around the world. As gardeners and cooks , they truly delight in providing seeds and plants for delicious and productive gardens.

This has been one of my favorite seed catalogs for years. They have a lot of gourmet and rare vegetable seed and great Elephant Garlic seed. Highly recommended!

Peaceful Valley Farm & Garden Supply
 
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply has been promoting organic sustainable agriculture for over 25 years and were one of the very first and few ventures in the country to offer organic supplies. They are dedicated to healing the earth by providing farmers and gardeners with cost-effective, state-of-the-art organic growing supplies and the information and tools needed to apply them.

My wife's sister Carol worked here and their product is great. They are very true to sticking to organic principles. Tell them FreeSeedCatalogs.com sent ya!

Burpee Seed Company

The Burpee Seed Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1876 by an 18 year-old with a passion for plants and animals and a mother willing to lend him $1000 dollars of "seed money" to get started in business. Within 25 years he had developed the largest, most progressive seed company in America. By 1915 he was mailing a million catalogues a year to America's gardeners.


Johnny's Selected Seeds

One of my favorites and an independent seed catalog company since 1973, Johnny's Selected Seeds provides a wide selection of quality vegetable, flower, and herb seeds to critical home gardeners and small commercial growers. Johnny's carries vegetable and flower seed, culinary, medicinal and aromatic herb seeds, as well as an assortment of gardening tools, garden supplies, and home garden accessories.

PEPPER JOE'S

PEPPER JOE'S Pepper Joe says,"Our peppers and tomatoes are loaded with important vitamins and minerals. That's why they're bright and vibrant, growing on robust plants virtually pest-free. We encourage ladybugs and praying mantis to thrive, keeping pesky bugs at a minimum. We refuse to use synthetic insecticides, herbicide, fungicides or chemicals"


Stokes Seed

Stokes offers the highest quality seeds and accessories for both home gardeners and commercial growers. Choose from our extensive listing of vegetables, annuals, perennials, pot plants and herbs as well as helpful accessories to enhance your gardening experience.


Henry Fields Seed and Nursery

Henry Fields Seed and Nursery have been supplying home garden enthusiasts with seed and nursery supplies for decades. Top quality and large selection.


Gurney's

Here's one of the first seed catalogs I fell in love with:

A few years ago Gurney's was sold to a much larger direct mail oriented company, Foster and Gallagher. A Little while after, Foster and Gallagher declared bankruptcy, unfortunately putting thousands of people out of work, and leaving tens of thousands of loyal Gurney's customers with no place to turn. A group of lifelong mail order gardeners bought Gurney's at a bankruptcy hearing a few months later, and, with your help, we'll restore it to the glory days of old.

Seed Savers Exchange (SSE)

Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization that is saving "heirloom" (handed-down) garden seeds from extinction. SSE's 8,000 members grow and distribute heirloom varieties of vegetables, fruits, grains, SSE's main focus is on heirloom varieties that gardeners and farmers brought to North America when their families immigrated, and traditional varieties grown by Native Americans, Mennonites and Amish. Since SSE was founded in 1975, their members have distributed an estimated 750,000 samples of endangered seeds not available through catalogs and often on the verge of extinction. SSE has always been the leader of the heirloom seed movement, and the diligent efforts of their members is making rare heirloom varieties available to gardeners everywhere.

Jackson & Perkins

Jackson & Perkins was founded in 1872, when Charles Perkins, with the financial backing of his father-in-law, A.E. Jackson, started up a modest enterprise wholesaling strawberries and grape plants from a farm in Newark, N.Y. Today, Jackson & Perkins is a full-service nursery offering all kinds of flowers, trees, shrubs, ground coverings, bulbs, decorative garden gifts, tools, garden accessories, plant care products and, of course roses. Over 3 million roses and other plants are shipped to customers every year.

The Harris Seeds Company

The Harris Seeds Company began its catalog operation in 1879. It evolved from the efforts of Joseph Harris, an English immigrant who became extremely successful in the selection of superior strains of vegetables and grains. Remaining in Rochester, New York since 1879, Harris Seeds markets vegetable and flower seeds as well as plants and growing supplies to gardeners and professional growers throughout the USA. Harris Seeds conducts extensive vegetable and flower variety trials in Rochester as well as many other areas of the Northeast.

Seeds of Change

In 1989, Seeds of Change started with a simple mission: to help preserve biodiversity and promote sustainable, organic agriculture. They sought to do this by cultivating and disseminating an extensive range of open-pollinated, organically grown, heirloom and traditional vegetable, flower and herb seeds. This is still their mission.

Park Seed

Park Seed is the home of Whopper Vegetables and has the biggest selection of annual, perennial, herb, and vegetable seeds for American gardens! We've also got annual and perennial plants, bulbs, and fruits, as well as garden supplies from seed-starting equipment to statuary.

The Cook's Garden

The Cook's Garden is a place where gardening is a pleasure for both the gardener and the cook, a place to grow both vegetables and flowers together, for the simple delight of watching them blossom and fruit, and the pure pleasures they provide to family and friends once prepared for the table.

White Flower Farm

White Flower Farm, for almost 20 year's has been introducing a wide range of seeds, plants, bulbs, tools, and supplies, and the best selection of structures (both protective and ornamental) in the industry.

Miller Nurseries

Miller Nurseries brings you one of the largest selections of fruit and nut trees, berries, grapes and much more. Choose from 65 varieties of apples, all types of berry plants, cherry, peach, nectarine, plum and pear trees, including Asian pear varieties. Surround yourself with ornamental bushes and roses, flowering and shade trees, asparagus, persimmons, currants, gooseberry plants, paw paws, garden aids and more!

Shriener's Iris Gardens

Shriener's Iris Gardens has dedicated the last three generations and more than three-quarters of a century to breeding and growing the finest Iris in the world. It's their dedication to quality and constant improvement of the tall bearded Iris that has earned them numerous national and international awards.

Caladium World - Online ordering only

Caladium World has been supplying high quality caladium and Elephant Ear bulbs to the United States and the world for the past fifteen years. Thousands of customers return each year, raving about Caladium World's beautiful plants and asking them for more.

Vermont Bean Seed

Within the pages of the Vermont Bean Seed you will find the world's largest bean collection, delicious and nutritious gourmet specialty vegetables, culinary herbs and beautiful and unusual flowers. Be confident the seeds you plant are healthy, hearty, untreated and not bio engineered. Their 2002 catalog provides food for the mind and soul as well as the body.

This is my brother Brent's site. He grows some of the best hard neck and soft neck garlic north of no where! Every fall he has several hundred pounds of non-treated garlic for sale that also makes for great cold tolerant garlic seed. Shoot him an email to get on his mailing list.

GardenSecrets.com Garden Club

This is a new concept in gardening clubs that I am creating. Basically it is a gardener's buyers club and we solicit discounts from name brand and otherwise important garden supply sources for our membership. Membership is free and we are building our base now. Take a look and join if you like, you make opt out at any time!