10 Cost-Saving Seed Bundles to Kickstart Your Spring Garden
Seeds are the starting point for beautiful, productive gardens. Though you can source potted seedlings in spring, starting crops from seeds is rewarding and budget-friendly. You’ll have ready crops before most other gardeners! Save money this year by bundling your seeds—these 10 bundles are perfect for beginner, intermediate, and expert gardeners.
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Seeds can quickly grow expensive! Though they’re cheaper than potted plants, buying many quickly adds up. This is especially true for new gardeners without a backlog of seeds. Rather than reusing old ones, you’ll have to source each crop, from tomatoes to chives!
Bundles are a cost-effective way to collect all the varieties you need. The Mini Garden collection is perfect for gardeners with small spaces, while the Organic Vegetable Garden bundle is ideal for growers starting a large veggie garden! These are some examples of the 10 types Epic Gardening offers today.
When you purchase Epic Seeds, you invest in crops that easily germinate, readily thrive, and heavily produce. They come with a germination guarantee—if they don’t sprout, the Epic team will work with you to source new ones.
Without further ado, here are the 10 bundles that will save you time, effort, and money this growing season.
Herb Bundle
Herbs add flavor, texture, and dimension to cooked and fresh dishes. They’re also essential for creating flavored oil, butter, and bread. The herb blend contains five necessary herbs for making pesto, pickling brine, or a salad.
This mix includes chives, dill, basil, parsley, and cilantro. Chives are perennial onion relatives that sprout thin green shoots with a mild, sweet flavor. Basil is perennial in warm zones, though most gardeners cultivate it as a summer annual. Dill, parsley, and cilantro are annual or biennial, dying after a season or two of growth.
These five herbal plants need some time to grow indoors before they’re ready for transplanting. Start them a month or two before your last frost date, and transfer mature seedlings outdoors after your region’s last average frost date.
Flower Bundle
No garden is complete without flowers! They attract beneficial insects like predators and pollinators. The predators feed on pests, while the pollinators ensure your crops are fruitful and productive. Some species, like squash, depend on pollinators. Others, like tomatoes, don’t need pollinators but benefit from their presence.
Find nasturtiums, marigolds, zinnias, sunflowers, and bachelor’s buttons in the flower blend. These heat-loving annuals are perfect for tucking in between other crops. You may also create a pollinator space full of flowers and no other plants! No matter how you want to design your yard, flowering plants are ideal for filling empty spaces.
Bachelor’s buttons, though gorgeous, are weedy in states like Oregon, California, and Missouri. Limit their spread with routine deadheading. Snip the spent blossoms before they form seeds, and you’ll prevent them from sprouting in nearby ecosystems.
Tomato Lovers Bundle
Who doesn’t love tomatoes? They’re delicious, productive, and easy to grow. There are more than 10,000 tomato varieties, and choosing one is extremely difficult! Rather than limiting your options, opt for the tomato lovers bundle that has five choice varieties.
When purchasing this blend, you’ll receive the following seeds:
- ‘Tropical Sunset’ Cherry Pole Tomatoes
- ‘Carbon’ Pole Tomatoes
- ‘Chadwick Cherry’ Pole Tomatoes
- ‘Brandywine Pink’ Pole Tomatoes
- ‘Container’s Choice’ Red F1 Bush Tomatoes
There are two main types of tomatoes: bush and pole. Bushy types are low-growing with many stems, while pole cultivars prefer to grow upward on trellises or cages. This mix offers both types so you can try each and determine your favorite. The best tomato to grow is one you enjoy eating!
Squash Bundle
Like tomatoes, squash are heat-loving crops that grow well during warm seasons with long days. There are two types of squash: summer and winter. They both grow at the same time, from late spring through fall, though winter squash is more cold-tolerant during the fall season.
This squash mix has both types so you can try each one. It has the classic summer cultivars ‘Golden Zucchini’ and the green ‘Cocozelle.’ It also includes the winter hybrid ‘Honeybaby’ that grows teardrop-shaped squash with creamy, savory-sweet flesh.
Squashes sprout off of long, twining vines that need room to grow. Let them scramble up a trellis or arbor, or have them ramble along the ground in raised beds. I like to use the indigenous three-sisters method; it’s a tried and true style of growing corn, beans, and squash in small spaces.
Eat Your Greens Bundle
Do you need fiber? Greens are an excellent source of fiber, minerals, and vitamins. They’re essential to a healthy diet. They’re also incredibly easy to cultivate in small spaces. You can even grow some of them indoors!
The best leafy species to plant are those you enjoy eating. This eat-your-greens blend includes longtime favorites like kale, cabbage, arugula, lettuce, and spinach. Spinach and lettuce are ideal for indoor growing, while the other three perform best under cool weather outdoors.
Because leafy greens excel quickly, they perform best during early spring or fall. Cabbage and kale will thrive in spring, though they form better crops from late summer through fall. You may plant them in early autumn in regions with mild winters for a harvest period from winter through spring.
Roots Bundle
Root crops grow tender, juicy roots for harvest instead of fruits or aboveground vegetables. They’re ideal for cheating the seasons, as they’re cold-tolerant and grow best from direct sowings. Rather than starting these veggies from seeds indoors for transplanting, you’ll plant them outdoors where you want them to thrive.
Carrots, beets, and radishes are the three best root crops for beginner gardeners. The Epic roots mix contains all three! You’ll find two carrot cultivars, ‘Mokum’ and ‘Rainbow,’ as well as ‘German Giant’ spring radish and ‘Ruby Queen’ red beet.
Start the season with radish seed, then tuck beets and carrots in after you harvest big red radishes. These crops, like leafy greens, grow best in fall or spring when the weather is cool, moist, and mild.
Organic Vegetable Garden Bundle
The organic vegetable garden blend is the best bang for your buck! It contains every crop you need to start a veggie plot. Whether you’re restocking your seed pantry or starting a new garden, this mix has all the basic veggies you need to cook and preserve.
You’ll purchase these 10 organic seed varieties:
- ‘Slow Bolt’ Arugula
- ‘Blue Lake FM-1K’ Pole Bean
- ‘Ruby Queen’ Beet
- ‘Double Yield’ Cucumber
- ‘Rosa Bianca’ Eggplant
- ‘Freckles’ Romaine Lettuce
- ‘Patio Pride’ Snap Peas
- ‘Spookie’ Pumpkin
- ‘Golden Zucchini’ Summer Squash
- ‘Carbon’ Pole Tomato
Make the growing process easy by starting your plants according to the seasons. Sow greens, root crops, and peas outdoors in early spring or fall. Germinate tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers indoors in late winter, and transplant them outdoors after the danger of frost passes in your area.
Other species like cucumbers, beans, and pumpkins grow best when you start them outside in late spring or early summer. They need a long growing season with warm temperatures and long days.
Lettuce Bundle
Lettuce is a favorite green for many gardeners and farmers. Though it doesn’t cook well, it lends a nice crunch to salads, sandwiches, and burritos, and is essential for fresh dishes. This mix is perfect for growers who don’t want to fuss over kale, cabbage, and arugula. It’s also ideal for lettuce lovers who can’t decide which variety to grow!
There are five main types of lettuce: butterhead, crisphead, leaf lettuce, romaine, and summer crisp. This mix has every kind except for summer crisp, or Batavia lettuce. Easy to germinate, quick to grow, and ideal in cold weather, lettuce is the perfect choice for beginner growers.
Sow seeds outdoors a month or two before your final frost date. You may also start them indoors, though lettuce seedlings are sensitive to transplanting. Cultivate them in early spring or fall. Alternatively, directly sow them from fall through winter in regions without frost. They’ll easily grow indoors under grow lights at any time of year.
Mini Garden Bundle
Are you gardening in raised beds or containers? You can grow plenty of crops regardless of the size of your yard, balcony, or patio. The mini garden blend allows you to have flowers, fruits, veggies, and herbs in one container or raised bed. These four varieties tuck in easily in the 3-minute wooden raised bed kit. You’ll have all you need in nine square feet!
Start this spring with tomatoes, peppers, basil, and bachelor’s buttons. The flowers lure pollinators to increase your pepper and tomato harvests, while the basil prevents pests from coming near your tender crops.
If you’re starting a container garden, consider planting each species in a separate pot. Though these plants are perfect for small spaces, their roots appreciate extra room to spread and roam. You may plant all four in a container with ten or more gallons of space.
Pickling Garden Bundle
Fermenters, canners, and picklers unite over the pickling garden bundle! It contains every plant you need to stock your pantry with deliciously pickled goods.
Find the following varieties available together for a low price:
- ‘Ruby Queen’ Beet
- ‘Double Yield’ Cucumber
- ‘German Giant’ Radish
- ‘Mammoth’ Dill
- ‘Cantare’ Bush Bean
- ‘Soundwave’ F1 Jalapeño Pepper
- ‘Rainbow’ F1 Carrot
Combine multiple varieties in a single can or jar for a pickled medley, or keep each veggie separate and flavor them with dill and jalapeños. No matter how you decide to pickle these varieties, you’ll enjoy growing them in raised beds, in-ground beds, or containers. They readily germinate and thrive from early spring through fall.
