Johnny's Selected Seeds 2026 Catalog

 

Another early entry in the seed catalog dream pile is Johnny's Selected Seeds.  They focus on small scale growers, the sort you might buy from at a farmers market, and "serious home and organic gardeners".

You'll notice many of their packets contain as many as a thousand seeds.  You'll find an excellent selection of tools and greenhouses in the catalog as well.

Here are the new seeds for 2026: 

 

The page was a bit hard to scan at the fold.  Visit Johnny's site for their full catalog, with many more new flower and vegetable seed listings:

 

https://www.johnnyseeds.com/ 

 

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/ 

DOA In The Garden: Hudson Valley Seed Company

 Hmmpf. After getting my Park Seed order in those ratty plain foil type packets, I'm going rogue and purchasing artful packets and new seed types.  Hudson ValleySeed Company has Art Packs of seeds with gorgeous illustrations such as this one for Catnip.  Suitable for framing!  I ordered this and four others.  I'm happy now.

 

 

https://hudsonvalleyseed.com/collections/art-packs

DOA In The Garden: Tasha Tudor Seeds

 I just found out about this seed collection from Tasha Tudor's Estate. What fun!  Old fashioned varieties in work of art seed packets.  I ordered four individual packets myself.  They are selling out fast!

 

https://tashatudorandfamily.com/collections/garden 

 

 

Seed Babies Part 2

Here they are! Onions, lupines, feverfew, hollyhocks.

I ordered three blueberry bushes from Jung's this morning.  I also wanted to get a few everbearing strawberries, but they didn't seem available as plants and I have not had good luck with seed.

I'll need to check locally over the first few weeks in April when the greenhouses I hope will be open.   I'll also be looking for some more herbs of all kinds and I think this year I will need to try to manage to learn drying and preserving herbs rather than just snipping them fresh from the garden and using them that way.

I'm focusing on vegetables that I'll be able to freeze or can.   There's supposed to be plowable snow by tomorrow morning, if not, I think I'll try to start a few peas and radishes out in the garden this weekend.

The way the world is going I'd like to be able to grow wheat in the yard, but pretty sure that's impractical.

Happy Gardening!

Babies!

Monday night I was discouraged because nothing had come up and I turned off the lights on my light stand, figuring to start anew on Tuesday.

Bing!   Hollyhocks Nigra and Happy Lights were sprouting, along with the Baby Leeks Primor!  Yaaaaaaa!  
We are up and running, 2020 garden!

Hollyhock Nigra and Happy Lights

Baby Leeks Primor. Look close!

Both rows of the stand are now in use.  Red and Yellow Onions, in today, as well as Feverfew and some Windowbox Cherry Tomatoes.

Toon Tuesday: Spring Dreaming

The answer is always YES.

Off The Rack: A Few New Seeds

I made a foray to get a few seeds and new seed mix.  Though I've tried to pare down on tomatoes in the past few seasons, I went for those.

My eight rows of Peas which were decimated last year are going to be tried again.  Mr. DOA is vowing to plunge some sort of extra protection under the ground near the veg fence this spring to prevent plundering.  Thumper cold be thwarted!

Always reliable Supersweet 100

A few herbs.  Parsley is showing up in lots of recipes.  We love Cumin.  I always grow Basil.

Although I never have luck with California Wonder peppers, try, try again.  I really want Pole beans rather than Bush Beans this year.  The Bush Beans were also decimated.  Fly you high, little beans!  

I haven't had as much luck with Morning Glories as I'd like.  I haven't tried these varieties before.  This time I will start some inside and some outside and see how they do.

Toon Tuesday: Seed Babies

There could be only one theme for this week-watching for the tiniest bit of a green sprouting seed.  I used Canva to create this week's cartoon.  You can provide your own pictures and change the text in a template.

Today's Starts

It looks like I will be waiting a week or so between starts to make sure I'm not getting anything up and running (hahaha) too early.

Today's choices are:
 
Lupine Russell's Prize Mix

Coneflower White Swan

Hollyhock Nigra

Hollyhock Happy Lights

Sunday Dreaming: Seed Season

March! In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb.  This refers to weather, of course, but our start today is sunny and beautiful.  It appears the Lamb may triumph this time.

I have done it!  I cranked open a sack of seed starting mix--oh, the heavenly smell of soil.  It is right after bread and popcorn on the wondrous smells list.

I started four types of seeds, just to get the party started.

French Baby Leeks "Primor"

Salad Scallions "Spirit"

Hollyhock Peaches and Dreams

Rudbeckia Irish Eyes

These are all last season's seeds, but I am certain they'll be viable.   I was a tiny bit heavy handed on the scallions, but I'm prepared  to thin as needed.   Somewhere this week I read that you can get Hollyhocks to bloom this season if they're started soon enough.  Fingers crossed!

I have a fair few more varieties of them to start.   I've been trying to grow Peaches and Dreams forever, with no luck.  Imagine if this time I see them bloom!

I think I'll try to start a few things every day till I have the top level of my light stand filled.  If it looks like I'm having successful germination, I'll go to the lower level.

If by chance nothing germinates, I'll go seed shopping.   Planting these this year is part of my plan to be more economical.  I also am unhappy with all of the diseases being passed along from horticulturally grown store items.  It should be a safe and happy thing, eating tomatoes and lettuces.

Leeks

Nicely flattened mix

Hollyhocks

It's difficult to provide covers for these long flats.

The square ones I lucked out on.

I poured water into the trays, then lowered the lights closer.  I'll need to get them down closer a notch or two, I think.

Very exciting!  Grow, babies, grow!

Seedless in Seattle (Not Really)

I decided to break the jinx and willfully not start seeds today.  There will be scallions planted tomorrow, March 1st, with plenty of lead time before transplant time outside.  March is officially seed starting month at DOA Central.

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.

Maybe Cute Isn't Enough In The Garden

I fell for these adorable little pastel eggs one year with seeds all ready to grow.  Not a peep of green!   I'll know better next time.

Nothing from these either!

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.