Where Should You Buy Tomato Seeds? An Online Catalog of Seed Vendors
Where should you buy tomato seeds?
Your local home improvement center offers a few packets on its seed rack. But selection is usually limited to a dozen or so varieties. What a shame … especially since there are thousands of types of tomatoes!
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Here’s the dirt: we’ve compiled a list of companies offering tomato seeds. The list is in alphabetical order. Each company fills a certain niche, so be sure to check what each offers and see if it matches your want or need.
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Where to buy tomato seeds: Tomato Dirt top recommendations
Heirloom and OP (open-pollinated) Tomato Varieties
For heirloom and OP (open pollinated) tomatoes, Tomato Dirt recommends TomatoFest, which offers over 600 varieties, including hard-to find and rare varieties. TomatoFest is a certified organic, family run business designed to protect the legacy and bio-diversity of treasured heirloom tomato varieties grows and harvests all of their open-pollinated and heirloom tomato seeds from around the world. Seed sales support TomatoFest Seed Donations program that donates to more than 250 community gardens, urban gardens and school gardens internationally. No Hybrids. No GMO’s.
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Hybrid Tomato Varieties
For hybrid tomato seeds, we recommend Burpee, a leading home gardening and seed company since 1881.
More tomato seed vendors: where to buy tomato seeds
Appalachian Seeds
Burnsville, North Carolina (United States)
A small, family farm producing heirloom tomato seeds and plants, eclectic medicinal and culinary herbs, and a diverse selection of heirloom vegetable plants.
Artisan Seeds
Sunol, California (United States)
Breeds gourmet vegetables (primarily tomatoes).
Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company (Rare Seeds)
Mansfield, Missouri and Petaluma, California (United States)
More than 1,400 heirloom vegetable, flower, and herb varieties; all pure, natural, and non-GMO.
BBB Seed (Bounty Beyond Belief)
Boulder, Colorado (United States)
Family-owned seed company committed to providing safe, healthy, untreated, and non-genetically modified seed to our customers
Casey's Heirloom Tomatoes of Airdrie
Airdrie, Alberta (Canada)
All seeds are harvested from Jeffrey Casey’s own backyard organic garden.
Marianna's Heirloom Seeds (formerly Pomodori di Marianna)
Dickson, Tennessee (United States)
Over 4,000 varieties of open-pollinated heirloom seeds and plants, specializing in a large offering of Italian paste tomatoes.
Ohio Heirloom Seeds
Gahanna, Ohio (United States)
25 varieties of heirloom, open-pollinated tomato varieties along with over 100 varieties of peppers, lettuce, herbs, and carrots.
Old Pueblo Plant & Seed Company
Tucson, Arizona (United States)
Chemical-free heirloom and open-pollinated vegetables and seeds.
Prairie Garden Seeds
Humboldt, Saskatchewan (Canada)
Specializes in distributing Canadian tomato cultivars, especially as part of the Canadian Tomato Project.
Reimer Seeds
Mount Holly, North Carolina (United States)
More than 5,000 quality non-GMO vegetable seeds, herb seeds, and flower seeds for the home garden and market growers, including 700+ tomato varieties.
Seedman (formerly Rachel's Tomato Seed Supply)
Gautier, Mississippi (United States)
Rare and unusual seeds from all over the world.
Seed Savers Exchange
Decorah, Iowa (United States)
A non-profit organization dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
Seedparade
Hounslow, England (United Kingdom)
Recommended by a Tomato Dirt reader! Heirloom, OP, and a few hybrid tomato varieties along with other vegetables and flowers, all offered at greatly reduced prices.
Sow True Seed
Asheville, North Carolina (United States)
An open-pollinated/non-hybrid vegetable, herb and flower seed company specializing in heirloom, certified organic, and traditional Southern Appalachia varieties.
Sweet Tomato Test Garden
Las Vegas, Nevada (United States)
Growing methods and products for desert tomato gardeners.
Tatiana's TOMATObase
Anmore, British Columbia (Canada)
Collects and shares characteristics and historical information for heirloom and open-pollinated vegetable varieties, with focus on tomatoes. Sells 4,000 varieties of tomato seeds.
The Sample Seed Shop
Tonawanda, New York (United States)
Great seeds in inexpensive sample size packets.
The Seed Kingdom
Lubbock, Texas (United States)
Vegetable seeds to home gardeners and market growers at bulk and wholesale prices, specializing in heirloom tomato seeds.
The Tomato Patch (heirloomtomatoes.com)
Highly-viable organically-grown tomato seeds with an average germination rate of 99.9%
Tomato Bob’s Heirloom Tomatoes
Hilliard, Ohio (United States)
A small family owned seed company located in central Ohio specializing in over 700 different varieties of heirloom tomatoes, hot peppers, flowers, and vegetables
Tomato Growers Supply Company
Fort Myers, Florida (United States)
More than 500 varieties of tomatoes and peppers, including huge selections of both hybrid tomato seeds and heirloom tomato seeds.
Tomato Solutions
Chatham, Ontario (Canada)
Specializes in the breeding, production, and marketing of hybrid tomato seed for the processing and fresh market industries, selling in commercial amounts only.
TomatoFest
Carmel, California (United States)
600+ varieties non-hybrid, non-genetically modified, old-fashioned and rarest heirloom tomato seeds from around the world.
The Victory Seed Company
Liberal, Oregon (United States)
A farm-based, family owned, mission-driven preservation organization working to protect rare, heirloom, open-pollinated seeds by keeping them available to gardeners. Victory emphasizes historical research and accuracy to produce seeds of the highest quality possible. Seed sales directly support Victory's preservation mission and its charitable giving program.
Whatcom Seed Company
Eugene, Oregon (United States)
A leading online supplier of rare and unusual seeds for home gardeners and retail growers.
Wild Boar Farms
Suisan Valley, California (United States)
Small, local farmer and breeder offering a large selection of heirloom and open-pollinated tomatoes, with a focus is on bi-color and striped varieties, those with extreme flavor, and unusual-looking tomatoes.
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Restoration Seeds 
300+ Heirloom tomato varieties. Organic, open pollinated, no hybrids, no GMOs, rare tomato seeds farm direct!
www.restorationseeds.com
MI GARDENER Not rated yet
MI GARDENER is someone I just discovered via his YT Channel. Sells seeds, though I don't know what kind of volume. However, he's working on one that …
Grow one, Give one. Not rated yet
MAURO Seed Co. is a mission-based seed company that sells tomato seeds. For every seed they sell, they donate one to someone in need. "Grow one, Give …
Where to buy Dwarf Tomato Project varieties Not rated yet
Seeds from the project available in the Southern Hemisphere from https://www.dwarftomatoproject.net/ and you'll find sources for Northern Hemisphere growers …
Great delivery and plenty of advice at Growseed Not rated yet
Ordered my tomato seeds from Growseed used them thanks to the brilliant grow guide they provided as well as handy info, they claim to grow everything they …
Miss Penn is the high altitude tomato expert! Not rated yet
Check out Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds at:
www.pennandcordsgarden.com
Penn Parminder has grown thousands of tomatoes, testing a huge number of varieties, …
The Rarest Heirloom Tomato Varieties Not rated yet
Renaissance Farms is a specialist in the rarest varieties of heirloom and open pollinated tomato seeds and plants. Seeds and plants are all produced using …
Twilley Not rated yet
Twilley has been a very good supplier of seeds, very fast service, usually ships next day and prices are very good.
I have never had a problem with …
Florida Seeds: Excellent Yield, Fruits Quality and Resistances Not rated yet
Tomato seeds for sale, excellent package of resistances and varieties if you plan planting tomato seeds or need grafted tomato rootstock seeds as well. …
I love seedsnow.com Not rated yet
While they don't exclusively sell tomato seeds, I buy all of my tomato seeds from seedsnow.com. They offer organic, non-gmo seeds for many veggies. I …
Sustainable Seeds has great selection Not rated yet
Sustainable Seed Co of California has a great selection of Heirloom and Organic seeds, many hard to find and unusual varieties of tomatoes and all other …
Timeless-Tomatoes has fresh seed and delivers for FREE Not rated yet
www.timeless-tomatoes.com
Double Helix Farms has big selection and nice website. Not rated yet
Small farm, with nice variety and good germination. Low prices too, free shipping. Lots of other vegetables, but mainly tomatoes.
http://www.doublehelixfarms.com …
heirloom.org Not rated yet
Bill Best has spent many years collecting tomato & beans seeds from the appalachian mountains. Has several varities of heirloom tomato seeds
Totally Tomato Not rated yet
Check out Totally Tomatoes . They've got great seeds and great customer service!
Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company Not rated yet
I have had very good experience with Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company . They have a large and varied selection. Plus they offer rare and unusual varieties. …
The Patriot Supply: great selection of tomatoes and other seeds Not rated yet
The Patriot Supply offers individual seeds as well as survival seed collections. You can use these GMO seeds to get started growing your own heirloom seeds. …
Great range and excellent service from Mr. Fothergill's Not rated yet
Mr. Fothergill's has a great range of tomato seeds for the garden, the kitchen and even for the kids.
Check out their site .
Super cheap tomato seeds in the UK, fast delivery and great germination rate too Not rated yet
Would you mind including UK seed seller to your great list?
Seedparade has an excellent reputation here in the UK. The seeds are really cheap. I found …
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