Most seed companies are sold out of the popular stuff.
Some of those companies are shut down for the duration to deal with backlog.
I’m just hoping the cpl I still want (want, not need :) ) to buy from are open until we get our ‘plague check’. They’re small businesses & we will try to spend what we get at small businesses. Putting some up until everything else opens.
Guy up the road from us, has 2 teens, just plowed up what looks to be 1.5acres for a garden. I know what THOSE teens will be doing this summer ;)
I just got back from town. I stopped at Farm & Fleet just to see what was up. Seed supplies there are good, but this IS Farm Country, so we all have kitchen gardens, anyway. No one is buying in a panic because we all have seed to use up from last season!
I picked up about 10 extra packets of seed so I can do more progression growing this season and also extend the use of my greenhouse on the back side of the growing season. I had one order delayed, and I got it, but it had a few substitutions and some ‘freebies’ throw in there to soften the blow. Having been in ‘The Seed Biz’ for 18 years, it’s not easy to judge which varieties are going to be your top sellers from year to year. Who thought KALE would end up as such a Garden Superstar? Not me!
We’ll see how well I do. By the time October rolls around, I am usually sick to death of gardening. But I recover every Spring and do it all over again! :)
One place I’ve actually found good deals on seeds is the Dollar Tree or some other Dollar store.
Often they are 10 packets for a dollar and they have traditional varieties like Purple top Turnips and Black seeded Simpson lettuce. Stuff that will actually go to seed so you can save and harvest your own seeds for next year.