Pinetree's New Seed Catalog for 2026

 

 

I'm just finishing up putting the garden to bed, so I'm ready to start dreaming and planning for the 2026 garden year.

Luckily, Pinetree Garden Seeds always has their Catalog for the next season ready to go in late November.  This is actually early, even for them, I think.  I'm ready! 

Here are the first few pages which have their exciting new offerings.

 

 

Visit their site to see all of their seeds, and to place an order.

https://www.superseeds.com/ 

Seed Companies

I've gathered a list of twenty two seed companies for you to peruse online, and order their catalogs if you wish.   My sidebar list should be helpful if you're looking for particular varieties, or want to compare prices.

Everyone has their favorite companies, and you can find may lists of recommendations at this time of year.  Many of my own favorites and those I've seen recommended by others are on the list.  Make good use of this as a resource whether you're new to seed starting or are already quite seedy.

Renee’s Garden Seeds

Renee’s Gardens no longer has a paper catalog.  All of their offerings are online.  The catalog is rich with unique flowers, herbs and vegetables.

They offer a huge variety of seeds that are perfect for containers or small spaces.

https://www.reneesgarden.com/

In The Mailbox: Jung Seeds and Plants

https://www.jungseed.com/

In The Mailbox: Select Seeds

In The Mailbox: Johnny's Selected Seeds

https://www.johnnyseeds.com/

In The Mailbox: Burpee Seeds, Plants, Supplies

https://www.burpee.com/

In The Mailbox: Territorial Seed Company

I'm giving a post to each of the new seed and plant catalogs as they arrive.  I've scanned the covers and what's new for 2020 for each to give you an idea of what is offered.

There's a link to the company site in each article (scheduled posts so there's something new each day).   You'll also find links on the sidebar.

I'm including here companies I've ordered from myself and liked.
Happy Dreaming!

https://territorialseed.com/

In the Mailbox: R. H. Shumway's 2018 Illustrated Garden Guide

In today's mail, a new catalog for 2018 from R. H. Shumway.  They're celebrating their 148th year.  Owned, according to Dave's Garden by Jung Nursery, they have their own unique personality.

Opening the catalog is like a trip to the past.  Color and black and white drawings fill the pages, and the fonts lend the air of gentler times.  There are many old varieties of seeds and AAS winners of today.  Ha! The catalog pages are huge, and beyond the ability of my scanner to get the entire page.

I like the "Lazy Housewife Pole Bean"  The original heirloom from the 1800s!  One of the first beans to be completely stringless--there is little work or time involved...thus resulting in the name.  Use as a snap, shell or dry bean, depending on when you harvest.  Medium-green pods are 4-5 in. long with distinctive shiny, white seeds.  75-80 days.

Garden Catalogs: Early Arrivals

It is bitterly cold as it hasn't been in ages.  Luckily, a gardener need never despair, or care about the current weather.  The new year's garden always lies ahead, and seed and plant catalogs fuel dreams of warm air, blue skies and sunshine.

My favorite catalog so far is from Park Seed.  The color photographs of the plants are larger and more stunning than ever.  They offer plants as well as seeds if there's something you'd like to try but don't feel confident growing from seed.

The dream plant from this catalog for me would be Rosa La Park.  I haven't grown roses for a long time, but maybe just one more try.

Jung Seeds and Plants

This year the Jung catalog is bursting with trees and shrubs and perennials that I'd love to impulse order.  Look at the cover. I'd love to try every one of those except the corn.  (Tragic things happen to corn when I try to grow it.  Last year the entire plants were just carried away by something.)   I'm not giving up forever, but I'm taking a break from corn heartbreak.

Top pick here will be Sparkling Stars Pink Astrantia

Although you can find many Burpee seeds in stores, their catalog is gorgeous and packed with such a variety of beautiful things.

Top pick here is Morning Glory Party Dress

Just arrived in today's mail is the Territorial Seed catalog.

I have such good results with their seeds.  They have a broad selection of herbs, vegetables and flowers.  Some of my favorite annuals the past couple of years have been nasturtiums, which trail beautifully from hanging pots all season.

Nasturtium Night and Day will be a stunner, I know.

Gurneys offers fruits and vegetables.  They make me wish I could grow grapes ( I tried once, of course I did).

So since we're dreaming, I'll pick RazzMatazz "the world's first continual fruiting grape."   "Easy to grow in a container."   That would solve some of my former problems in which the grapevine tried to take over the world.

Garden Planning For 2017: Seed Companies

I'm preparing for spring, one of the happiest things a person can do.  Mondays in November I'll post some of my strategies for dreaming of next year's garden in advance.  

I'm thinking of ordering from just a few seed companies for 2017.  I'm looking for nice varieties of vegetables, herbs and flowers.  Most companies don't have their catalogs for 2017 ready yet, but I'll be watching for them.

I'm not certain if I'll make a preliminary list of things I know I want to grow, then look at these companies catalogs to see who has the most appealing selection and price, or do what I usually do and just look through their catalog making a wish list then paring it down.

Renee's Garden

Renee's has new offerings every season which are often stunning, even if the item is a lowly vegetable.  She also specializes in smaller varieties which can be grown in containers, something I really enjoy more every year.  There are even sets of seeds on themes, individual packets in a larger packet.   As you can see on her page there is also a Cookbook.

It's now online only with no physical catalog.  There are updates about new plants and seeds on everyone's favorite Twitter feed      https://twitter.com/reneesgarden


Park Seed

I actually haven't ordered from Park for awhile, but they have a huge variety of vegetable and herb seeds in particular that I'm going to peruse for 2017.   They have also always had some of the best seed starting supplies anywhere.

Get a look at some of their featured items on Twitter:    https://twitter.com/ParkSeed


Nichols Garden Nursery Herbs and Rare Seeds

I love growing herbs, and have been trying to use them as well in cooking.   What I need to find is a list of the most common herbs used in cooking and make sure I grow those.  I also like the idea of growing a tea garden, and making tea with nice fresh herbs from my garden.  I think Nichols can help me with these ideas.

Up to date information on their offerings and lots of recipes on Twitter:   https://twitter.com/NicholsGarden

They have some odd ads in their Twitter Feed, I'm not sure what that's about.


Stokes Seeds

The Canadian seed company made a greater effort to appeal to the home gardener last year with a beautiful catalog featuring the best flowers, vegetables and herbs for home gardens from their vast seed list.  They've also been featuring garden tools and ornaments that are useful and fun.

Alas no Twitter page for them that I see.

Stokes Seeds 2016 Gardening Guide

In a rather grand surprise, Stokes Seeds 2016 catalog has a new look and focus.  Stokes has always seemed to me to be largely aimed at people with small farms.  This year, as you can see on the cover, they embrace the "foodie" crowd who love locally grown, fresh foods.

The truly beautiful new page layout includes not just cultural information, but some recipes.

"For those of you who may be familiar with our catalog in the past, this catalog may come as a shock.  We have selected only the most popular varieties to make your choice easier, made the print bigger, and provided a picture for every item.  If you can't find an old favorite check our website, we have literally thousands of varieties that we could not fit into this one book."


http://www.stokeseeds.com/home.aspx


 

2016's First Garden Catalog Pinetree Garden Seeds

Pine Tree Garden Seeds is my first mail order catalog arrival of the season.  Last year, for some reason, I didn't receive one till March, and the seed starting season was well underway.

I did my best job ever of garden cleanup and putting the garden to bed this fall.  I also decided I would start completely fresh with the garden in spring 2016.  I tossed tons of stuff, including all old seed packets, all seed and plant catalogs, and any plants or shrubs deemed unworthy.

My plans for what I'll feature and grow aren't even at the glimmer stage yet, but I'll see what catalogs and offerings come my way.  Plants and herbs and succulents in pots were so beautiful this season, and so easy to maintain, I'll surely add more containers.

Let spring dreaming begin!

http://www.superseeds.com/

Pinetree Garden Seeds

Pinetree Garden Seeds and Accessories "The Year Round Resource for Home Gardeners since 1979"

Pinetree Garden Seeds offers seeds in packet sizes that make sense for the small home garden.  There may be anywhere from 20-150 seeds per packet depending (I think) on seed size and typical germination rates.  If you ever feel guilty getting a packet with more seeds than you could plant in a lifetime, this is the place to go.

Offerings:

Vegetable seeds
Mushrooms, sprouts, microgreens, grains
Flower seeds
Books
Soapmaking
Garden products (such as seed starting supplies, floating row covers, etc)
Spring bulbs, tubers & plants

The writing style is informative and conversational.  Cultural information for each plant type is presented at the beginning of each section, with additional tips for use in individual descriptions.  Heirloom varieties are clearly indicated.  Each plant has a small picture by its description.

As far as I can see they do not have any of their own introductions, nor do they feature new varieties at the beginning of the catalog as many companies do.   Actually they do have an introductory page which mentions one particular variety, but it is really more of an index.

I love the huge variety of vegetable and herb seeds available.  If you're like me and are in the mood to try a wide variety of new plants this year, start here.  Their catalog comes out nice and early so you can get your order in.  You don't want to wait till January and have all the good stuff be gone, right?

Their catalog is free at www.superseeds.com

Note:  As you can see I found my copy of Onward and Upward in the Garden.   This is nothing like Katherine White's work.   I did get the idea from her, and perhaps someday if I keep going through dreamy garden catalogs, looking at them a bit differently and critically I might get better.  I'm already planning to put my seed list for the year in an Excel Spreadsheet, and it occurred to me tonight it would be fun to pick one variety from each catalog that all carry and compare the description.  High gardener humor, I know.

Seed Catalog Reviews

I'm suddenly interested in Heirloom Seeds this year so I have requested catalogs from several new companies.  Since I have numerous days of NaBloPoMo left, I thought I would do some catalog reviews.

If you've been gardening as long as I have and you read garden writers with great pleasure, you may be familiar with Katherine S. White.  She was married to E. B. White but her personal claim to fame was writing about gardens and plants and garden catalogs for the New Yorker. These were compiled into Onward and Upward in the Garden, a lovely book.

I can't match her writing of course, but I have always wanted to review garden catalogs.  They are so distinctly written.  Some have beautiful prose and make such a gorgeous picture in your mind (this in addition to the photographs).   The most wondrously described plants and seeds are for vegetables, I feel, because they make your mouth water with those descriptions.  Sometimes.

I'm looking for:

Good writing

Detailed cultural information

When to harvest

How to use

Botanical names as well as common names

New and unusual cultivars

Specialties of the nursery

Garden tools, seed starting supplies

Advice advice advice.

I think I'll do them as they come in which means I'll start tomorrow with Pinetree Garden Seeds catalog.