Dollar Seeds – Heirloom Garden Seeds for $1
Dollar seeds make it possible to grow a surprisingly big garden without spending much money.
At Dollar Heirloom, our seed packets are just $1 each. Vegetables, flowers, herbs and old favorites sit alongside varieties you may never have grown before.
That’s the idea behind Dollar Heirloom: good seeds at a price that makes it easy to grow more.
Plant a few tomatoes. Grow flowers for the bees. Give cucumbers another shot. Try something you’ve never grown before.
For a dollar, there’s not much reason not to.
Whether you’re planting your first raised bed or filling a garden you’ve been growing for years, our dollar seeds give you room to experiment without making every packet a decision.
Vegetable Seeds for a Dollar
There is something different about eating food you grew yourself.
Start with vegetables you already love, then add a few you’ve never tried. Our vegetable seeds include tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, beans, squash, carrots and plenty more — all without spending several dollars on every packet.
If tomatoes are part of the plan, browse our tomato seeds or read our guide to growing tomatoes from seed.
You don’t need a huge garden.
A few containers, a raised bed or a sunny corner of the yard can produce a surprising amount of food.
Dollar Flower Seeds
Flowers make a garden better.
Grow them for color. Grow them for cutting. Grow them for bees, butterflies and other pollinators. Or grow them simply because you like walking outside and seeing them.
Our flower seeds make it inexpensive to plant generously.
Fill an empty corner with zinnias. Tuck marigolds between the vegetables. Try a flower you’ve never grown before.
When the seeds cost a dollar, you don’t have to think quite so hard about it.
Dollar Herb Seeds
A small herb garden may be one of the easiest places to start growing your own food.
Basil, cilantro, dill, parsley and other herbs don’t require much room, and many grow beautifully in containers near the kitchen.
Browse our herb seeds or start with our guide to growing basil indoors.
For a dollar a packet, you can grow several different herbs for less than the price of a couple of bunches at the grocery store.
Why Do We Sell Dollar Seeds?
Because seeds shouldn’t be the expensive part of gardening.
We keep our packets simple, our operation efficient and our prices low.
We’d rather help someone plant ten varieties than make them choose three because every packet costs four or five dollars.
That changes how you garden.
Try another tomato. Plant an extra row of beans. Give the kids their own corner. Grow flowers between the vegetables. Plant enough to share with a neighbor.
Some things will grow beautifully. Some won’t.
That’s gardening.
A Dollar Makes Experimenting Easy
One of the best things about starting from seed is the enormous variety of plants you can grow.
You’re no longer limited to whatever plants happen to be sitting outside the local garden center in May.
You can grow different tomato varieties, unusual peppers, old-fashioned flowers, herbs you’ve never cooked with and vegetables you may not find at the grocery store.
Dollar seeds make those experiments easy.
If something catches your attention, add it.
A garden doesn’t have to be perfectly planned before you begin. Sometimes the packet you add on a whim becomes something you grow for the next twenty years.
Heirloom Seeds Worth Keeping Around
We have a soft spot for heirloom and open-pollinated varieties because gardens are about more than producing food.
Seeds carry stories.
Many varieties have been grown, saved and passed from gardener to gardener for generations.
Growing them puts another small piece of that history back into the ground.
If you’re curious about the terminology, read our guide to heirloom vs. hybrid seeds or learn more about open-pollinated seeds.
You don’t need to become a seed expert before planting anything.
Choose something you’d like to grow.
Put it in the ground.
See what happens.
New to Growing From Seed?
Don’t overcomplicate it.
Seeds need the right temperature, moisture, light and time. Give them those things and they’ll usually take care of the rest.
Our seed germination guide covers the basics.
If you’re starting plants indoors, read how to start seeds indoors.
If your seedlings start stretching toward the window, our guide to leggy seedlings explains what happened and how to fix it.
And when they’re ready for the garden, transplanting seedlings will help get them outside successfully.
Things won’t always go perfectly.
Every gardener has killed seedlings, planted something too early, forgotten to water or discovered that rabbits apparently enjoy the garden just as much as we do.
You learn. You replant. The garden grows.
How Much Garden Can You Grow for $1?
Quite a bit.
A single packet can become a row of beans, dozens of flowers, a patch of basil or enough tomato plants for the average backyard gardener.
That’s what makes a dollar seed packet interesting.
The packet is small.
What comes out of it isn’t.
Ten dollars can give you ten different things to grow.
Twenty-five dollars can create the beginnings of a remarkably diverse garden.
Start with what you know you’ll use, then leave a little room for curiosity.
Grow More for Less
A packet of seeds contains possibility wildly out of proportion to its price.
One dollar can become a row of beans.
A patch of zinnias.
A summer’s worth of basil.
Tomatoes picked warm from the vine.
That’s what we like about dollar seeds.
They make it easier to grow more, experiment more and share more without making gardening expensive.
Most importantly, they make it easier to stop planning quite so much and start planting.
Plant something.
See what happens.
— Dollar Heirloom