Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a sucker for seeds. Lots and lots o’ seeds. And one of my favorite suppliers of seeds is a small heirloom house called Baker Creek, headed by Jere Gettle and his wife, Emilee. They’ve been a big supporter of Garden Betty since the beginning and have sent me countless seeds to try in my garden every season.
Their homegrown operation has a feel-good family vibe to it, and since we’re all family here, I want to share this awesome and generous giveaway from Baker Creek with you!
You’ve probably seen Baker Creek mentioned here and there on my blog — I grow plenty of their offerings, from the traditional to the exotic. But mostly the exotic. I love the selection of seeds at Baker Creek, which comes from over 70 different countries. Thumbing through their beautiful catalog of 1,400 seeds is both delight and torture at the same time — delight because I want to grow everything I can get my hands on, and torture because my garden simply isn’t big enough.
Baker Creek specializes in non-hybrid, non-GMO, non-treated, and non-patented seeds. This is about as pure as you can get. Their seeds come from small farmers and seed growers, and not from Monsanto-owned Seminis, which supplies many of the big-box stores. When you buy from Baker Creek, you’re not only supporting a family business, but also taking a stand against GMOs.
In my experience these last few seasons with Baker Creek seeds, I’ve had close to 100 percent germination and a garden full of healthy, productive plants. Since they’re open-pollinated, I’m also able to save many of my own seeds from the plants I’ve grown. My personal seed vault contains over 250 packets filled with thousands of seeds!
Want your own seed vault? How about one that comes in a nifty, sturdy bucket, brimming with over 25 different vegetables — 60 varieties in all — chosen for your specific climate?
For one lucky winner, Baker Creek will be giving away their Large Seed Collection (retail value $99), tailored for northern or southern climates. The assortment includes several types of vegetables, flowers, herbs, cover crops, and fruits and berries, and will keep for up to 10 years if stored properly. That’s 60 heirloom seed packets to start your spring off right! Incredible, yes?!
How to enter: Simply leave a comment below and tell me which Baker Creek variety you love, or would love to try this season! To receive an additional entry, follow @gardenbetty on Twitter, and leave a second comment below indicating your Twitter username. You have two chances to win!
The giveaway will end at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time on Friday, March 23, 2012. Winner will be drawn at random and announced the following week. Good luck!
Giveaway Rules
- Giveaway begins March 19, 2012 and ends March 23, 2012.
- No purchase is necessary. To enter, leave a comment on this blog post.
- Only US residents ages 18 and older are eligible to enter.
- Two entries allowed per person.
- Odds of winning are based on number of entries received.
- Winner will be drawn at random.
- If winner does not respond within 48 hours after time of contact, that entry will be forfeited and a new winner will be drawn.
This post is brought to you by Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that support Garden Betty.
Update: A big thanks to everyone who entered!
This giveaway is now closed. The winner has been announced here.
I love the Costata Romanesco – when you slice a small one for stir-fry, the slices look like little flowers, and the taste is wonderful! The big ones are also tasty – I overlooked a few – those were cute up and put in my minestrone, and were also wonderful.
Never used your seeds, but would love to try may hand a Tomatoes
Excited as always for the purple tomatillos!
I love the different color carrots and tomatoes from Baker Creek. We live in the norther region (hint). Thanks. We love Baker Creek 🙂
I love Baker Creek Heirloom seeds and all you stand for. I have a neighbor who I have introduced to your company and seeds and together we will forge ahead, save our seeds and save our heritage. This is my second yr. growing your heirloom seeds and I have had great success. Thanks for the great work you do! I want to try ALL of your herbs in the coming years.
What a great giveaway..love Baker Creek. Been browsing their catalog and getting ready for planting. Large collection..south please:)
Would love to try the Pear Melon!
Ohh.. the scarlet runner beans would be great.
Love Baker Creek! I would love to win the seed packs!
I just read about the lemon drop peppers, and they’re adorable! I’d love to try them out.
I have a seed obsession myself. The second I saw that big beautiful bucket of heirloom seeds I instantly smiled 🙂 Incredible is right!
I love the Tigerella Tomato, great producer and taste! I would love to try the Ashkahabad Melon! Thanks for hosting the contest!
Just staring to plant seeds. Would love this give away to start my vegetable garden!
I would love to try the long beans this year and the purple smudge tomato! There book said the long beans would do better in my humid hot claimant..
I am ALL ABOUT HEIRLOOM seeds! I WANT THIS!
I love the varieties in the Baker’s Creek catalogue especially the winter squash and tomatoes…plan on growing a few myself this year and am looking forward to the Zucchini Rampicante and the Kamo Kamo both of which are summer squash that mature to winter squash later in the season…I like that I can use them as either one.
I would love to try the Pink Banana – I mean, come on! Its pink, and its a banana!
Flamingo Pink chard!!!!!!
What a great color, love it.
I’ve had great success with Baker Creek seeds too. Looking to try Delicata squash among many others this year.
would love to win this. thanks for the chance.
I love the Black Mountain watermelon–doesn’t require a long season, and the resultant personal-sized watermelons are TO DIE FOR!
I would germinate myself with joy if I won! 😉
Blue speckled tepary!! I just love all that Baker Creek does for Heirloom gardeners.
Orangelos. . .pretty, sweet, crisp and prolific
Do you have a
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. catalog that you mail out ? Would love one !
My kids are carrot lovers and were truly excited to see the many colors of carrot available – red and purple being the clear favorites! We’d love to give them all a try!
I would love to try the Four Oclocks! My granny grew them and loved them!
I’d love to try any of the northern collections.
Hi! I love Baker Creek! I haven’t planted anything from them yet, but I have purple tomatillos on order from them! That is one thing I would love to try!!
I love the st. Valerycarrots. So sweet and tender. Easy to grow in every soil type!
So many things I want to plant to feed my family real, wholesome homegrown goodness!!
II would love to try the purple tomato Paul Robeson. It sounds delicious! I have had great experience with Baker Creek seeds.
My favorite is the green zebra and and of their other striped tomatoes. Also LOVE LOVE LOVE the Listada Eggplant! 🙂
I have Spring Fever and these seeds would come in pretty handy since Spring is finally here !
We just placed our first order with Baker Seeds! I can’t wait to plant and grow some ground cherries!
since moving out to the ‘country’ i am so excited about planting a garden this year now that we have a little bit more land to plant on–I got their catalogue and really wanted to give their purple/blue (i am color blind when it comes to those colors) a try, i think it would be neat to have colorful tomatoes, i am a huge home grown tomato fan (does anybody else remember the home grown tomato song by John Denver–one of my childhood favorites) and am so disappointed that my son refuses to eat them (then again he hasn’t had home grown only store bought so I can see why he thinks he doesn’t like them) and was hoping that having different colored ones we could show him that tomatoes do in fact taste good–anyhow, not to ‘steal the spotlight’ but since i couldn’t log in on my blog or anything to post I thought I would mention if you are interested in following any of our new little adventures of trying to live a healthier lifestyle feel free to follow us either on our blog (thefamfarm.blogspot.com), our facebook (just look for the FAM Farm) or on webpage (thefamfarm.webs.com) as this is definitely going to get back to our farming roots
I want to try “Moon and Stars” melon this year.
Last year was my first time planting seeds from Baker Creek and I really enjoyed the egg yolk tomatoes and the trail of tears beans.
Beautiful catalog is right! 🙂 I would LOVE to try the southern mix… *hint hint!* 🙂
Oh, yeah, I’m trying the Ali Baba watermelon this year, too!