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While a young boy in Wisconsin in mid-winter, when January and February rolled around our mailbox was filled with colorful gardening and seed catalogs. This still is a reminder that spring is just around the corner. Those catalogs are much more numerous now and are just as welcome. Here are some links and resources to help fill your mailbox with these welcome signs of spring.

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April is still the time to order spring seed catalogs! 

Springtime in your mailbox!

If you want to get a jump on your spring time gardening, order your seed catalogs 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 nieghbors and grow the biggest tomatoes in the hood!

Come on now, its April already, plant a seed or two!!

Sometimes all you have to remind you of Spring is a photo! 

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Free Seed Catalog Links 

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 contact me with the same information I have displayed for the catalogs listed! Cheers! Chris
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 Request Page
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. Gardeners and cooks ourselves, we 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 wifes sister Carol works 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.
Territorial Seed
At Territorial Seed you'll find a dedicated staff of people who understand and care about growing plants from seed. They take pride in knowing that their customers are growing and nourishing themselves with the best tasting and finest performing varieties in the world
Wildseed Farms
Wildseed Farms is the nation's largest working wildflower seed farm, where you can purchase wildflower seeds direct from the grower.
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 PRODUCE AND SEEDS
PEPPER JOE'S PRODUCE AND SEEDS 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 pesty bugs at a minimum. We refuse to use synthetic insecticides, herbicides, 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 Nursey
Henry Fields Seed and Nursey have been supplying home garden enthusiasts with seed and nursey 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. This summer, 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 in September, 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, pawpaws, 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
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.
Wildseed Farms
Wildseed Farms is the nation's largest working wildflower seed farm, where you can purchase wildflower seeds direct from the grower. The catalog features seeds for over 80 varieties of wildflowers, regional wildflower mixes, exotic garden varieties, and herbs.
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 bioengineered. Their 2002 catalog provides food for the mind and soul as well as the body.
PlantSeeker.com
Something a little different, Buy, Sell, and Trade Plants from Around the World. PlantSeeker.com is a free site devoted to horticulture where you can exchange, sell, and buy plants by posting and managing your own classified ads.
GarlicMan.com - Northern Grown Gourmet Garlic Seed
This is my brother Brent's site. He grows some of the best hardneck and softneck 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 clus 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!

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