Check out Burpee if you want to see high prices. $6.50 for 15 seeds and $5.95 for 10 seeds. That’s ridiculous. Larger tomato transplants at the grocery store here were $10 back in the Spring.
Good Lord . . . .
Thank you for reminding me why I don’t buy Burpee’s anymore. Jeepers!!!
If other companies follow suit, plant breeding might become a survival skill.
Those high prices might drive people back to heirloom seeds, so that people can grow their own.
I don’t know where you are, but I got some great tomato and pepper plants from our local 99cent store here in Rancho Cordova CA (near Sacramento.) The Early Girls are producing abundantly, the Beefsteaks are also doing just fine, I screwed up the sweet peppers but the serranos, jalapenos, habaneros, and cayenne are going gangbusters. All for 99cents each plant, sales tax free cause they’re food.