Where to find Seeds and Tomato Transplants

Are you tired of expensive Seeds of Change seeds? Not sure where to find seeds? Want to grow some beautiful heirlooms but don't know where to get them? Here's a link to a site with a great list of heirloom seed companies. http://www.halcyon.com/tmend/links.htm

My go-to company for seeds is Bountiful Gardens. They have a pretty good selection, they give a good amount of seeds for the price, a good description of seeds and are "local". But read the description of each of the seed companies and see which one you like the most. (Bakers creek, Fedco, and Sand Hills also have amazing selections.) Each company has different varieties, specialties, and even for the same variety some have shorter growth days! (Growth days are roughly defined by number of days that are 85F+ during the day and 75F+ during the night. Growing season is the number of days between last day of frost and first day of frost.)

If you'd like to purchase transplants then Whole Foods and Henry's grocery store offers a great variety of organic started herbs and vegetables through out the season. They also carry Botanical Interest seeds (which I've had a lot of luck with, even though a bit pricey.) Walter Andersen Nursery and Armstrong Garden Center are two that also have a great selection of transplants (organic and non), and is a lot closer than City Farmer's in San Diego. City Farmer's does have a great selection also, but they are a hit or MISS for me. If you can talk to Bill, then he's very knowledgeable. If you're a first time gardener, try Home Depot varieties. I like to call them "just add water" vegetables since they seem to always do well in which ever soil condition as long as you water them regularly.

For heirloom tomato transplants all the places listed above will have them. But I like to go and pick mine up from http://heirloomtomatoplants.com If you're planning on growing one tomato plant, then it'll be the same price to buy a transplant than a package of seeds and struggle to germinate them. She also has a great selection and you can pick it up directly from her in Southern Los Angeles County by appointment only.