Luke I received my book you signed. I cried, no one ever has called me their hero. I told you that I suffered 4 strokes just over a year ago. Recovery has been hard, but as I said I didn't grow anything this past year, but what I will say I'm growing in containers and I'm excited about it. I ordered and received my seeds and now collecting containers. I can't wait! By God's grace I survived and I went home. Now I hope to grow big this coming season. Thanks! 😊

I recognize that I’m a seed collector. It’s an obsession. At least it’s not teacups. I love growing my food every year.

Every gardener heard you say, "...you can't fit everything..." and every gardener thought to themselves, "Challenge, Accepted!"

I have no self control when it comes to buying or acquiring seeds. It's a weakness I don't think I want to overcome 😪 😅

Only buying what you eat is a lesson I learned many, many years ago!!

Hi. My name is Ke Le and I'm a seed-a-holic! I don't have too many seeds, I just don't have enough land!

I tell my husband I MUST have seeds ❤️ all seeds. I I must add we live in a one bedroom apartment. The owner of the apartment complex gave my husband and me the side yard for our plants. We r lucky

Luke, I’ve always felt you were transparent and good hearted. I shop here before I shop anywhere else and have bought seeds from you for a few years now. So happy to watch you (and your family) grow your dreams and encourage others.

I found you a few years ago. I was hurt, out of work, depressed. I started a garden and struggled but I started listening to your tips and it's improved the last 2 years. 2023 will be even better. I container garden in my apartment patio. Thank you so much

In 2021 I grew tomatillos from a seed packet I bought in 2012 (9 years). Then this last summer a bunch of tomatillos came back as volunteers from 2021’s fallen fruit! Total win.

Really good advice, Luke. I moved to a new state and could not find a community garden with a fence (welcome deer, elk, and neighbors). I started late in the season and in a 4 foot wide row, that I rented, I grew as much as I could vertically to allow sun to hit my other plants. I obtained sticks, twine, cages and anything I could find to grow melons and squash vertically. I even saved onion bags and knee high nylon hose to support the weight of the fruit when growing vertically. Some of the immigrants to the USA taught me a lot about using innovative ways to conserve water and use tree branches. What a wonderful learning curve on innovation and my garden is thriving. Every year I learn something new. This year I started succession planting.

Luke it’s so nice of you to be honest with us instead of just trying to sell your seeds. Great ideas on this video!

Is this the introductory video to the "Seed Buyers Anonymous" group? 😉 Just joking. Great tips!

My daughter and I both put in seed orders on your 2023 season opening day. We both wanted self-blanching cauliflower, but neither of us needed 300 seeds (even though I use seeds for several years) so I bought that, and we'll split it. She bought something else with a high seed count that we'll split, but I don't remember what it is right now.

I appreciate the fact that you caution about over buying seeds. I always want to buy three times as much as what I can actually use. I went ahead and bought my MI 2023 seeds so I can get started on some of the leafy things now. (which I usually forget to buy until things are mostly sold out. lol)

I just placed my first seed order with you guys! I grew up gardening with my pappaw and am so excited to have one of my own now

I just ordered seeds from you, just enough to fill in the gaps in my seed box. :) Gonna see what the wild Oklahoma weather kills this year!

You’re totally spot on talking about only buying seeds of things we KNOW we’re going to eat if we grow them. Making it more of a habit as the years go on. Good reminder for all of us.

Oh sharing this with the hubs. My addictive shopping is power tools his is seeds.

Love the tips! Especially number five. If you don’t like it, don’t grow it. Thank you for being honest! Love the seeds I get from you. High quality, great packaging and the website is easy to navigate. Keep up the great work. It is appreciated.

Luke, I ordered seeds from you last year and already this year, and I really appreciate the way you handle your business. $2.00 a pack and no shipping with orders over $12. Awesome! This year, I ordered some varieties I want to try but wouldn't have paid $4 a pack for them somewhere else. I can't wait to see what a Black Krim tomato tastes like, or a Kellogg's Breakfast or an Armenian cucumber. Thank you so much for your excellent business model! Great tips in your video, but zones do matter with onions! Short day, intermediate day, long day. I'm in zone 8a (short day) but right on the edge of the intermediate zone, so I can grow either. Much success to you! You've worked hard for it!

I like to pick one thing I haven't tried every year just to see if I like it.

I miss my fresh lettuce 😭. Going to try inside again especially after hearing there is a lettuce shortage. Not hip on commercial grown at all, plus too many recalls and I think we have enough sickness floating around that we just don’t need it from our food as well.

So hard to buy good seeds here in Cambodia. So I go to the local market get what ever fruit/vegetables I want to grow and use the seeds. Cheers!

I mainly do container gardening. Mostly 5 gallon bucket and 27 gallon tote sip's. Watermelons do well in sip containers. You just have to have the right variety, Sugar Baby, which also do well on trellises.

Thank you Luke!🙂 Now that it's out of the teens (°), I'm getting the itch for more seeds! HappyDance! Blessings! 💚

Excellent! Know which seeds last for a a few years and how to store them. I am growing tomatoes from seeds I bout 7 years ago.

I used my extra seeds as a Christmas present for my niece. I also share seeds with my sister in law.

I recently ordered $60 of seeds from you and I want to sincerely thank you for keeping the prices as reasonable as you do. I was able to get a diverse variety that I am really looking forward to growing this summer. THANK YOU!

Wonderful recommendations! "Growing zone" might actually apply, e.g., gardeners in Florida can't grow cool-weather loving plants for most of the year, and can't grow some plants at all. The same holds true for plants in far northern states: can't grow citrus out of doors in Maine, for instance. Plants have much narrower temperature tolerances than humans when it comes to reproduction, meaning making blossoms and setting fruit/going to seed: peppers and tomatoes are heat lovers, but if the weather is too hot for them they just hang on, without making any fruit. And if the gardener is unlucky, then in that gardening year the too-hot weather might last late enough in the year that no peppers or tomatoes get harvested by that gardener. The "Zone" most people are talking about when they ask if they can grow tomatoes in, say, 6a or 8b, is their Cold Hardiness Zone which as you rightly observe is intended to tell the gardener or homeowner-landscaper whether that flowering crabapple tree will survive the average coldest temperature of the winter in that specific location.

Don't tell me how to spend my money!!! I feel so attacked lol. I think I hit every single "don't do this" you said.

Before I found you on KZfaq years ago, I had no idea there were so many varieties of seeds! I just bought the same old, same old seeds at Wally World. I didn't know about starting seeds ahead of time indoors, in cold climates (I'm in MN). Your taught me almost everything I know about gardening. As far as over-buying seeds shhhhhhh don't ruin my fun ;)

Your seeds are starting to show up in the FB Gardening groups in the Philippines. People are so excited to see varieties they have never seen!

Thank you for your seed store. The prices are great and shipping reasonable!! Very refreshing!! Just placed an order!!❤️

I just placed my first order. I'm excited to get started. I'll plant my peppers and tomatoes inside in starter pots on February 2nd here in Arizona.

Hi! Luke and Sindy and the team, thank you again for my seeds that I ordered months ago. I had been ordering seeds from Mi gardener fow a while, and I have to tell you that I am fully satisfied with all the seeds I purchased from you. All the seeds I have sown few years ago and lately this year are Awesome/ healthy seedlings and produced plenty either for salad or fruits vegetables. And I will order again in the future. Happy gardening every one January is coming very soon.

I decided to take a break from sorting out all of my Migardener seed collection when I found this video! I am seeing what percentage of Migardener seeds are of my total seed collection. Certainly at least a third, possibly more! Thanks for all of the wonderful variety and special sales. Lol! Also enjoying the dad jokes on Facebook!

Really good advice Luke. Thank you for what you have done for gardening! It must be incredibly satisfying knowing you are educating so many people on how to live healthier! I know I have learned a lot. Well done 🤠

Excellent advice. Everyone should watch this before ordering seeds.

Another useful video. How about one on which of your seeds do well in containers and which seeds can be stored the longest?

Right before you recommended not overspending on seeds, I was literally wondering how much it would cost to order one of every packet on the wall behind you...

I make room in my garden for 2 new varieties. Last year I got one eggplant from a neighbor I didn't think I liked them but it was free. It was my third most productive and my family loved it.

Great advice & knowledge! Thanks for sharing! Growing zones are tricky when you have some sheltered areas & some where the wind exposure is cooler, too. I’m in Alberta, Canada, fairly close to the Rocky Mountains & our season is short. But my daughter has huge greenhouses now, so the heat loving crops thrive in them. Blessings to your family 🤗💗🇨🇦

Budget? Noooo. Seed retail therapy is how I get through winter. Lol. Good thing I share seeds and they also last more than one year.

Love the new store...watching your channel for a long time.

This was the first year that I totally lost two gardens to these crazy temperatures..ill cut off the poor dead plants and will start a new in a month. Have a blessed New Year!! I forgot to say that all gardens were wiped EXCEPT...parsley? They basically told the 17 degree and 30 mph sustained winds "hold my beer" amazing!!

Thanks for your kindness ! On the topic of garden space, I have a tip for those who have more, like, lawn space, but which they don't exactly want or feel able to turn into a dedicated garden space just yet : U can grow squashes/pumpkins there, anyway, probably ! As long as you're ok with making a hole in the ground for the plant. Add some compost to it, mulch around the plant with cardboard and mulch, like grass clippings, hay, whatever. Leave the lawn in between as-is and carefully move aside vines to mow as long as you can, or put down black plastic or some sort of mulch, either quite deep or with paper or cardboard under it. Helps to mow grass twice in 2 days, to weaken, along with shorten, it 1st. Obviously, doing this means you're killing your lawn-grass, but if the reason u were otherwise limiting your garden space to what u had, thinking you didn't have enough resources to enlarge it or begin another one. To begin this way, needing only a little compost and hopefully free or low cost mulches, and possibly not fencing,(depending on your deer), this could help ! May have to put chicken wire/wire rabbit fencing protection ( maybe even a plastic jug with top cut off & some air holes punched into sides after weather gets hot) around each squash plant until they're far enough along the rabbits leave them alone. Anyways, this could help u keep your main garden space all available for other things. This idea also can be similarly used in planting on the edge of your garden, letting the vining plants sprawl onto lawn, and on the garden side, into your potatoes or anything else they won't bother much or be in the way ( I dig my potatoes at end of season).

Great video, 👍 I appreciate the run down on zones vs season windows, I was sweating the timing on some of the things I want to grow. Very helpful, and I will check out your seed selection !! ✌️ ☮️ 🕊

Great info for newbies 👍

This year in Kalamazoo, 2022, we had a super late first frost. I had tomatoes until November or later.

Thank you for keeping these seeds affordable and sharing on how to grow food. My garden has really pulled us through these food insecurity days.

Great video Luke. I am so guilty number 1, but it's ok because I do donate plants. You can grow a 🍉 in containers I have done it and takes time, patience and trellises.

Excellent advice. If I haven’t grown something before I will only get one packet of that kind of seeds. If I like them, I can save seeds or get more seeds for next year.

I start my peppers and indy tomatoes mid October. Works great for me here in Charlotte, NC. It gives me a 5 MONTH head start. Look, if you overwinter your pepper plants, start the seeds then too! Duh! Those giant crimson seeds I got from you are doing amazing! 100% germination. 8" tall already! Can't wait to share them with an herb society I speak to a few times a year.

such good information

I had 7 kids swimming pools and it grew the best carrot s and beets. I canned carrots and beets. i am 80 so enjoy

Some really great advice. Thank you. We will be going into our 4th year of gardening since moving here. One thing we do have is the luxury of space, but are still amending and building up the soil, so we're expanding every year. We're at a stage right now where we're buying and trying a lot of varieties to see what will grow best here, and which we like the most. We also like to try new things we don't find in grocery store, just to see what they taste like. If we find we don't like them, we just won't grow them again. When we were still in the city and growing on our balcony, we didn't have that luxury!

With GREAT respect to MRS. MIGardener...(and my own gorgeous and wonderful husband)😜 Luke, I am positively swooning over your wealth of knowledge and your sharing it all these years with us in your videos. This one couldn't come at a better time. I am working on what seeds to purchase for my spring garden here in North Florida. For anyone reading this, I first purchased some of family MIGardener seeds for my fall garden this year. Not a dang one disappointed. Every seed I planted germinated (and I bought several)! Also, I love their packaging. Several reasons include: size, much more compact than ones I've purchased from other companies so saves space in my seed organizer and in my opinion helps with less environmental waste. The beautiful photographs, the textured matte (non-glossy) finish, and the clear growing info. on the back. I am one of those people who tends to jump ALL IN on my hobbies (my husband can attest to this). I have an extremely hard time deciding on what flower/veggie seeds to purchase (and yes, sometimes because of the beautiful pictures😂). Mainly though because there are sooo many plants and varieties of those plants that i've never even heard of but want to try once I've seen them. This comes from my Dad because as a kid we planted (just the basics) some tomatoes, okra, peas, marigolds, beans and radishes in our small backyard garden. When you have tasted FRESH veg that you have grown yourself, particularly tomatoes, there is no better on the planet. Ya'll, i used to take a salt shaker out with me, dust off a tomato on my shirt and eat that thing like an apple with an occasional shake of the salt, or eat peas and beans straight off the vine as well. Sadly, my Dad passed many years ago but a couple years ago I had a life change where I HAD to start taking time for myself and I remembered how much I loved gardening with my Dad and wanted to do it even more now. For nostalgia, for peace, and for helping to feed my own family. So you can see how I don't think of budgeting FIRST. Thanks Luke for reminding me I don't have all the money in the world, 🤣 God Bless you and the entire hard working MIGardener crew/family and the folks here online. May we all have a wonderful and prosperous garden in the new year! GROW BIG!

Thanks Luke, been there, done that, literally turning over a new leaf! Great information and love your very genuine heart for gardening and fellow gardeners! 💚😉

I really appreciate your approach to gardening & your desire to do right by your viewers. Thank you for remaining so down-to-earth all these years.

I’ve been gardening for 20+ yrs and I’ve never learned the distinction of growing zones applying only to perennials! Brilliant light bulb moment! Btw I’m having my behind handed to me here in Tx. I grew up growing in Ca and it’s EASY but here west of Fort Worth….nope starting all over like a newbie. Thanks for the great info!

thanks for the info on zones, never used them before and didn't understand them. I don't usually grow perrenials, so they won't apply to me.

Thank you, Luke, for all these great tips. You inspired me to garden 4 years ago! 😊 Blessings to you and your family.

I am newer to your channel and gardening…there are many reasons I purchased seeds from you in November…and I made mistake 1&2 in this video but I’m happy to have supported your business because of the integrity you continue to show (one of the reasons I wanted to buy from you). Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us

Hey Gardeners, I am trying something new this year as I live in a studio apartment with south facing window. I am on a tight budget. Last winter I grew salad greens in my apartment so that I always had living food for my diet. I had enough to share with my neighbors. This year I am growing micro tomatoes, red peppers, basil, spinach...in my window and some under grow lights, to reduce my grocery budget, have the joy of plants, and eating my nutrients every day. I purchased my seeds on Amazon since they are not available locally. Last winter, zone 6b, I grew raspberry bushes in my window and harvested small, but sweet, raspberries in February. Think outside the zone and care for yourself in the Winter!

Thanks Luke! You’re info is always great. I ordered my new seeds from MI Gardner can’t wait for them to get to my home.

Your honesty is refreshing. Thank you for the tips and your more then fair pricing of your seeds. Your business is thriving because of you, your wife and all of your employees. Thank you everyone.🌱🍆🍅🥬🌶🫑🧅🥕🌽🧄🥒🌻🌼🌷🌹🌱

Excellent advice, grow in New Zealand 31st year on the same site, spent 24 years raising children and working fulltime away from home for 12 years, now work from home last 7 years, have more time to garden, and no need for 2 beds of potatoes 2 beds of carrots. Now am experimenting with different vegetables, but am married to a fussy eater, so am able to grow 7 different cauliflower, 7 different cabbages, 4 different broccoli. But he doesn't like beans, but I do, so grow 2 seeds of 5 different varieties, carrots have to be orange and beetroot red. Have started seed collecting, due to seed failures. Parsnips especially, last years parsnip seed head was destroyed by the wind, had to use the 2 year old seed, sowed thickly the one row, had to thin it. Thinking after the carrot failure this year, how old is the seed they are selling us in New Zealand.

Thank you for your help and video I’ll check for the old tomatoe that you have

Started a garden this year, have appreciated all the information in your videos, plan on ordering my seeds from you for the spring. 👍

Wow Luke, the store looks beautiful! Great info from one of my favorite gardening channels! I hope you and your family had a very merry Christmas and I hope you have a great new year!🎉😊🌱🌿

What you said about growing zones and growing seasons- glad you differentiated between the two. Very helpful information ☺️

Your passion warms my heart! Thank you for your honesty and information.

Hi Luke, I'm not sure when exactly I started to follow your channel . But I has been a very good experience. After my third year of gardening in 2022, I opened a second bed . It'll be my first year with garlic and can't wait to see the result. Your comment about cost of plants vs seed Is a very good one . Although I still lack a bit bit of confidence in starting from seed I will watch a few videos that you posted on the subject . If you can recommend one that would be awesome . BTW I prefer bush beans as well 🙂. Thank you

Hi Luke! I noticed several gardeners on KZfaq sharing seeds they purchased from your seed store. I will be checking out your website. And thanks for sharing the do's and don't on purchasing seeds. Very helpful info.

So many great info, I actually have to watch in increments and go think about what you just said and go try it! Thanks for sharing.

Oh, Luke! You are reminding me of all of the seeds I still want to get! Asparagus, and, and, and! lol

My favorite store for seeds and one of my top 3 channels

...too many seeds - guilty ...seeds for vegetables plants that I don't have room for - guilty ...bought seed then changed my mind and bought a different variety - guilty I think I need to phone a friend!🤣😀

I've never spent so much time looking at produce but your site and produce is so beautifully laid out it was hard not to,I hate not having space as these would just be lovely to grow.Good job 👍

I spent about $20 getting a few seed packs, some rare varieties, you'll get more trades with those, and then traded them for TONS of different seeds for FREE (sometimes for a stamp or stamped envelope) on FB Groups I'm in! And then I seed save and trade again!! It's so fun!!

As far as small garden space goes try to follow the Mexican/Italian rule of thumb. Can you turn most of your garden into salsa or pasta sauce jars? Both are much needed, both have crappy cheap mass producers with no flavor, and both are easy to make and can. Even with squashes and eggplant, you can make a canned eggplant Parm.

Luke totally enjoyed your book, I found it to be very informative and unlike any other gardening book I’ve read! I’m enjoying this video about seed mistakes one can make when buying seeds especially at this time of year when one is inundated with catalogs. Although I’m a seasoned gardener I’ve found your KZfaq channel informative and surprisingly I’ve learned quite a bit. Thanks for all you do. Good luck with the growth of MIgardener and a very happy new year to you and yours.

Great points and exacting what I started doing for this new season, thank you Luke.

I would like more choices for Rhubarb seeds.....Canada Red, Colorodo Red, Kangaroo etc

Love your channel! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

Luke I've been watching your vids for years now. You're as enthusiastic as ever & have grown your passion into a wonderful business. Looking forward to learning & growing more thru you. 😊

I have a small backyard so my neighbors don't know it yet but I'm expanding to their yards. Lol!! They'll be excited and on board cause they get to keep the food.

I'm excited to start planning my 2023 garden. Last year was my first year and it didn't go well, mostly because of neglect. I have so many questions. Your videos have been helpful. I'm going to dig deeper (figuratively) this winter as I plan. Thanks for all the great information you share.

Thank you for making seeds affordable! I checked many other websites and they were all double the price of yours. They came quickly and everything was correct. Great job over there!

Excellent video. You are so genuine and down to earth. I’ve bought seed from you three times now and will continue to as well. Such an informative video. Thank You.

Love your business and honesty and passion.

I just bought seeds from you today online and I’m glad to know I have this video for future purchases but I love your videos there so informative and very welcoming.

Great tips! On the flip side though, this year I grew things I had never even eaten before. Nothing went to waste & I found a love for new produce in eating fresh, dehydrating, canning & fermenting.

Awesome video! I love the idea of seed shopping with a friend!

Great tips Luke!

Thank you so much for the information!!! I found out about your company through Becky from Acre Homestead and I am so glad I did. I love that you are based in MI, like myself so a lot of your advice applies to my own environment. I am a very new gardener and this year I took the plunge to start in containers to try and make it easier on myself to learn, and boy have I had an excellent learning curve this year 😀. I look forward in learning and growing more in the coming growing years to come!!

Growing season vs. Growing zone. Thanks Luke. Knowledge is power!

Good video! Thank you for pointing out the benefits of a garden club. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 12/30/2022.

I just placed my first order with you while watching!! Super excited. Been watching you for a few years but took a break from gardening last year and I’m ready!! Even container gardening from seed is so much work. Can’t wait to try the Ananas Noire Tomato.