Seeds at Wal Mart

I like Seeds of Change, did not know Walmart stocked them.

Thanks.

Now that Walmart has them, you can bet that the quality and selection will go down.

Just bought this years seeds from My Patriot Supply, who's connected to this site. All heirloom, large quantities for low prices. Nice folks to deal with.

I bought some of the seeds of change seeds at WM the other day. I don't need a lot of seed this year thanks to seed saving but I like to try other things just for the fun of it. I will be starting some of my seed in the next few days. I have had good luck with the American Seed that I have bought at WM and the dollar store.

Does everyone here buy from WM? just another pretty face! By from a local seed producers with good quality product. There are many small seed producers, you will get much better quality produce.

Look for open-pollinated, heirloom seeds if you want to save seeds from year to year.

Hybrids may produce better looking vegetables, but they likely include the Monsanto "Terminator Gene," which will sterilize the seeds of your vegetables and not allow you to generate your own seed from year to year. If you're into subsistence, hybrids are not a good choice.

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The only local seed place round here that I know of sells in bulk to the farmers. I don't want bulk and I don't want GMOs and treated seed.

So I buy mostly from all kinds of sources-- mail order, I trade with people on-line, and I do buy some from the shops in town if something catches my eye. I save my own seeds too.

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Just got a boat load of seeds from home depot, didn't pay more then $1.59 a pack. Was going to order them through the catalog but why pay the shipping ,I am sure the HD ones are the same.

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There is no terminator gene, the research done on it was not by Monsanto, and did not involve vegetables.

There are no GMO vegetable seeds and none have ever been made available to gardeners.

Martin

Seeds of Change was bought out by Mars candy company, which fired all the employees and closed down the experimental garden.

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Some Walmarts and Lowe's sell Burpee Seeds.
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Mars bought Seeds of Change in 1997 which was on the verge of bankruptcy. All employees were retained at the time. The research farm was discontinued in 2010 for economic reasons. There was no interest from other companies to purchase it.

Martin

At the moment, our local WalMart only has Burpee despite being listed as a Ferry-Morse outlet. Hard to compete with a full "catalog" just over a mile away with a Jung's store.

Martin

Southern Exposure Seeds have high quality heirloom seeds.

Seeds are just like everything else, you get what you pay for...

Buy from local farmers who have been saving seeds for generations if you can find them. If not buy quality feed from some of the smaller companies that sell the heirloom seeds and plants. They do make a big differance in the quality.

You can read some of Jackie Clay's articles in back issues of BWH to find out how to save seed so that they don't mold and will be viable for the next year.

Happy Gardening!

In truth, a lot of those get their seeds from larger contract growers. Some types of vegetables are such that you can only grow one variety to assure purity standards. If one offers 10 carrot varieties, they are getting 9 from other sources unless a lot of acreage and labor is involved. The common varieties are available cheap because somebody may be growing an acre of one variety and have 500 to 2,000 pounds of seeds available to retailers. If that grower is the only one growing a variety for wholesale, and it fails, it's simply not available for that year. Most recent example is shortage of purple hull pinkeye cowpeas. Very limited supply to all retailers since the main wholesaler had a crop failure. That's how it goes with the vegetable seed industry.

Martin

May I recommend: http://www.turtletreeseed.org/

These people do grow their own seeds or they contract it from small private growers. It is not purchased from big wholesalers and it is definitely, emphatically not GMO. I am personally acquainted with this company and they are very good people. You not only get good OP, biodynamic seed, you are also helping disabled people who work to produce and process it. :-)

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