The Sample Seed Shop

ONE: VERY IMPORTANT!!! Because of planting and preparations for the plant sale, ORDERS made now through next SAT the 25th will NOT be filled until the following Monday.
Exceptions will be made for very small emergency orders of say you need a packet of squash, but please put a note in the instructions to merchant.

TWO: If you have not ordered before, we recommend you read the GENERAL INFO, SHIPPING, Etc page before ordering.

THREE: iPads (definitely)and iMacs (maybe, give it a try,) especially when using Safari as a browser, seem to be losing orders i.e. you put 10 things in your cart, and then your cart goes poof! We can not fix the problem The cart pages are controlled by PayPal and not us. We have contacted PayPal. They so far have not figured out the problem. Don’t keep trying to make an order over and over. If it isn’t working for you, it isn’t working. So either try a different browser, or wait until you can use a computer (Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome as a browser works best,) or copy and paste your items to an email (I know PITA, but think of it like the old days when you had to hand write out an order and mail it) and we will bill you the appropriate charge.
Thank you for your patience! We appreciate your business.

The Plant Sale will be Sat. May 25th, 9-4 (no early birds please!) at 978 Riverview Blvd. in Tonawanda.
All extra tomatoes, other veggies, herbs,  annuals, perennials will be for sale. I will dig perennials if you are looking for a particular item and I have extra. I will also have The Hookery shepherd hooks for sale too. I will have singles and doubles like these(click here,) wall mount and deck mount ones too (click here.) These are are the really good ones!
Plus, a regular garage sale will be going on at the sale time.
Stop by and say hi!

You may be new to this site and wondering if it is a legitimate place to order from.
Here are links to sites where customers have spoken:

• Dave’s Garden Watchdog reviews Click Here
• Tomatoville Thread on The Sample Seed Shop. Click Here
• GardenWeb Rate and Review Click Here
• (GardenWeb Rate and Review thread of Remy personally Click Here)

Because of your great reviews we have been in the Garden Watchdog top 5 for Perennial Seed and Tomato Seed for 3 years, and we are also in the Watchdog 30 list of best companies overall at the Garden Watchdog!

THANK YOU to those of you who have taken the time to write reviews! Your voices help keep cost low because less is spent on advertising.

Hi All,
I’m happy to offer you sample size, quality seed at an inexpensive price. Even at such good prices, you will get bonus seeds with your order! And you might notice some of my sample sizes contain more seed or the same amount of seeds in packets at other sites.
How is that being done?
~The seed packets are not fancy printed ones, just great seed in simple packets. The internet has such a wealth of knowledge about any plant you wish to grow; everything is a Google search away. If a search doesn’t help, I’m here to answer your questions too.
~There is no paper catalog. I know some people like to peruse a paper catalog at their leisure. I’ve found the site does print nicely, so you can make your own catalog.
~I work on this web site myself. All photos are taken by me unless otherwise noted. (All photos taken by me, be they good or bad, are my property. You can not use them without my permission.)
~My office is in my home, so there is less overhead cost.

I hope you find some interesting new seeds for your garden on this site. Please know that varieties will change throughout the growing season, so check back again soon.

To get all of the information about the seeds, shipping, other policies, please go to the General Info and Shipping Page.

Thank You for choosing The Sample Seed Shop!

I will be speaking to the Slow Food Buffalo Niagara group on Monday March 25th about seeds and seed starting.
Thank you to all of you who came. I hope you enjoyed it!

For those of you that are local, I will be having a plant sale on Sat. May 26th, 9-4. Heirloom tomatoes, perennials, etc will be available. Email SampleSeeds@yahoo.com if you need more info.
Hope to see you there!
Remy

Update~ Thank you to everyone who stopped by! Hope to see you next year

Please sign the Survey/Guest book, Click Here. There are just a few easy questions to help us better serve you, the customer. If you want to just leave a note, you can do that too!
Thank you!

The festival kicks off this weekend. There will be happenings all summer. Click Here to see the National Garden Festival web site. Part of the festivities will include the Ken-Ton Gardens Tour which I will be a participating in. This will occur Sat. July 23 and Sun. July 24. The information is on the Tonawanda web site, Click Here. When it is closer to the date, where you can pick up maps will be made available.
My garden is not some grand garden worthy of a trip, but the whole day of checking out gardens would be fun. If you’re in the area, stop by and say hi! The following weekend is the big shebang, the Buffalo Garden tours with over 350 gardens to chose from.

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who came to visit!

For those of you in the western NY area, I will be teaching a seed starting class at Niagara Wheatfield on Monday March 7, 2011. It will include seeds to take home. For more info please check out the PDF brochure by Clicking Here.
Hope to see you there!
UPDATE: The class was a success. Thank you to those of you attended. I hope you have great success with your seeds and garden this year!

A little inspiration for those of you who have never attempted this before. Photos are from today. I need to start working on separating all my babies.
……………………………….Nicandra

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