The Better and Old-Fashioned Alternative to Discount Store Seed Packets

Apr 04, 2026

(Country Girl Chronicles) - I stopped buying seeds in those little paper packets years ago.

Not because I don’t like them…

…but because they just don’t make sense once you know there’s a better way.

I’ve bought seeds from big box stores—places like Menards.

And I’ll be honest…

I’ve had better luck flipping a coin.

I know people who planted green beans and maybe ten percent came up. The rest? Duds.

That tells me one thing:

👉 those seeds are old

I don’t care what the packet says.

A few years back, when I was doing market gardening, I found something different.

A place where seeds weren’t packaged in tiny envelopes…

They were kept in drawers. In jars. In bulk.

And you could get exactly what you…